Allen & Heath CQ-18T 18i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer

Allen & Heath CQ-18T 18i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer
Product no: 9000-0116-2747

Service promise

Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year 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-18T 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-18T 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-18T, 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 four FX engines that can run at the same time. 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-18T 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 sixteen 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.

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Specifications

Product features

Sustainable product	not specified
Number of channels	17-32
Number of analogue input channels	17 - 24
Number of analogue output channels	8
Network connections	none
Digital audio inputs	none
Digital audio outputs	none
Number of microphone inputs	13 - 16
Digital snake	no
Input	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)	4,5 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging)	42,0 x 31,0 x 19,5 cm

Product specifications

connections:
- inputs:
  - 18x inputs (16x mono/linkable, 1x stereo)
  - 8x XLR mic/line inputs
  - 8x XLR/Jack combo mic/line inputs
  - 2x TRS stereo line inputs
  - stereo Bluetooth input
- outputs:
  - 2x XLR Main LR outputs
  - 6x TRS AUX outputs
  - 2mm stereo mini-jack headphone output
- Dual Band WiFi (CQ as Host)
- RJ45 network port (CQ as Client)
- USB-A port for stereo audio record/playback & data
- USB-B port for multichannel audio record/playback (24x22)
- SD card reader for multichannel audio record/playback (24x22)
96 kHz input/output processing
4x FX Assist Engines
touch screen: multitouch, 7 inch, 5x physical controls
3x configurable SoftKeys
3x configurable SoftRotaries
dimensions: 34.6 x 24.2 x 8.9cm
weight: 3 kg

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John December 17, 2025