Allen & Heath Qu-Pac

Massive Mixing Mojo in a Petite Package

When it comes to sound mixing, new technologies have forever blurred the lines between "live" and "studio" mixers. And given that you're likely to be performing your craft from just about anywhere these days, this makes perfect sense: Allen & Heath made the Qu-Pac for you. Juiced with five cores of high-efficiency ARM core processing, this desktop/rackmount unit takes the power of the A&H's Qu mixers and shoehorns it into a super-compact format that suits your busy schedule. Qu-Pac lets you mix from your iPad, but the mixer's full firepower can also be deployed via the front panel and touchscreen. Equipped with custom settings and Cat 5expansion up to 38 inputs, the Allen & Heath Qu-Pac gives you a scalable, flexible, failsafe sound-mixing solution.

Touchscreen control speeds up your workflow

The Allen & Heath Qu-Pac rocks a 16-million-color, 800 x 480 touchscreen with an integrated data encoder - the core of a user interface that gives you quick and easy access to all your settings. Designed for clarity, the user-friendly interface has dedicated keys and screen tabs that let you quickly get to your meter and RTA views, effects racks, channel processing, USB audio control, setup menus, scenes, and much more. The Qu-Control key serves up a fully customizable screen which gives you access to user- and application-specific channels and settings. "Widgets" for channel levels, mutes, and assignment activation may be assigned to the page. User permissions and the customizable Qu-Control screen make Qu-Pac safe and convenient for daily use by non-technical volunteer staff.

The Qu-Pad app gives you freedom

Add Allen & Heath's Qu-Pad iPad app to your rig and you'll have the freedom to adjust your monitors from onstage, tweak the PA while roaming about the venue, then mix the show from FoH. Qu-Pad connects to the Qu-Pac via Wi-Fi and gives you instant access to all live mixing settings and parameters. Whether you're mixing your band live, recording in the studio, or you're in charge of setting up a permanent sound installation for your school, church, or company conference hall — you'll find the Allen & Heath Qu-Pac to be an outstanding solution that's at once flexible, scalable, and rock-solid reliable.

AnalogiQ preamps and 24-bit conversion, for warm, musical sound

Allen & Heath fortified the Qu-Pac with 16 of their superb AnalogiQ total-recall preamps. Featuring phantom power, zero crossing detection, and a unique padless 1dB-step gain stage, the preamps are married to the DSP for optimum transparency and gain accuracy. The analog signal is captured by high-quality, low-latency 24bit A-D converters matched to high-grade 24bit D-A converters. A&H has spent considerable time refining the AnalogiQ design so it gives you stellar transparency, with minimum distortion and a vanishingly low noise floor. But how do these preamps sound? Take it from Sweetwater, they're delightfully analog-sounding - warm and musical.

Features:

• 16 acclaimed AnaLOGIQ recallable preamps
• 16 onboard Mic/Line Inputs (XLR/TRS)
• Expandable up to 38 inputs via dSnake
• Three Stereo Inputs (TRS)
• 32 Mono + three stereo input channels
• 12 onboard Mix Outputs (XLR)
• Four Stereo Groups
• Two Stereo Matrix Outs
• AES Digital Out
• Four DCA Groups
• Four Mute Groups
• Qu-Pad iPad App for all live mixing controls
• Qu-You iPhone App for personal monitoring
• Qu-Drive direct Multitrack recording and playback on USB drives
• 15 Soft Keys
• 16 Custom Select keys
• Qu-Control custom screen to suit application
• Four FX engines
• Four FX Sends/Returns
• 32x32 USB Audio Interface
• 5" Touchscreen
• iLive FX Library
• Compatible with ME Personal Mixing System
• Trim, polarity, HPF, gate, insert/ducker, 4-band PEQ, compressor, and delay on all Inputs
• Insert, 4-band PEQ, 1/3 octave GEQ, compressor, and delay on all Mix outputs
• Built-in Signal Generator
• RTA with Peak Band indication