Allen & HeathQU-16C Rack Mountable Compact Digital Mixer, Chrome Edition

There's no need for me to go into great detail about the features of these A&H QU series mixers as they're well known and there's many in depth reviews on the internet, but I will say that these mixers are amazing to setup and run. I install and run sound systems for churches and non-profit events and have been using these A&H QU series boards whenever possible. They're very easy to setup, learn and operate which is especially important when teaching either a newbie or a volunteer who's used to analog mixers. Compared to competitor's digital boards, I feel the QU series are very intuitive and offer a good mix of on-board effects and sound shaping tools like EQ and compression. The iPad app also allows you to have complete control over the mixer via wifi, so getting stage monitors and remote aux's setup can be a one-man operation if need be since you don't have to be physically on the mixer to make adjustments.

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Digital sound boards are a whole new world. They can be complex to operate but as you learn the functions of this board, you find it hard to believe you used anything less. We record most shows now. We have independent monitors and we each run our own monitor sound. I'm the singer and can run the board from a tablet sitting on a music stand. If we have a separate sound tech, he/she could run the sound from the front with running wires to them. I've learned a lot about the board and look forward to learning the 95% I don't know. One quick note... get the "Patriot Tab Series 32GB Micro-Sized USB 3.0 Flash Drive" since the QU16 doesn't take all USB drives but it works well with this low-profile drive.

Glad we finally upgraded to digital! Well worth the money! Now I can mix sound and effects from the stage or from my seat in our church sanctuary using my iPad. Made our sound 100% better! Awesome and easy transition from the Allen & Heath MixWizard analog board!

I needed a small, portable digital mixer for live streaming and other production events. Having experience with its bigger sibling the Qu24, I knew that this was going to be a solid, high quality digital mixer and I have not been disappointed. Easy to operate and solidly built, the Qu16 is a highly recommended digital mixer than can work great for live productions and most certainly for small studio setups as well.

I love this board!! Does everything I need and easy to teach how to use!! It’s better than free sex!

After coming from an analog board with only a level, and high, mid, low adjustments for channel, this board was a definite overhaul. This sound board haves just about everything you would want or need, with compressors, gates, Parametric EQ, etc. This Board is great!

This mixer has a little bit of a learning curve, just watch a few YouTube videos on it. I was using the mackie iPad mixer and switched to this one for the touchable faders. It’s a little large, but actually small considering all the onboard effects. Very worth it