Allen & Heath CQ-12T 12i/8o Ultra-Compact Digital Mixer

General

Made for artists, bands, producers and engineers who're looking to streamline their workflow, the Allen & Heath CQ-12T 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-12T 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-12T, 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 two FX engines that can run side-by-side. 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-12T 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 ten 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.