Allen & Heath SQ-Rack: A Compact 19-inch Digital Rack Mixer
The powerful SQ is now available in rackmount format.
The Allen & Heath SQ-Rack expands its line of professional digital live mixers, with 96kHz signal processing and flexible app control.
With the SQ-Rack, Allen & Heath have taken all the connectivity and processing features from the popular SQ-5 console and crammed them into the compact 19-inch rack format loved by so many live engineers.
Allen & Heath SQ-Rack
The SQ-Rack is a 48-channel 36-bus mixing console equipped with the Allen & Heath XCVI FPGA processing engine. With sub-0.7ms latency and variable bit depths, it allows you to use the DEEP plugins on all 48 inputs running at sample rates of up to 96 kHz.
In addition, the 96-bit accumulator allows increased headroom for mixing. Like the SQ-5, the SQ-Rack has 16 high-quality mic preamps and an additional preamp for the talkback channel. Meanwhile, the rear panel also gives you access to the 12 XLR outputs, 2 stereo line inputs, and the AES output section.
At first, you might think that you’ll need to adjust to the SQ-Rack’s control interface without faders. However, with its impressive 7-inch touchscreen and the set of assignable softkeys and rotary knobs, you can easily recall and manage your mix settings before you start reaching for the SQ Control App or the more advanced SQ MixPad App for macOS, iOS, Android, and Windows.
By default, all input channels have fast gating, sidechain, and filter, as well as compression and 4-band EQ. On your mix bus, you have compression, and both parametric and 28-band graphic EQ options, so you can make necessary adjustments to meet the spec of any venue and its sound system.
Also, the impressive Allen & Heath DEEP processing plugin range gives you a selection of analogue-modelled classic preamps, compressors, and effects units, with versions of the legendary LA-2A and the Roland RE-201 Space Echo.
To use the SQ-Rack with a wide scope of applications, the SQ-Rack has 5 different expansion card options including MADI, SLink, Waves, Dante 32×32, and Dante 64×64.
Pricing and Availability:
The Allen & Heath SQ-Rack will be available soon from your favourite retailer, priced at $2,999.
More about Allen & Heath SQ-Rack:
- Official Product Page
- More from Allen & Heath
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