ALLEN HEATH ZED10 SMALL COMPACT MIXER

ALLEN HEATH ZED10 SMALL COMPACT MIXER

ZED-10

ALLEN HEATH ZED10 is created for small band mixing, an amazing little desk perfect for them. It can be used for recording live or in the studio, its build is ultra-portable for carrying to the gigs, a small mixer that can handle your mixing experience. ALLEN HEATH ZED10 is built for making it easy to capture stereo recordings as it comes with configurable USB audio in/out.

The mixer has two stereo inputs for MP3/CD players or keyboards, while guitars can be easily plugged in directly to the mixer using the high-impedance inputs especially designed to fulfill its purpose.

It is equipped with a flexible monitoring section with headphone and speaker feed outputs and professional XLR stereo outputs.

USB OPTIONS FLEXIBILITY

Getting audio from and to a computer has never been to easy, as in live sound and music production it is very common nowadays. ALLEN HEATH ZED10 is crafted with the implementation of getting audio to and from computer, are now super-easy and it is super-flexible too! The old ways are no longer, as in this ALLEN HEATH ZED10 you don’t need to fiddle around the back of your PC to get to he soundcard inputs, just only to find the levels are all wrong and noisy. Now, just plug in a USB lead to your  ALLEN HEATH ZED10, and on your computer just select the USB routing on the mixer and the device and that’s all it takes! Capable also of CD quality audio from and to 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

ALLEN HEATH ZED10'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.

• 4 mic/line inputs, 2 with Class A FET high impedance inputs
• Neutrik mic XLR
• Neutrik 1/4 inch jacks
• 3 band EQ with MusiQ
• 2 auxes
• Sound image pan
• Illuminated PFL indicator
• Stereo returns & playback
• All inputs with level control
• 12 bar meters
• Responsive 3-band, swept mid EQ with MusiQ
• 2 stereo sources with MP3 player compatibility
• Separate 2-track record outputs
• Stereo playback input for 2-track replay
• XLR main stereo outputs with inserts
• Comprehensive monitoring
• Configurable USB stereo audio in/out
• Stereo monitor outs
• 48V microphone phantom power
• DI level switching for sub mixing
• Weight: 7 lbs