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ZED-R16 Where Analogue Meets Digital
Tue, 16 Sep 2008Allen & Heath’s first recording console for over 10 years combines analogue functionality with a very practical interface to the world of digital recording.
It’s an analogue recording mixer with FireWire soundcard, MIDI controls and in-line routing. Tracks can be built in the studio, live gigs recorded, and the results mixed-down and remixed.
Use it: As a standard analogue mixer while recording multi-track via FireWire or ADAT, As a traditional inline mixer recording with send and return per channel via FireWire, or As a MIDI controller via switchable channel faders.
16 mono + 2 stereo ins
Premium dual mic pre-amp, 4-band fully-parametric EQ
4 auxes, a stereo bus, 2 stereo returns
18+18 FireWire I/O and 8+8 ADAT I/O
Banks of MIDI controls: faders, knobs and switches
5 dedicated transport buttons
Plus, Plus, Plus
Typical 'Street' Price: $4,500
The best per forming preamp in Allen & Heath’s entire range is packaged with a high quality analogue to Firewire inter face and the most extensive EQ on any mixer at this price point (or even twice the price!) An analogue channel strip so well featured, which sounds this good, is a real find at this level.
The Allen & Heath ZE ZED-R16 combines an analogue recording mixer with a FireWire soundcard, MIDI controls and ingenious ‘home-studio’ routing so you can build tracks in the studio, record live gigs, mix-down, remix… all through warm analogue circuitry, 4 band fully parametric classic British EQ and out to crisp, precise digital format.
