Allen and Heath ZED-10 USB Compact Stereo Mixer is the ideal choice for musicians, self-recording artists, and venues. Whether you’re tracking demos at home, performing live, or contributing to commercial releases, the ZED-10 is the ultimate companion for every step of your creative journey. Recording has never been easier. You’ll be able to capture performances and record them directly to your Mac or PC – without the need for extra equipment.
Hark back to the golden age of recording. Inputs three and four provide high impedance jacks ideal for recording guitar and bass. These innovative inputs have been designed to create the sound of iconic guitars or instrument-tube preamps. Thanks to this, you’ll be able to inject vintage mojo into your performances and recordings. The ZED is a workhorse designed to streamline your workload and drastically improve the sonic quality of your recordings.
Ideal for live sound and recording, ZEDs are great for live mixing! Their layout makes them very easy to use and easy to achieve a great sound. They are also perfect for any scenario, whether that’s a live show or home recording. The USB digital audio interface will allow you to build up recordings track by track.
The flexibility and quality of the ZED-10 makes it stand out from the crowd. You can plug your guitars or instruments straight into the class A discrete FET high impedance inputs. Cater for up to four microphones, two stereo sources with MP3 player compatibility, as well as separate 2-track record outputs and a stereo playback input for 2-track replay. The ZED-10 USB also provides XLR main stereo outputs with inserts, comprehensive monitoring with headphones, and separate monitor speaker outputs. If that’s not enough, the system features the same digital effects algorithms as those used on our flagship digital consoles costing 150 times as much!
One of the great things about the ZED series is the number and variety of things you can plug in. In addition to the sixteen mono channels, there are two dual stereo channels, each with a main stereo input on jack sockets and with additional inputs on phono sockets. The USB return can be selected to one of the additional inputs so that it feeds either the main LR bus or the stereo channel.
In place of the DuoPre, the ZED-10 &10FX have pre-amps similar in design to our MixWizard range of mixers but with a twist! Inputs 3 & 4 have a high impedance jack input capable of taking either a normal line level or a low-level input from a guitar pickup. These newly designed inputs have been crafted with the aim of replicating the sound of a classic guitar or instrument tube pre-amp in a combo or head amp.
ZED-10 is equipped with a responsive 3-band EQ with MusiQ, an optimized slope (or Q factor) for equalizing individual instruments. A separately switched stereo bus can be routed to from any channel, creating a selective recording bus, monitoring bus, or stereo clean feed output. You can even route just the effects processor output to this bus and use the mixer as a high-end effects unit.
Getting audio to and from a computer easily is now a common requirement for live sound and music production. No longer do you need to fiddle around the back of your PC to get to the soundcard inputs, only to find that the levels are all wrong and noisy. Just plug in a USB lead to your ZED, select the USB routing on the mixer and the device on your computer, and that’s it! Quality audio to and from your PC or Mac. Three switches provide different send/return configurations for recording, playback, and utilizing external FX.
The ZED-10 has been designed using individual vertically mounted circuit boards with each rotary control fixed with a metal nut to the front panel – making a much more robust product that will resist damage and give years of reliable use.
Allen and Heath are pleased to announce a partnership with leading music software company IK Multimedia to bundle its pioneering AmpliTube X-GEAR software with the newly launched ZED-10 and ZED-10FX mini USB mixers. Features 4 mic/line inputs, 2 with Class A FET high impedance inputs, responsive 3-band swept mid EQ with MusiQ, 2 stereo sources with MP3 player compatibility, separate 2-track record outputs, configurable USB stereo audio in/out, 48V microphone phantom power.
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