The CQ range of digital mixers is the most compact ever designed by Allen & Heath. Featuring a 96 kHz FPGA processing engine, it offers extensive connectivity with Bluetooth, wireless options, and audio recording and playback over SD and USB. QC are designed to be used wherever high-quality sound processing and summing is required, whether it is groups or producers, AV providers and rental, to operate as the main mixer of a small room or even secondary on larger stages. The CQ-18T is an intuitive and efficient compact, rackable digital mixing console featuring 18 channels managed by the brand’s powerful 96 kHz FPGA processing circuit. With its compact size and 3 kg weight on the scale, combined with numerous mixing tools dedicated to musicians as well as sound engineers, the CQ-18T is ideal for home studio recording, streaming, mixing small concerts or conferences. The power and audio quality of the brand’s flagships. The experience and know-how of Allen & Heath in the design of high level mixing consoles, deployed on many events with the ranges Qu, SQ, Avantis and dLive, is no longer to be demonstrated. The CQ-18T, an ultra compact digital mixing console with 18 inputs (and Bluetooth) and 8 outputs, inherits this knowledge-make inimitable by offering musicians and sound engineers to benefit from the power of Allen & Heath’s famous 96 kHz FPGA technology and new intelligent tools and effects to achieve a high-quality mix, in all simplicity. Prepare your show in a few moments! Thought for musicians as well as sound engineers or podcasters wishing to lead a debate, the CQ-18T offers you the "Quick Channels" system., allowing to set up a complete processing channel in a few moments for a specific application or instrument. The most experienced will be able to access a total control of the channel to make advanced settings via the traditional Complete mode, thus finding the classic control interface of the mix. Don’t miss out on your mix anymore. The CQ comes with many help tools to make your mixing experience even more pleasant. True guardians of your sound, the Gain Assistant saves you precious time by automatically and precisely adjusting the preamp’s gain, avoiding unpleasant spikes and clipping of your signal, while the Feedback Assistant allows you to find and remove feedback frequencies when setting up in Fixed mode, then monitor risky frequencies throughout the show on all live releases. To facilitate the debates and conferences in all simplicity, an automatic microphone mixer (AMM) is available on each entry, allowing to improve the clarity and the intelligibility of the discussion. Enjoy well-balanced effects in your mix with FX Assist engines, including new adaptive reverb and delay functions that dynamically respond to the signal to always fit perfectly into the mix. A flexible and intuitive control interface. Whether you want to control your mix directly from the control room or remotely to better appreciate your sound, the CQ-18T is here for you! Its physical interface, centered on a 7" multitouch screen combined with a multi-function 360° encoder, 3 Smart Rotaries encoders and 3 customizable SoftKeys buttons, gives you complete control over all aspects of your mixing. If access to the console is complex or you want to listen to your mix from another point than in the control room, Allen & Heath offers two free applications for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS: CQ-MixPad to control the mixer from (almost) anywhere, and CQ4You allowing to independently control the personal feedback of each musician and performer. With the dual band WiFi module and integrated antenna, control the CQ-18T with ease from its commissioning.