ALLEN &HEATH ZED-10 mixer (ZED1002/X) 
Active in various scenes, including guitarist home recording portable mixer 

ZED-10 is a portable simple compact mixer suitable for mixing of home recordings and small bands. From the Studio use in stages until respond to every situation. 

With high impedance input terminals can connect directly to the electric guitar in this mixer designed specifically to. Also, it is possible and equipped with two stereo channels input MP3/CD player, keyboard, etc. 

Monitor section can be equipped with professional XLR main stereo out the applications according to the headphone and speaker output also available. 

ZED series's biggest feature is its ease-of-use. From the simple layout easy to high-quality sound; Ideal for home recording specifications, of course live mixing time will demonstrate the power. You will create a track in recording acts as a USB digital audio interface, using your PC. 
In terms of great flexibility and high quality ZED-10 delivers quality exceptionally good as mixers in this class. Also low output instruments such as the guitar, directly connect to a high-impedance input of class A FET preamp is available. 
Inserts with XLR main out, comprehensive monitoring, recording out of 4 mic inputs, 2 stereo inputs ideal for MP3 players, two instruments, and x 1 stereo playback input and a headphone and speaker output with separate, 48 V with the DI level switch phantom power, submixing. 

Characteristics that are common to the ZED series is that inputs varied with many. In addition to four mono channels, equipped with two stereo channels, each features RCA jacks with standard phone jack connected to the main mix. USB return signal can revert to switch to this one, so any used main mix or stereo channels. 

GUITAR DI 
With ZED-10/10 FX inherited the MixWizard series, instead of the popular DuoPre preamps. And yet further design improvements after input 3 and 4 will be high impedance input design. Normal line level that can handle even the low level signals from electric guitar pickups, of course, is possible. 
This newly developed preamp is designed to faithfully reproduce the amplifier head and combo amp with vacuum tube preamp sound. 
Also reproduce the pre gain circuit with vacuum tubes by class A FET circuitry and a special high-impedance input circuit running on phantom power 48 V. That to reproduce the characteristics of vacuum tube circuits overdrive with gain boost switch in addition to 26 db of boost and was successful. This by simulating soft characteristics on non-target and make the character of the instrument. 

EQ section 
ZED-10 features a 3 band EQ excellent MIDs band of variable-frequency response. Using MusiQ set is optimized to equalize the slope (Q). 

Record bus 
Recording each channel output to monitor, equipped with bus switches that can be set independently of me. 

USB audio 
Treating the audio data on a computer in the live sound and music production is no longer or common sense. In the ZED series mixers, flexible and easy to do this. Level but if you finally connected to the input jack of the sound card on the back of the computer, or noise and terrible. Such experience is another thing of the past. If ZED USB connection and select the USB routing on the mixer, just select the device with computer side. You can also easily leverage effect plugins to audio application on a computer and DAW. 

Build 
Internal base of the mixer for the majority in one piece, knobs and switches are installed there. But in the ZED series front panel per channel basis arranged vertically and each knob on the front panel are stopped with the metal nut. That can stand up to years of use, the more solid build structures like this. 

Free download IK Multimedia Inc. 'AmpliTube X-GEAR is possible. 
Such coveted preamp, power amp, Cabinet and stomp effects, rack effects modeling plug-ins 'AmpliTube'. You can buy ZED-10/10 FX can play any combination of Powered by AmpliTube series all stompboxes, amps, cabinets, AmpliTube X-GEAR to download free of charge. It is possible in combination with ZED-10/10 FX class A FET preamp, great guitar and bass sounds to create. (Mac OS X and Windows XP compatible. ) 
* AmpliTube X-GEAR is not supported by the KID. 
* Please check manufacturers website for details of how to download, authentication methods.