ZED-10 and ZED-10FX are
amazing little desks for small band mixing. They are ultra portable for
carrying to the gig, and can be used for recording live or in the
studio.
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 main stereo outputs and a flexible monitoring section
with headphone and speaker feed outputs. In the FX version, we’ve added a
set of fabulous effects to give shimmering reverbs and enhance your
sound.
What's great
about the
ZED-10
ZED’s are great for live mixing! Their layout makes them
very easy to use and easy to achieve a great sound. They are also perfect
for recording, either a live show or an audio project at home can be built
up track by track using the USB digital audio interface.
The flexibility and quality of these
mixers make them stand out from the crowd. You can plug your guitars or
instruments straight into the class A discrete FET high impedance inputs,
cater for up to four microphones, two stereo sources with MP3 player
compatibility, separate 2-track record outputs and a stereo playback input
for 2-track replay or perhaps interval music from a CD player, XLR main
stereo outputs with inserts, comprehensive monitoring with headphones and
separate monitor speaker outputs, 48V microphone phantom power, DI level
switching for sub mixing, and not least of all, the same digital effects
algorithms as those used on our flagship digital consoles costing 150
times as
much!
Features
Inputs
One
of the great things about the ZED series is the number and variety of
things you can plug in. In addition to the sixteen mono channels there are
two dual stereo channels, each with a main stereo input on jack sockets
and with additional inputs on phono sockets. the USB return can be
selected to one of the additional inputs so that it feeds either the main
LR bus or the stereo channel.
Guitar
DI
In place of the DuoPre, the ZED-10 &10FX have pre-amps
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.
EQ section
ZED-10 is equipped with a responsive
3-band EQ with MusiQ, an optimised slope (or Q factor) for equalising
individual instruments.
Record Bus
A separately switched stereo bus can be routed to from any
channel creating a selective recording bus, monitoring bus or stereo clean
feed output. You can even route just the effects processor output to this
bus and use the mixer as a high end effects
unit.
USB audio flexibility
Getting audio to and from
a computer easily is now a common requirement for live sound and music
production. The way we have implemented this 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! Quality audio to
and from your PC or Mac. Three switches provide different send/return
configurations for recording, playback and utilising external FX.
uild
The ZED-10 has been designed using individual vertically mounted circuit
boards with each rotary control fixed with a metal nut to the front panel
- making a much more robust product that will resist damage and give years
of reliable use.
AmpliTube X-GEAR Software
Allen & Heath is
pleased to announce a partnership with leading music software company, IK
Multimedia, to bundle its pioneering AmpliTube X-GEAR software with the
newly launched ZED-10 and ZED-10FX mini USB mixers. Visit their site for
more information: http://www.ikmultimedia.com
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