ALLEN AND HEATH ZED-10 is an amazing little desk for small band mixing. It
is ultra portable for carrying to the gig, and can be used for recording live
or in the studio. It comes with configurable USB audio in/out making it easy to
capture stereo recordings
Guitars can be plugged in directly to the mixer using the
specially designed high-impedance inputs, while the mixer has two stereo inputs
for MP3/CD players or keyboards.
Equipped with professional XLR stereo outputs and a flexible
monitoring section with headphone and speaker feed outputs.
USB AUDIO FLEXIBILITY
Getting audio to and from a computer easily is now a common
requirement for live sound and music production. The way this has been
implemented on ZED is super-flexible and super-easy! No longer do you need to
fiddle around the back of your PC to get to the soundcard inputs, only to find
that the levels are all wrong and noisy. Just plug in a USB lead to your ZED,
select the USB routing on the mixer and the device on your computer and that’s
it! CD quality audio to and from your PC or Mac. Switches and connection through
jack socket terminals provide different send/return configurations:
SEND OPTIONS
1) Main Mix Left + Right (Post master Level)
2) Aux + FX bus (Aux is a pre-fade send, FX is a post-fade
send)
3) Record Bus Left + Right (Separate stereo bus to Main Mix)
RETURN OPTIONS
1) To Playback input (through jack socket break contacts)
2) To Stereo 2 channel (through jack socket break contacts)
MUSIQ
ZED-10 features a responsive 3-band, swept mid frequency EQ
design which utilises MusiQ – with optimised slope (or Q factor) for equalising
individual instruments.
GUITAR DI
ZED-10’s pre-amps are similar in design to our MixWizard
range of mixers, but with a twist! Inputs 3 & 4 have a high impedance jack
input capable of taking either a normal line level or a low level input from a
guitar pickup. These newly designed inputs have been crafted with the aim of
replicating the sound of a classic guitar or instrument tube pre-amp in a combo
or head amp. An extremely high input impedance ensures loading on pick-ups is
minimal and a Class A FET (field effect transistor) circuit powered from 48V is
employed to give the valve-like gain stage. There is a gain “Boost” switch
associated with the guitar inputs which boosts gain by 26dB to cater for
instruments with very low level outputs and the overdrive characteristics of
the guitar inputs are very similar to a valve (tube) circuit, being asymmetric
and soft. All this makes for a wonderfully natural sound to be reproduced from
the instrument, full of warmth and character
Features:
4 mic/line inputs, 2 with Class A FET high impedance inputs