allen and heath zed r16 16 channel firewire recording mixer at gear4music com

the zed r16 is a superbly equipped console with all the crucial parts of the recording process in one box the best per forming preamp in allen heath s entire range is packaged with a high quality analogue to firewire interface 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 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 in the studiozed r16 combines an imaginative feature set with professional build quality to create the ideal centrepiece for any project studio with big ideas or larger studios with dedicated live rooms control room speaker and alternate speaker outputs plus two separate artist monitor feeds are provided in addition to the digital inter face two analogue recording outputs are also available the zed r16 even has a dedicated internal condenser talkback mic features such as the dual function audio midi faders and built in sequencer transport were dreamed up by engineers here at a h who have home studios themselves so they ve made sure they ve built in features they really need soundcardthe internal soundcard features 18 firewire inputs and 18 outputs plus 16 adat i o each channel on the mixer has its own independent soundcard channel so instruments can be recorded simultaneously pre or post eq and into the sequencer separately to minimise clock jitter and provide synchronicity between the zed r16 and other devices the mixer is equipped with the professional jetpll digital audio chipset mix down and livein addition to multi track recording the zed r16 allows mixing down in analogue then recording back into the computer in digital the bundled sonar le software makes this