Mixers - Location, Live and Broadcast

Allen and Heath have just announced a new range of compact mixers based on their heavy hitting DLive technology.  The new C Class or Compact range promises to deliver the glory of DLive in both smaller and more affordable packages.  Here’s what A&H are saying. dLive C Class is founded on XCVI, the same 96kHz FPGA core which drives Allen …

Allen and Heath have been making waves in the digital mixer world for quite a while, mostly of late at the more affordable end of the market where the GLD and the Qu series have been attracting a lot of attention and well deserved acclaim. Above these two newer product lines the iLive series has long established itself as a …

The release of the Yamaha TF series of mixers seemed to be  another land mark in the rise of Dante as the networked audio protocol of choice in pro audio and a step forward for me in making up my mind how to spend my money.  Surely this is what I should be investing my money in.  You see, I quite …

I have a small confession to make, when the Allen and Heath GLD-112 arrived recently for review, I was a bit disappointed. Not at all disappointed with the desk itself, it is a very, very nice desk, read the review. No, I was disappointed that it wasn’t a Qu-16. Now that may seem silly. The GLD is a much more …

Austin Allegro or Toyota Corolla, sir? Well no contest really. Japanese car manufacturers worked out early on what consumers wanted; ultra reliable machines, regularly refreshed product lines and a range of options to suit a variety of pockets. Which in a strange reversally kind of way makes me think of Allen and Heath’s digital desks. Their iLive series technology has …

1 Intro There are three places you can stick your power amp, well four if you include the anatomically impossible suggestion of your long suffering neighbours. First, in it’s own heavy duty box with big rack handles and more fins than Helsinki or maybe put it in your speaker, go active, or put it in with the mixing desk and …

To be frank I rejoiced when Allen and Heath released the XB14 broadcast mixer aimed at the affordable end of the radio market. I was just pleased a manufacturer would be bothered to take an interest in the somewhat neglected area of specialist radio mixers and that having a wealth of experience in building mixers for the hotly competitive music …

It’s not often I feel sorry for Uli Behringer but I have to confess the release of the X32 has plucked a slightly sympathetic chord from my otherwise stony heart. Having acquired Midas and KT it seemed to me that the Behringer ‘Midas Lite‘ digital desk would attract an awful lot of attention, a quiverful of poison arrows from the …