Allen & Heath SQ-5 48 Channel Digital Mixer

Mix a masterpiece Driven by Allen & Heath’s game changing XCVI 96kHz FPGA engine, the SQ-5 has been designed for professionals who are in the most demanding live sound situations. The SQ-5 brings world class high res audio with super low 0.7ms latency, the SQ-5 gives unmatched power and audio fidelity. The mixer has 16 onboard preamps and 8 stereo effects engines, each with dedicated return channels and access to the lauded RackExtra FX library. 12 stereo mixes make the SQ-5 the perfect partner for in-ear monitoring, whilst Automatic mic mixing takes the strain in multi-mic situations. The SQ-5 is a tool for professional engineers in any live sound environment.

Work the way you want to work Each new design from Allen & Heath aims to take another step towards creating the perfect mixing experience. At the heart of the SQ-5 is a high-res 7” capacitive touchscreen, surrounded by a variety of illuminated encoders to give an intuitive, user friendly and integrated blend of easy to see visual feedback and instant hands on control. Each channel and each mix is able to be moved with a simple ‘drag and drop’ process to any strip, alongside customised naming and colour coding, allowing you to tailor a mixing environment which lets you work how you want to work. Each strip features Allen & Heath’s patented chromatic channel metering system, allowing you an at-a-glance indicator of levels, thanks to the LED’s featuring adjustable brightness and colours.

limitless potential The SQ series is compatible with the ‘ME Personal Mixing System’, a system devised to allow performers to have complete control of their own monitor mixes. The amount of ME-1 and ME-500 personal mixers you can add is completely up to you, any number can be daisy-chained from the SQ’s SLink port. Click here to learn more about the ME Personal Mixing System

...And for the artists Allen & Heath have developed 2 utterly essential apps for the SQ range. The ‘SQ MixPad’ for engineers, and ‘SQ4You’ for artists. SQ MixPad is a free to download app, for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS platforms, which provides handy suite for editing offline, and online wired or wireless control of the SQ’s main mixing functionalities. ‘SQ4You’ on the other hand is a personal mixing app to work alongside the SQ series mixers, which allows as many as 8 artists to have complete control over their mix in the monitors from Android or iOS devices, leaving the engineer to have total focus on the FOH sound.

Create the perfect mix Allen & Heath’s new SQ-5 desk holds all the processing power you could need to produce the perfect mix, and more. Each of the 48 inputs has HPF, a high-speed gate with sidechain and filter, a musical 4-band parametric EQ and Peak/RMS compressor to give you maximum control and shaping of levels and transients. Mixes have parametric and 28 bands graphic EQ alongside compressor as standard, each of these ready to switch in when you need.