Allen & Heath CQ-18T Digital Mixer with 7" Touchscreen WiFi and Bluetooth Connectivity

Everything I needed for small to mid size venue mixing. Best features are built in Bluetooth, it’s on network for iPad control, and the amount of outputs that our musicians can mix to their own pleasure. It’s a workhorse for sure.

Ya sea para live o home studio es una excelente opción, nada que agregar

excellent product at its price point

Súper fácil de manejar y programar.

I have owned this mixer for 4 months and used on 15-20 live gigs. I have also owned many small format digital mixers in past including A&H QU and SQ boards, Midas M32R and MR18s and a Behringer X32 rack. Bottom line is I've sold ALL my other digital mixers and now only use the A&H CQ18T. Pros: - Sounds fantastic. - 16 great mic pres. - 6 Aux mixes and 4 FX busses are very usable. It can be run just as easily on the built-in touchscreen as on an IPAD - both are the best user interfaces of ANY of the digital mixers I've owned - hats off to A&H for getting this interface so well done. The built-in WIFI is very usable at some distance in line-of-sight, so I can go out in small/medium venues or outdoors gigs and mix from an audience position OR from the mixer itself. The built-in SD card recording (24 bit/48kHz) is superb and easy to drag and drop right into a DAW (I use Logic) vs the Behringer XLive32 or Midas DN32, both of which I used and are a pain in the neck to transform the files then import into DAW. Finally, we have used it indoors, outdoors in 38 degree weather for a cold Thanksgiving Day outdoor fundraiser-run-race gig, and it has been 100% reliable - not a single glitch, pop, drop-out, nothing - 100% reliable. The negatives, and these are minor: - Aux outs are on TRS not XLR...but I bought some adapters so we can use regular mic cables. This helps keep the size of the mixer as compact as it is. Similarly, it has an external power supply, not an IEC right into the board. If you need more than 16 inputs, this is NOT expandable so for those situations, you either bring/use a small mixer to do a submix (like a drum submix which you then fold into the CQ), or this is not the mixer for you - you will need a bigger mixer with more inputs/expandability. And like all digital mixers, there are menu layers which you need to navigate while mixing... but again it is the most logical, intuitive software interface of any of the small format digital mixers I've used including some programmable soft knobs and buttons. I programmed the 3 soft knobs to control the overall main and monitor levels, and the 3 buttons mute the mains, monitors and FX. Overall we have been extremely happy with the CQ18T and highly recommend it.

Let me start by saying this is an absolutely first rate product for the price. It's not often I get to enjoy purchasing something that has this much wow factor.The only complaint is that the main knob slides off too easily. Not so much that it would fall off if you turned it upside down, but definitely noticeable when you use the knob normally. I contacted A&H support. They were great at getting back to me quickly btw. They said this is "normal". It feels like a flaw to me, but whatever. My solution was to wrap the post with a few wraps of silicone tape that you find in the plumbing section of big box stores. Works like a charm now.

Solid gear, some very handy functions.Can't beleive this mixer does not have SUB GROUPS!!Also, the interface to get back to adjust channel faders is not super quick when setting eq/feedback control etc