Allen & Heath CQ-18T Mixing Desk
Dry hire day / week rate: £30.00 / £90.00 +VAT
Trade Account Holders' discount available up to 40%
The CQ-18T is an excellent sounding yet very affordable compact digital mixing desk with 18 inputs and 8 outputs. The mixer is ideal for small gigs and corporate / speech event applications, and includes many features not usually found at this level.
The control surface comprises a 7-inch touchscreen, customised rotary controls and softkeys on the mixer itself. Optionally, full remote control is available via Wi-Fi using a tablet or PC running the free CQ MixPad app (available for Apple, Windows and Android devices).
Input setup may be quicker and workflow made easier using Quick Channel mode: choose from a library of common instrument types or styles, and the surface rotary control functions switch to suit the various parameters for each choice. Alternatively, full input parameter control is available in Complete Channel mode.
Features and specifications
- Inputs: 8 x mic level XLR, 8 x mic / line level XLR / ¼ inch jack, stereo input on ¼ inch jack
- Outputs: 6 aux / monitor outputs on ¼ inch jack plus Main Left & Right on XLR
- 4 x inbuilt effects engines: reverb, delay and modulation as inserts or a shared bus
- All mic / line inputs feature compressor and gate dynamic control, high-pass filter, 4-band parametric EQ and phantom power
- 20-band graphic equaliser (GEQ) and Real Time Analyser (RTA) on all outputs
- Excellent sound quality - 96kHz sample rate as standard, XCVI Core DSP engine ( used by dLive / Avantis / SQ series mixing desks )
- 7-inch touchscreen display
- Store Show configuration with up to 100 recallable Scenes per Show
- Playback via Bluetooth stereo input
- USB interface for stereo / multichannel control
- USB port for stereo recording and playback
- Wi-Fi connection for remote control using a tablet running the CQ MixPad app
- Various assistance features for faster setup and easier mixing
- Performers' personal monitor mix setup using CQ4You Apple / Android app
Manufacturer's promo
CQ-18T promotional video
Feedback Assistant can monitor feedback on any output and apply up to 12 fixed notch filters (e.g. during setup and soundcheck) plus up to 4 dynamic live filters which will auto-reduce during a performance.
Individual performers can set their own monitor mix using the free CQ4You mobile app, available for Apple and Android devices (see link below).
Other features
- Automatic Mic Mixing (AMM) assistance for multiple-microphone applications e.g. conferences / panels
- Dedicated footswitch ¼ inch TS or TRS jack input with assignable function(s)
- Twin headphone ¼ inch jack outputs
- SD card slot for multitrack recording and playback
- 3 x assignable softkeys
- 3 x assignable rotary controls
- 4 x DCA
- 4 x Mute Group
- Quick Channel mode setup for common instrument types
- Assignable colour and name label for all inputs and outputs
- Gain Assistant: automatically sets, monitors and adjusts the gain level for one or more inputs
- Feedback Assistant: all outputs feature 16 notch filters to automatically reduce feedback frequencies
- FX Assist tool: dynamic monitoring on effect inputs and signal shaping of the output accordingly
- Effects include instrument presets for faster setup
- MIDI input and output via USB-B port or RJ45 network port
- Record up to 16 tracks at 96kHz or 24 tracks at 48kHz sample rates in WAV file format
- Record input channels, output mixes, effects outputs or Main L+R outputs
Manufacturer's information & media
CQ-18T User Guide and MIDI Protocol downloads
CQ4You personal monitor mixing app details
CQ&A video (session starts around 0:45)
Please contact us to hire an Allen & Heath CQ-18T mixing console. We serve Manchester, the North West and UK Mainland.