Allen & Heath ZED-6FX Compact 6 Input Analogue Mixer with FX

ZED Compact has been created for musicians, singer-songwriters and small venues seeking Allen & Heath's legendary audio quality in a compact, portable format. The diminutive ZED-6FX is well suited to smaller live performance setups or duos who need onboard effects and a combination of mic and line input channels. Whether you're brainstorming musical ideas at home, delivering electrifying live performances, or capturing tracks for sharing on platforms like YouTube and SoundCloud, ZED-6FX proves to be an adaptable companion throughout your creative journey. It is the perfect companion to those who want high quality audio, without compromising space.

Exceptional Audio Quality & GSPre Boutique Preamps

Good quality preamps are essential for professional, studio quality recordings. Allen & Heath have equipped the ZED-6FX with GSPre boutique preamps, developed by the same R&D team that work on their flagship touring mixers (taken from the GS-R24 recording console). These high-quality preamps offer exceptionally low noise and massive headroom, with a signature analogue warmth and depth. This ensures you'll capture fantastic, dynamic performances, free from noise and distortion, providing warm lows and rich highs for all your recordings.

MusiQ EQ Tonal Shaping

Allen & Heath analogue engineers designed the MusiQ EQ especially for ZED mixers, carefully optimising the curves and target frequencies to deliver a simple to use, musical EQ that works equally well on stage or in the studio. Each ZED Compact mixer features a responsive 2-band EQ design with optimised slope (or Q factor) for easy creative and corrective tonal shaping, allowing you to enhance and manipulate your individual instruments and recordings as you see fit.

Studio Quality FX Audio Enhancement

ZED-6FX boasts a brand new suite of studio quality reverbs and delays, painstakingly crafted to enhance your recordings and performances. The ZED-6FX brings to you a whole array of reverbs, choruses, echoes and delays for you to layer and enrich your sound. The effects section, which has its own level control, has the effects types arranged as nine banks with up to 10 effects per bank (61 presets total). Special multi-model effects provide uniquely dynamic combinations of reverbs and delays. Having a dedicated tap-tempo button is a big bonus when working live, allowing you to add atmosphere to your vocals or to further celebrate each note of your instrument.

Made For Guitars (Hi-Z Inputs)

ZED Compact comes with two Guitar DI high impedance jack inputs, allowing guitars to be plugged straight into the mixer without the need for DI boxes. Long gone are the days of clunky setups, extra boxes, and cables. This reduces the need for clutter, saving you from buying, carrying, and setting up extra gear so you can focus entirely on the music.

Road-Proof and Durable Build Quality

ZED Compact mixers are lightweight and portable without sacrificing strength and durability. Built to exacting standards to meet the demands of life on the road, ZED Compact is a mixer you can rely on whether you're playing live or at home. Housed in a soft-touch plastic case with an inset metal control panel, you can take it on the road anxiety-free thanks to its solid construction of the outer casing and impact-proof controls. Furthermore, the mixer is directly mains-powered via a switch on the rear panel, so there are no external PSUs to break or forget.