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If you decide it's not suitable, you can return it to us for an exchange or a refund, providing the product is in 'as new' condition and in its original packaging.We do everything we can to make sure the right item reaches you in perfect condition. If your order arrives damaged, or is incorrect, let us know within 14 days of receiving it and we'll arrange for a free collection.If your goods develop a fault within the warranty period, we'll quickly repair or replace the item for you. If the fault occurs within the first 2 years of your ownership, we'll collect the goods and deliver them back to you free of charge.We're unable to accept returns of any custom-made items designed to work together as a unique package. Some items are only eligible for the money-back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging.For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information page. To make it as easy as possible for you to get the gear you want, we offer a range of instant finance options. If you spend £250 or more online, you can choose to pay over 48, 36 or 24 months. To make it as easy as possible for you to get the gear you want, we offer a range of instant finance options.

If you spend £250 or more online, you can choose to pay over 48, 36 or 24 months. Sleek and versatile. The Allen and Heath ZED-420 USB Live Mixer is the ideal choice for musicians, self-recording artists and venues.

Whether you're tracking demos at home, performing live or contributing to commercial releases. The ZED-ZED-420 is the ultimate companion for every step of your creative journey.Even with its compact size, the ZED-420 includes four auxiliary channels and a sweepable, four-band EQ, ideal for manipulating the tone of your recordings for instant, professional results.

You'll be able to capture performances and record them directly to your Mac or PC without the need for additional equipment. Make your performances resonate with the listener through the inclusion of premium DuoPre preamps. These will provide you with exceptional low noise and expansive headroom, thanks to distributed gain control. The ZED-420 is a workhorse, designed to streamline your workflow and drastically improve the sonic quality of your recordings.Product Ref: 18951. Full Description Padless DuoPreTM mic/line pre-amplifierThe Allen and Heath ZED-420 USB Live Mixer features a padless DuoPreTM mic/line pre-amplifier which delivers you high-headroom and low-noise signal.

The 4 band, 2 sweep EQ, along with the low noise summing amps, is borrowed from the acclaimed GL2400, while the bus architecture is a simplified, but equally comprehensive, version of that employed in the successful GL series. Highly flexible designThe USB audio interface, with its uniquely flexible capability, allows different signals to be sent to USB, from LR or from selected aux buses. The USB return signal can be routed straight to the LR mix or to a stereo channel.

The connectors are placed on the top surface provide you with easy plugging and patching. As well as this, the individual circuit boards are firmly attached to the top panel, making the ZED-420 as rugged as Allen and Heath's top of the range ML series mixers.

Premium quality inputsOne of the great things about the ZED series is the number and variety of things you can plug in. In addition to the sixteen mono channels there are two dual stereo channels, each with a main stereo input on jack sockets and with additional inputs on phono sockets. The USB return can be selected to one of the additional inputs so that it feeds either the main LR bus or the stereo channel. DuoPreTMBased on the proven pre-amps from the hugely successful PA series, the ZED series has new DuoPreTM pre-amps, which use a two stage design, with carefully controlled amounts of gain in each stage Most of the gain comes from the first stage, so unwanted noise is kept to a minimum. Line level signals are simply plugged into the second stage of the pre-amp by using the line input jack socket, which has the great advantage of less noise when using the line input, providing you with clean, inspiring recordings.USB audio flexibilityGetting audio to and from a computer easily is now a common requirement for live sound and music production. The way Allen and Heath have implemented this on the ZED-420 is incredibly easy!

No longer do you need to fiddle around the back of your PC to get to the soundcard inputs, only to find that the levels are not optimised. Just plug in a USB lead to your ZED, select the USB routing on the mixer and the device on your computer and that's it! Quality audio to and from your PC or Mac. Three switches provide different send/return configurations for recording, playback and utilising external FX.Rugged build qualityThe ZED-420 has been designed using individual vertically mounted circuit boards with each rotary control fixed with a metal nut to the front panel - making a much more robust product that will resist damage and give years of reliable use.

