Allen & Heath dLive mixing desk
Dry hire rate example:
dLive S5000 surface only: £185.00 day / £555.00 week +VAT
dLive DM48 MixRack only: £95.00 day / £285.00 week +VAT
Trade Account Holders' discount available up to 40%
dLive is the flagship range of Allen & Heath mixing desks. A&H have drawn on many years of experience and success with their mixer ranges. The result is a world-class digital sound console, designed mainly for a live music environment.
dLive DM48 MixRack is now available with RackUltra FX. A total of 24 internal effects engines are now available following the updgrade.
dLive is available with various Expanders for higher channel counts, and also with an Avantis mixing desk as a FOH / monitor desk package - please contact us for details.
dLive now supports the Allen & Heath 4You mobile mixing app: as many as 40 musicians may control their own personal monitor mix (4You link below).
Features and specifications
- Basic dLive comprises an S5000 Surface console and DM48 MixRack stage box
- 28 Fader strips arranged in 3 banks across 6 pages / layers, giving 168 fader strips
- Fader strips are fully assignable to any input or mix
- Up to 128 input / output ports (depending on MixRack and Expander unit)
- 16 main internal effects buses, 64 bus mix architecture
- 8 additional internal effects buses now available following RackUltra FX upgrade
- DM48 MixRack features 48 mic. / line inputs with high qality preamps, plus 24 line outputs, all on XLR
- DX32 and GX4816 Expander also available to add further I/O capacity.
Manufacturer's promo
dLive with Jared Daly, FoH Engineer for Bring Me The Horizon
The dLive system uses the well-proven arrangement of a mixing 'Surface' and separate 'MixRack' stage box, linked using a tour-grade data cable instead of a heavy analogue multicore. S5000 dLive Surface and DM48 Mixrack are available to hire as separate items or as part of a hire package.
Desk layout and workflow is intuitive and clear. Touchscreen usability is excellent, with swipe and pinch-zoom gesture familiarity from tablet technology. The touchscreens are bright too, a notorious problem on digital desk displays at outdoor festivals when the sun decides to shine. The build quality is superb, designed to withstand the rigors of touring.
dLive is available from Mainline with Dante networking: we also have JoeCo Dante multi-track recording available to hire.
A MixRack can be controlled from a notebook / laptop without needing a Surface 'desk'. This can be a handy configuration in smaller venues where space is very limited. The Director software also allows show programming offline away from the desk.
RackUltra FX provides 8 new effects engines on dedicated sends and returns, in addition to the 16 main internal effects buses. These comprise studio quality vocal processing and real-time vocal retuning, reverbs, distortion and saturation.
Other features
- Fader strips are all fully assignable to any channel input or output bus / mix
- Fader strip colours and labelling are customisable
- Dual 12" touchscreens with pinch / zoom / swipe / drag / drop gestures
- Dual-redundant mains power supplies
- Dual-redundant gigabit data link (CAT 5) supported between Surface and MixRack
- Native 96kHz 24bit sampling and DSP engine
- Very low latency: less than 0.6ms MixRack input XLR to MixRack output XLR, or input to mix
- All inputs have compressor, gate, and parametric EQ FX
- All inputs can have FX inserts without using up main FX bus slots
- Individual 28 band EQ for all mixes
- Mic / line-level / AES inputs and line / AES outputs also available at the Surface
- Gigabit data link (CAT 5) links Surface to the MixRack stagebox
- Dante network enabled
- Massively flexible and customisable
- USB stereo record and playback facility
- MixRack can be controlled with a Tablet or Notebook / Laptop PC instead of (or in addition to) a Surface (see link below)
- Now supports the Allen & Heath dLive 4You Personal Mixing System via mobile app (see link below)
Manufacturer's information & media
Download Director for dLive (Windows and Mac)
dLive 4You mobile monitor mixing app details
dLive MixPad mixing app details (iOS only)
Allen & Heath dLive promotional video
dLive on tour: Sam Fender
dLive on tour: Steve Pattison with Wet Wet Wet
Introduction to dLive firmware v2.0
Please contact us to hire an Allen & Heath dLive mixing desk. We serve Manchester, the North West and UK Mainland.