Allen & Heath | SQ-5 | Digital Audio Mixer | 48 Channels

Drag-and-Drop Layout
Channels and mixes can be dragged and dropped to any strip, with custom naming and colour coding on the displays, allowing you to build a mixing environment that works for you.

At-a-Glance Metering
Each strip features our patented Chromatic channel metering system, giving you at-a-glance level indication thanks to LEDs with variable brightness and colour.

Intuitive Control
SQ’s dashboard is centred around a high-res 7” touchscreen, framed by an array of high-grip, illuminating encoders to create an intuitive, integrated blend of clear visual feedback and immediate, hands-on control.

Speed Up Your Workflow
All SQ mixers feature SoftKeys which can be assigned to commonly used functions. The SQ-6 and SQ-7 also provide assignable Soft Rotaries for even more custom control.

Powerful Processing
Every input has HPF, a super-fast gate with sidechain and filter, a musical 4-band parametric equaliser with RTA, and Peak/RMS compressor for control and shaping of levels and transients.

Mixes have both a parametric and 28 band graphic EQ along with compressor as standard, all ready to switch in when required.

World-Class FX
SQ is armed with 8 stereo FX engines and comes complete with the acclaimed RackExtra library, featuring emulations of legendary classic reverbs, gated reverbs, delays, modulators and more.
Every engine has its own dedicated stereo return too, so you don’t need to use up any of your 48 input channels.

Record to USB
The integrated SQ-Drive makes it quick and easy to capture and playback 16 channels (96kHz), 32 channels (48kHz), or a stereo recording of the performance direct to a USB key or drive.
No software setup, no soundcard driver issues and no extra laptop to bring to the performance.

Automatic Mic Mixer
SQ’s advanced automatic mic mixers (AMM’s) make it a natural choice for mixing conferences, panel talks and TV shows. They’re fully integrated in the mixer too, with no extra latency, so you don’t need to route the audio to an internal DSP rack or an external plugin system.

Two fully independent 24 channel AMM’s can be utilised for two zones or combined into a single 48 channel AMM for larger events.

Audio and Processing:

• 96kHz XCVI FPGA processing
• 48 input channels
• 12 stereo mixes + LR
• 3 stereo matrix
• 8 stereo FX engines + dedicated stereo returns

DEEP processing ready
Onboard I/O:

• 16+1 built-in mic preamps
• 2 stereo line inputs
• 12 XLR line outputs
• 2 TRS line outputs
• AES output

Control:

• 16+1 Faders / 6 Layers
• 7” capacitive touchscreen
• 8 assignable SoftKeys
• SQ-MixPad app
• SQ4You app

Expandability and Integration:

• SLink port for remote audio / expansion
• 64×64 I/O port for audio networking cards (Dante, Waves, MADI, SLink)

Recording and Streaming:

• SQ-Drive direct recording to USB
• 32×32 96kHz USB interface