Sleek and versatile. The Allen and Heath ZED-12FX 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-12FX is the ultimate companion for every step of your creative journey.
Even with its compact size, the 12FX includes four auxiliary channels and a sweepable three-band EQ, ideal for manipulating the tone of your recordings for instant professional results. You’ll be able to capture performances and record them directly to your Mac or PC without the need for additional equipment. Make your performances resonate with the listener through the inclusion of premium DuoPre preamps. These will provide you with exceptionally low noise and expansive headroom thanks to distributed gain control. The Zed-12FX is a workhorse designed to streamline your workload and drastically improve the sonic quality of your recordings.
Integrated time-delay effects: 16 essential time-delay effects add to the already bulging feature set. The mixer is ideal if you don’t want to carry around an effects unit to shows but would still like a touch of elegance to your performances. In addition to the DuoPre TM mic pre-amps, 100mm faders, and MusiQ EQ section, which are shared with the whole ZED range, the ZED FX has 16 unique effects designed by our DSP team here in Cornwall.
ZED FX: The ZED FX is easily controlled using 3 buttons and 9 LEDs. Quickly tap your ideal delay time or dial-in the perfect amount of reverb that you require for a lead vocal. Hold down the TAP button and press the up or down button to alter the effects parameter, for example, on patch (9) Plate, this would adjust the decay length. The ZED FX is designed to fulfill all the functions you’ll need without the presence of a professional live sound engineer. The layout and features have been arranged to be logical and instantly recognizable at a dark gig – a mixer you can trust to perform.
USB audio interface: The USB audio interface, with its uniquely flexible capability, allows different signals to be sent to USB from LR or from selected aux buses. The USB return signal can be routed straight to the LR mix or to a stereo channel. The connectors are placed on the top surface for easy plugging & patching, and the construction with individual circuit boards firmly nutted to the top panel is as rock-solid as Allen & Heath’s top-of-the-range ML Series mixers.
Internal FX: 16 separate effects have been crafted into the ZED-FX range. These include Delay and Reverb, Ping-Pong delay, a selection of reverbs with different room/hall/arena properties, a flanger, and a chorus. All have been designed to complement the material you are working with. Each of the effects has a parameter that can be altered: pre-delay can be adjusted, room sizes tweaked, and flanger speed dialed-in, providing you with complete control. Five of the effects can have their tempo tapped in and the output auditioned by the FX PFL.
Inputs: One of the great things about the ZED series is the number and variety of things you can plug in. In addition to the six mono channels, there are three dual stereo channels, each with a main stereo input on jack sockets and with the ability to take additional stereo inputs from phono sockets or from the USB audio input. Flexibility gives you control. Six mic/line channels are provided on ZED-12FX – plenty for mics or DI boxes for a small band, duo, or solo performer, 4 stereo line inputs – dual inputs both with gain and 3-band EQ.
DuoPre TM: Based on the proven pre-amps from the hugely successful PA series, the ZED series has new DuoPre TM pre-amps, which use a two-stage design with carefully controlled amounts of gain in each stage. When amplifying the signal from the XLR input, the gain range is huge – 69dB of range to be exact – and is very evenly distributed around the gain control, meaning better control of signal level. Most of the gain comes from the first stage, so unwanted noise is kept to a minimum. Line level signals are simply plugged into the second stage of the pre-amp by using the line input jack socket, which has the great advantage of less noise when using the line input.
EQ section: ZED-FX features a musical 3-band EQ derived from the acclaimed GL2400 mixer. The design utilizes MusiQ – optimized slope (or Q factor) for equalizing individual instruments.
Auxiliary sends: 4 aux sends are provided, of which 1&2 are prefade for foldback monitoring, and 3 & 4 post-fade for effects sends. A stereo signal can be sent from aux via USB to computer to create 2 separate record feeds independent of the main LR mix (1&2) and/or used as FX sends (3&4).
USB audio flexibility: Getting audio to and from a computer easily is now a common requirement for live sound and music production. The way we have implemented this on ZED is super-flexible and super-easy! 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.
Build: The ZED-12FX 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. ZED also has professional 100mm faders for ultimate control over your levels.
SONAR LE – provided free! Allen & Heath have teamed up with Cakewalk to bundle SONAR LE with this ZED mixer. The two team up together in many ways – for example, straightforward recording of a stereo mix, recording tracks individually to build up a song, or for inserting a SONAR LE effects plug-in.
Features: Insert points, High pass filter, Stereo imaging control on every channel, 3-band EQ with swept mid (CH 1-6), 2-band (CH 7-12 Stereo), Effects, Rackmountable, Height: 3.9″, Width: 15.2″, Depth: 18.3″. Weight: 10kgs. Product Code: ZED12FX.
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