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Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer

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Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer
Product no: 9000-0116-2665 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

Made for artists, bands, producers and engineers who're looking to streamline their workflow, the Allen & Heath CQ-12T digital mixer enables you to work faster, mix smarter and sound better. This compact yet feature-packed bit of kit comes loaded with A&H's FPGA technology and various time-saving tools to simplify your job, if not do it for you!

Your Personal Sound Assistant

The Allen & Heath CQ-12T features a number of built-in assistants, including a Gain Assistant that automatically optimises the gain level for the preamps, countering any signal peaks in the process. Then there's the Feedback Assistant, which identifies problematic frequencies and lets you filter them out at the push of a button. Meanwhile, the Automatic Mic Mixer constantly monitors the input channels, ensuring maximum sonic clarity by getting rid of background noise. All of these helpful functions can be activated or deactivated at will, so regaining in-depth manual control is always just a small tweak away.

Intelligent Features for Superb Sound

Allen & Health have also crammed a fistful of high-quality effects into the CQ-12T, along with an FX Assistant and tools to help you dynamically incorporate them. The reverb, delay and modulation effects even come with specific presets for different instruments, and are powered by two FX engines that can run side-by-side. In addition, you're set up with all essential playback and recording options, a multi-channel USB audio interface, multi-track SD card playback and recording, basic stereo recording and playback via a USB stick, and stereo Bluetooth playback.

Control and Connections

Controlling the A&H CQ-12T couldn't be simpler thanks to the fitted 7-inch multi-touch display and tactile controls. Round the back, you'll find a mass of inputs and outputs, including ten mic/line inputs, a stereo input and six independent outputs that can be configured to serve as three stereo outputs. Lastly, this cutting edge desktop mixer can be wirelessly operated via various apps, like the CQ-MixPad for mixer control and the CQ4You app for creating personal monitor mixes.

Specifications

Product features

Sustainable product not specified
Number of channels 9 - 16
Number of analogue input channels 9 - 16
Number of analogue output channels 8
Network connections none
Digital audio inputs none
Digital audio outputs none
Number of microphone inputs 9 - 12
Digital snake no
Input connection jack (6.3 mm), jack (6.3 mm stereo), XLR
Output connector jack (6.3 mm), XLR (3-pin)
Inputs no
Equalizer none
Dynamics none
Input level meters via built-in display, via iPad / iPhone / iPod, via Android Device, via PC/Mac
Type of display touch screen, colour
Volume control automatic, via PC / Mac, via iPad / iPhone / iPod, via Android, via touchscreen
Expansion possibilities none
Built-in audio interface USB (multi track)
Built-in audio player USB, SD(HC), Bluetooth
Remote control via iPad, via iPhone, via Android device, via Ethernet, via Wi-Fi
19 inches 19-inch rack mount (not included)
Connector position front and back
Mixer power adapter
Built-in effects yes

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging) 4,0 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging) 37,0 x 30,5 x 20,0 cm

Product specifications

  • connections:
    • inputs:
      • 12x inputs (10x mono/linkable, 1x stereo)
      • 5x XLR mic/line inputs
      • 5x XLR/Jack combo mic/line inputs
      • 2x TRS stereo line inputs
      • stereo Bluetooth input
    • outputs:
      • 2x XLR Main LR outputs
      • 6x TRS AUX outputs
      • stereo headphone output
    • RJ45 network port (CQ as Client)
    • USB-A port for stereo audio record/playback & data
    • USB-B port for multichannel audio record/playback (16x16)
    • SD card reader for multichannel audio record/playback (16x16)
  • 96 kHz input/output processing
  • 2x FX Assist Engines
  • touch screen: multitouch, 7 inch, 5x physical controls
  • 3x configurable SoftKeys
  • dimensions: 29 x 24.1 x 8.8cm
  • weight: 2.4 kg

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Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer
Wrote the following about Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer
Une console faite pour aller à l'essentiel.
La machine inspire confiance. Elle possède toutes les fonctionnalités nécessaires à la sonorisation et à l'enregistrement de petites formations. L'apprentissage est rapide et on se sent très vite à l'aise avec les pourtant très nombreuses fonctionnalités. Si votre câblage est sain, je vous met au défi de trouver le moindre bruit parasite. Tous les préamplificateurs sont d'une pureté à peine croyables (comparés à ceux d'une RME Babyface !). Rapport qualité/prix imbattable pour une console 12+1 complète. Si l'ergonomie (tout numérique-écran) ne vous rebute pas, allez-y les yeux fermés !
Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer
Wrote the following about Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer
Compact en alles wat erin moet zitten, zit erin.
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