Allen & Heath QU-24

The Qu-24 features total recall of settings (including 25 motorised faders and digitally controlled preamps), a high resolution touchscreen, Qu-Drive integrated multi-track recorder, dSNAKE for remote I/O and personal monitoring, multi-channel USB streaming to Mac, Qu-Pad control app, and iLive’s FX library.

The mixer has a dedicated fader per mic input channel, 24 mic/line inputs, three stereo inputs, four FX engines with four dedicated sends and stereo returns, 20 mix outputs including two stereo matrix mix outputs and two stereo groups with full processing, patchable AES digital output with a further two channel ALT output, dedicated talkback mic input, and two track output. The mixer includes processing capability through five ARM core processors run in parallel. High speed dual core DSPs provide channel and FX processing, with room for future expansion.

Equipped with an 800x480 full colour touchscreen, the Qu-24 features ‘Touch Channel’ access to channel processing, FX racks and all the setup and system management controls, whilst the ‘SuperStrip’ provides control knobs for a selected channel’s key processing parameters – such as gain, HPF, parametric EQ, gate threshold, compressor threshold and pan.

Also on board is Qu-Drive, the mixer’s integrated 18-channel USB recorder, which works with an external USB drive to record and playback multi-track and stereo audio .WAV files. The USB interface can also be used to store scene and library data for archiving. If using with Mac DAW systems, there is also a USB audio 32x30 streaming interface for recording and playback. The Qu-24 is equipped with many of the iLive pro touring series’ FX emulations, including classic reverbs, gated reverbs, delays and modulators.

Features:

• 800 x 480 color touchscreen interface
• 24 Mic/Line inputs
• High-spec/low-distortion AnaLOGIQ preamps
• Motorized faders for every input
• Integrated 18-channel multitrack recorder (48K/24-bit Wavs)
• Transfers recorded tracks to/from mixer with a USB hard drive
• Interfaces with most leading DAWs
• Save and load scenes via USB to store & recall mixing sessions
• iLive FX library provides emulations of classic reverbs, etc.
• Powered by 5 ARM-core processors + dual-core DSPs for effects
• Remote app lets you control the mixer wirelessly over Wi-Fi
• Connect to a remote rack with a single Cat5 ethernet cable
• Compatible with A&H ME monitoring system; allows musicians to control their own mixes
• 30 in / 24 out
• 18 guage steel frame