ZED also has professional 100mm faders for ultimate control over your levels.SONAR LE recording software - provided Free!Allen and Heath have teamed up with Cakewalk to bundle SONAR LE with this ZED mixer. The two products team up together in many ways to make your life easier - for example, straightforward recording of a stereo mix, recording tracks individually to build up a song, or for inserting a SONAR LE effects plug-in. Acclaimed musical EQZED-420 features a responsive 4-band EQ taken from the acclaimed GL2400 mixer. The design utilises MusiQ - optimised slope (or Q factor). This provides you with total control when manipulating the sonic qualities of each individual instrument. Versatile auxiliary sends6 aux sends are provided, of which 1&2 are premade for foldback monitoring, and 3 & 4 are switched pre or post-fade for effects sends.

And 5&6 are post-fade. Auxes 1&2 can be sent to the USB bus for recording pre-fade signals independently to the main mix.

The prospect of combining the functionality of a mixer and an audio interface is an attractive one, for a number of reasons..

Setting up a studio can be a complicated business. Before you've even decided what equipment you need, you've got to decide on how you plan to work. Broadly speaking, there are two approaches: buy separate boxes for the various different facilities you need — an audio interface, a headphone amp, a monitor controller, and so on — or get a few units that each cover a lot of bases. Most mixers, for example, incorporate channel strips, headphone outputs and various routing facilities, which means that with a desk and a multi-channel audio interface, you're just a couple of microphones and a pair of monitors away from being able to do some serious multitrack recording.

Some of the more advanced 'mixerfaces' have routing buttons that let you flip a channel from being fed an analogue input to receiving a digital input from your computer.Taking this latter approach to its extreme, many mixer manufacturers have started to incorporate multi-channel interfaces into their consoles, and there are many reasons why you might want to invest in a 'mixerface' rather than buying the two separately. For starters, there's less cabling to worry about! If you wanted to record, say, eight channels from a mixer into a separate audio interface, you'd need either eight separate cables going from the desk's outputs to eight interface inputs, or you'd have to buy an expensive eight-way loom. And that's before you've even thought about the best way to monitor your recordings! Since pretty much every mixer/interface has some facility for sending audio from the computer directly to an input on the mixer, you also won't have to worry about cables going back the other way, from your computer to the mixer.

Keep It Simple

This kind of simplicity is particularly welcome when you want to make a recording of a live performance. Interfacing all the necessary analogue equipment (mics, stage boxes, monitors and so on) correctly is a challenge in itself, without having to worry about using splitter boxes, or connecting looms to your mixer's direct outputs, and then connecting those to your computer! With an all-in-one mixer/interface, by the time you've got the gig set up, all you need to do is connect the desk to a laptop via USB or Firewire, and hit the record button in your DAW.

The Return Journey

So far, we've talked only about recording from your mixer to your computer, but many of the consoles listed on the previous pages (particularly the more expensive ones) are also happy to pipe multi-channel audio in the other direction. This means that, at the press of a button, each channel on the desk could be passing a channel of audio from your computer, allowing you to easily use all of your desk's facilities — including EQs and routing facilities — for mixing as well as recording. This approach also makes doing overdubs and drop-ins a doddle: simply switch a channel back into record mode and you'll be able to hear what's being recorded in real time (and with zero latency) alongside all the existing tracks.

On The Flip Side

So is there a down side to the recording Utopia that is the combined mixer and interface? Well, potentially. Expandability is the first casualty: say you initially started off with a 16-channel mixerface, but later decided that you wanted to record 24 channels simultaneously. A desk upgrade might not be enough in itself — you could well find yourself having to buy a whole new interface too, in order to accommodate the extra streams of audio you intend to capture.

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The other potential pitfall has to do with the computer side of things. If, in a few years, you wanted to upgrade your computer, you could find that it wasn't compatible with your mixerface. Firewire ports, for example, are becoming increasingly rare on laptops (indeed, many new Macbooks don't have them at all), so if you had a Firewire mixerface but wanted a new computer, you might need to either buy some kind of Firewire adaptor (a Thunderbolt type, say), or face the prospect of getting a new mixerface altogether.

Still, the bottom line is that, as long as you get a mixer/interface that suits your recording requirements, and is capable of handling a bit extra if you wish to record more channels, the combination approach ought to make your life significantly easier for years to come.

The Decision Is Yours..

Computer recording technology is now very mature, but many people still prefer to work with traditional mixing desks. So why not get a desk that fully integrates with your computer? Here's our pick of available options.

