ALLEN & HEATH CQ-18T Consoles - Compact 18-channel digital console, Bluetooth, 7" touchscreen

Speed and ease of use are at the heart of this range. The new Quick Channels, Gain/Feedback Assistants and Signal Conscious FX enhance audio quality and offer fast, intuitive handling.

Available in three formats - two desktop models and one stagebox-style model. All use the same technology, applications and user interface, but with slightly different features.

With the CQ range, Allen & Heath have created a super-portable, fun-to-use, yet fully-featured digital mixer suitable for both technical and non-technical users.

The CQ is designed to be used wherever high-quality sound processing and summing is required, from bands and producers to AV and rental providers, to operate as the main mixer in a small venue or secondary on larger stages.

The CQ-18T is an intuitive and efficient compact rack-mount digital mixer, featuring 18 channels managed by the brand's powerful 96 kHz FPGA processing circuitry. With its small footprint and 3 kg on the scale, combined with numerous mixing aids dedicated to musicians and sound engineers alike, the CQ-18T is ideal for home studio recording, streaming, mixing small concerts or conferences.

The power and audio quality of the brand's flagships.
Allen & Heath's experience and know-how in designing top-level mixing consoles, deployed at numerous events with the Qu, SQ, Avantis and dLive ranges, is no longer in question. The CQ-18T, an ultra-compact digital mixing console with 18 inputs (and Bluetooth) and 8 outputs, inherits this inimitable know-how, offering musicians and sound engineers alike the power of Allen & Heath's renowned 96 kHz FPGA technology and intelligent new tools and effects to achieve high-flying mixing with ease.

Prepare your show in moments!
Thoughtfully designed for musicians, sound engineers and podcasters alike, the CQ-18T features the "Quick Channels" system, allowing you to set up a complete processing channel in moments for a specific application or instrument. More experienced users will be able to access full channel control for advanced settings via the traditional Complete mode, returning to the classic mixing control interface.

No longer miss out on your mixing.
The CQ comes with a host of support tools to make your mixing experience all the more enjoyable. True guardians of your sound, the Gain Assistant saves you precious time by automatically and precisely adjusting the preamp gain, preventing you from unpleasant peaks and clipping in your signal, while the Feedback Assistant allows you to find and remove feedback frequencies when setting up in Fixed mode, then monitor at-risk frequencies throughout the show on all Live mode outputs. To liven up debates and conferences with ease, an automatic microphone mixer (AMM) is available on each input, helping to improve the clarity and intelligibility of the discussion.
Enjoy effects that are always well metered and balanced in your mix with FX Assist engines, incorporating new adaptive reverb and delay functions that respond dynamically to the signal to always blend perfectly into the mix.

A flexible, intuitive control interface.
Whether you want to drive your mix directly from the control room or control it remotely to better enjoy your sound, the CQ-18T is there for you! Its physical interface, centered on a 7" multitouch screen combined with a multifunction 360° encoder, 3 Smart Rotaries encoders and 3 customizable SoftKeys buttons, gives you complete control over every aspect of your mix.
If access to the console is complex, or you'd like to listen to your mix from somewhere other than the control room, Allen & Heath provides two free apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS: CQ-MixPad for controlling the mixer from (almost) anywhere, and CQ4You for independently controlling the personal feedback of each musician and performer. With the dual-band WiFi module and built-in antenna, control the CQ-18T with ease right out of the box.

- Additional Specs:

- 16 mic/line preamps, 8x XLR + 8x combo XLR/TRS

- Balanced stereo input, 2x TRS

- LR main output, 2x XLR

- 6x monitor mixes, 6x TRS

- 2x assignable headphone outputs, 2x TRS 6,35 mm

- USB-B interface 24x22

- SD recording/playback 24 x 22

- USB stereo recording/playback with dedicated input channel

- Bluetooth stereo playback with dedicated input channel

- 4 FX Assist motors

- 3 customizable SoftKey buttons

- 3 Smart Rotaries rotary encoders

- Dual footswitch input

- 7" touchscreen with associated rotary encoder

- Wi-Fi 2,4 G/5 G c.a. dual-band integrated with automatic channel selection

- Weight and dimensions: 3 kg, 346 x 242 x 88 mm