Allen & Heath QU-16C Rack Mountable Compact Digital Mixer, Chrome Edition (Refurb)

the Allen & Heath Qu-16C Rackmountable Digital Mixer is a 16-channel digital mixer and USB audio interface designed for live and installed sound as well as studio use. The chrome edition adds high-contrast chrome rotary and fader knobs that improve visibility in dark conditions, as well as a number of software enhancements from the updated firmware (V1.8). It features 16 mic- or line-selectable inputs and 3 stereo line inputs. Its 16 anaLOGIQ microphone preamps have digitally recallable settings that can be saved and recalled for future sessions. The Qu-16 has a variety of output options, including 4 mono XLR mix outputs, 3 XLR stereo-pair mix outputs, an alternative TRS stereo-pair mix output, a TRS stereo-pair 2-track output, and a 2-channel AES digital output.

The Qu-16 has 16 busses as well as 4 stereo effects returns, and offers a variety of routing options and controls. It has a 5" 800x480 resolution touchscreen that displays your metering and RTA views, effects tracks, processing, routing, and saved scenes. The 16 tracks are controllable with the 16 100mm motorized faders. Built-in processing allows you to EQ, compress, gate, switch polarity, and apply delay to all 16 tracks. All of your settings can be saved as a scene and recalled later for quick setup.

Thanks to its internal convertors, the Qu-16 is also a USB audio interface and can record to any Core Audio-compatible software on your Mac. You can also record to and play back audio from an external USB hard drive. It is compatible with the Qu-Pad iPad app that allows you to control your mix with your iPad over a connected wireless network. The Qu-16 unit itself can be rackmounted or set up on a desk.

Features:

Automatic Mic Mixer (AMM) for conference speech control, available for CH1-16
Group Mix mode to use the Groups to create additional stereo Mixes
High-Pass Filter (HPF) slope increased from 12 to 18 dB/octave
Spectrogram mode for the RTA
Reset default for Scene Global Filter now blocks Custom Layer and SoftKey settings
User password can be set at the mixer for the Qu-You personal monitor app
Qu-Pad app now follows the Admin password
More functions added to the Qu-Pad app:
Audio Setup – PAFL, Talkback, SigGen, AMM
AMM and MIDI fader added to Custom Strips
Input linking
Direct Out source and level trims
Matrix sends
Mix routing and source options
Output balance
Ability to assign all On/Off and Pre/Post to a mix
Group/Mix mode select