Behringer X32 £2300$2900

Behringer X32 digital mixer/audio interface.This digital console upset the market when it was first announced a couple of years ago, particularly because of the number of features on offer for the price. Although it's intended mainly for live use, its Midas-designed preamps should make it easily capable of producing quality studio recordings, while its built-in effects and motorised faders also help to make it suitable for mixing.

Review: /sos/aug12/articles/behringer-x32.htm

The Music Group +49 2154 9206 4149

Midas Venice U16 £909$1411

Midas Venice U16

From live-console legends Midas, the Venice U-series are premium-quality live mixers that offer an extensive feature set — including six auxes and polarity inversion on the mic channels — as well as multitrack recording and mixing via USB. The Venice F-range desks offer identical functionality, but with Firewire computer connectivity.

Review: /sos/may11/articles/midas-venice-f32.htm

The Music Group +49 2154 9206 4149

The Music Group +1 425 672 0816

Yamaha 01V96i £2620$2900

Yamaha 01V96i

Based on the established 01V96, the new 'i' version has the same layout, effects and channel count (40 inputs, including 12 mic preamps, controlled via 16 motorised faders), but adds 16 channels of bi-directional USB interfacing. It can also be configured to work as a control surface with most DAWs.

Review: /sos/jun12/articles/yamaha-01v96i.htm

Yamaha Music Europe +44 (0)844 811 1116

Phonic HelixBoard 24 Universal £958$1299

Phonic HelixBoard 24 Universal

Despite its reasonable price, this 16-channel analogue desk is capable of up to 18 separate tracks to a computer, via either USB or Firewire. It also offers a stereo return from a computer, a digital S/PDIF output, and a built-in effects section.

CUK Audio +44 (0)1414 405333

Alesis Multimix 16 USB £320$599

Alesis MultiMix 16 USB

Although it's the lowest-cost mixer here, the Multimix 16 USB still allows you to record 18 separate channels (from any of its mono mic/line inputs, stereo line inputs and main mix bus) to a computer, via USB. All the usual compact analogue mixer features are present too, including two aux sends, a two-track return and a headphone output.

Review: /sos/aug08/articles/alesisMultimixUSB16.htm

Numark Alesis +44 (0)1252 341400

Allen & Heath Zed R16 £1549$1999

Allen & Heath Zed R16

The Zed R16 from UK manufacturers Allen & Heath combines a traditional, high-quality analogue recording console with extensive Firewire interfacing, which means you can not only record the outputs of individual channels to your computer, but send them back the other way too, taking advantage of the mixer's analogue EQ and routing functionality during mixdown. It also features extensive DAW controller functionality.

Review: /sos/nov08/articles/allenandheathzedr16.htm

Audio Technica +44 (0)1132 771441

American Music & Sound +1 800 431 2609

Mackie Onyx 1640i £1249$1599

Mackie Onyx 1640i

Like most of Mackie's new mixers, the 1640i uses the company's highly regarded Onyx preamps. Each channel has a four-band EQ, and the first two channels are capable of accepting instrument-level signals, eliminating the need for a separate DI box. Usefully, as well as the individual channels, you can route the aux sends into your computer, meaning that you can mix using VST plug-ins like traditional outboard effects.

Review: /sos/may10/articles/mackieonyx1640i.htm

Loud Technologies +44 (0)1494 557398

PreSonus StudioLive 1602 £1249$1299

PreSonus StudioLive 1602

The baby of PreSonus' digital mixer range, the StudioLive 1602 is, as its name suggests, intended for both live and recording use. The control layout is designed to be familiar to users of analogue desks, and it ships with Capture, a software program that takes all the hassle out of recording live concerts to a computer. Uses bi-directional Firewire interfacing to record the outputs of any/all channels to your computer, or send them back the other way too, taking advantage of the mixer's digital EQ and routing functionality during mixdown. Dual onboard FX, no DAW control, non-motorised faders, but free Virtual Studio Live software allows offline editing/backup/transfer of all control 'scenes' (except analogue gain).

Review: /sos/jan12/articles/presonus-studiolive-16-0-2.htm

Source Distribution +44 (0)20 8962 5080