Allen
& Heath ZED60-10FX Multi-Purpose Mixer with Digital Effects
for Live Sound and Recording
Overview
Live or in the studio, ZED60-10FX is an ultra-portable
mixer for solo artists and small bands.
Based on our top selling ZED-10FX, the new ZED60-10FX
adds premium quality 60mm faders for that intuitive, tactile mixing experience.
This mixer is a guitarist’s dream. Two of the 4 mono
channels have high impedance jack inputs that can take a normal line level or a
low level input from a guitar pickup, so guitars can be plugged straight into
the mixer without the need for DI boxes. These inputs have been crafted to
recreate the sound of a classic tube preamp in a combo or head amp for
incredible definition and warmth. Two stereo inputs are provided for MP3/CD
players or keyboards.
ZED60-10FX comes with configurable USB audio in/out,
making it easy to capture a stereo recording at the gig or in the studio. The
mixer is equipped with professional XLR main stereo outputs, a flexible
monitoring section with headphone and speaker feed outputs, and 16 stunning FX.
Most important of all, ZED60-10FX lives up to the audio
and build quality standards that have made Allen & Heath one of the most
trusted names in professional audio for more than 40 years.
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:
Main Mix Left + Right (Post master Level)
Aux + FX bus (Aux is a pre-fade send, FX is a
post-fade send)
Record Bus Left + Right (Separate stereo bus to Main
Mix)
RETURN OPTIONS:
To
Playback input (through jack socket break contacts)
To Stereo 2 channel (through jack socket break contacts)
MUSIQ
ZED60-10FX features a responsive 3-band
British EQ with sweepable mid frequency that is acclaimed for its musicality,
even when applying extreme creative or corrective equalisation. All EQ controls
have been carefully calibrated for responsiveness and smooth, precise
adjustment.
ZED-FX
ZED60-10FX has an essential selection of
16 time-delay effects, designed for small groups who don’t want to carry around
an effects unit with their gear but who still want great quality FX at their
gigs and on their recordings. Our DSP engineers worked hard, crafting and
refining beautiful reverb algorithms to enhance every performance. These
effects are available nowhere else at this price point – this quality and
integration is only available from the ZED-FX. ZED effects are easily
controlled using 3 buttons with 9 display LEDs. For example, the ideal delay
time can be quickly tapped-in, or the perfect amount of reverb on the lead
vocal can be dialled-in. There is one-stop navigation and editing – in fact,
it’s just as easy as using effects pedals. To alter effects parameters, the TAP
button is held down and the up/down buttons pressed to adjust the specific
parameter for that effect, for example, the decay length on PLATE, or the depth
on CHORUS.
GUITAR DI
ZED60-10FX’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.
Feature
4 mic/line inputs, 2 with Class A FET
high impedance