Allen & Heath ZED-22FX – 22-Channel Touring Quality Mixer with Onboard FX and USB I/O (AH-ZED-22FX)
$1,199.99
Price: $1,199.99
(as of Jan 17, 2025 05:36:07 UTC – Details)
Built-in Effects and It’s Record Ready Too! A solid mixer with great effects! The ZED-22 FX is the perfect center to your live rig — and it’s also ready to rock in the studio. First of all, the Allen & Heath ZED-22 FX gives you all the connections you need to hook up a small band, duo, or solo performer. Thanks to the 16 mic/line channels you can connect all the mics and DI boxes you need. Plus you’ve got three dual stereo channels available, each with a gain and 2-band EQ control. The FX in the name, though, is what takes the cake. Here, you can get tweaky with 16 separate effects for nailing the perfect, polished live sound with the ZED-22FX. The record-ready Allen & Heath ZED-22 FX will be the centerpiece to your live sound rig!Tons of power under the hood Those guys and gals at Allen
DuoPre XLR Microphone preamps, including 48V Phantom power for condenser microphones and up to 69dB of gain. Each preamp uses two gain stages to provide a full and accurate sound across the entire gain range with enough power for even the most gain hungry mics.
A 100Hz High Pass Filter on every mono input allows unneeded low frequencies to be removed, then the 3-band MusiQ EQ with swept mid frequency uses carefully selected frequencies to ensure your sound sculpting is always musical. Cut or boost highs and lows with shelving EQ and use the mid frequency selection to choose exactly where to adjust the mid frequencies, especially useful for vocals, guitar and other instruments with a rich mid-range.
Two ‘Pre-Fade’ Auxiliary outputs enable separate mixes to be sent to monitor speakers or any feeds that require a mix of channels independent of the main mix. Another two ‘Post-Fade’ Auxiliary outputs sends signal at a level which follows the send level to the main mix, ideal for use with external FX units, feeds to subwoofers or creating a mix for streaming or recording.
A built-in, studio quality multi-FX unit provides 16 different, tweakable FX types including reverbs, delays and modulation with tap tempo to keep everything in time. These are not your average compact mixer FX either, using algorithms developed entirely in-house by our DSP experts rather than an ‘off-the-shelf’ chip.
A routable stereo-in stereo-out USB connection makes it easy to record the whole main mix or just the channels you need and enables a stereo return from the connected device to be routed back to the mix. It’s also class compliant and does not require drivers, meaning not just Mac and Windows computers can be connected, but also many mobile devices such as tablets or even smart phones.
16 Mic, 16 Line/ Inst, 3 Stereo (2 Left, 2 Right), 2 USB Audio, 1 FX Return
Customers say
Customers appreciate the audio mixing console for its clean sound, reliable performance, and simple operation. They find it easy to use, with straightforward EQ settings and plug-and-play setup. Many consider it an excellent mixer that performs above its price point for small home studios.
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8 reviews for Allen & Heath ZED-22FX – 22-Channel Touring Quality Mixer with Onboard FX and USB I/O (AH-ZED-22FX)
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NorthernLogger –
A great board that performs above its pricepoint for small home studios
This board is the hub of my home vocal studio, where I work as a professional Voiceover Artist.The ZED-14 is an easy way to route my inputs between my DAWs and other outputs (headphones at the recording desk and in the booth, studio monitors, etc.). The board also has the input and output flexibility to allow me to run Skype mix-minus set ups, telephone VOIP patches, etc., so that clients can listen to and comment on my work in real time while I’m in the booth, but I can exclude their inputs from the Mains output, so their comments don’t make it to my DAW master tracks.The USB interface is solid and doesn’t seem to introduce any problematic latency (though I monitor directly from the mains output, not from the USB Return). I also don’t notice any digital artifacting and, in fact, think that it does as well at analog-digital conversion as my much more expensive Lavry converter that’s a dedicated box in my signal chain.The entire board has an extremely solid and professional feel to it. Granted, I’m a VO artist and engineer and don’t tote it from gig to gig or hammer on it during multi-feed recording sessions, but I have a lot of confidence in the durability and longevity of the board.The mic preamps are good, but not great. For a board in this price range, they’re solid and should be fine for most gigging musicians and basic home recording. They’re very quiet with a very, very low noise floor and good responsiveness. The gain controls, 100Hz Hi-pass filter, and 3 band EQ all perform their jobs, and the sweepable mid-frequency EQ is a really nice feature.Unfortunately, for what I do, the preamps don’t have the chops to deliver on powerful Voiceovers with top-shelf tube mics. I can’t hold that against the ZED in the rating, though. It’s not billed as a full signal chain solution; in order to get the sound I need, I have to run through a channel strip with a compressor, more powerful pre, de-esser/limiter, and a more surgical EQ.Overall, this board is a critical part of my studio and sound chain. It’s flexibility allows me to offer client services that other boards don’t, and until I started pairing it with boutique tube mics it met all of my daily needs.
S. Rose –
5 stars but it is not perfect~
5 Stars because I love it, it is loaded with features, it sounds amazing and at the price – it is. However, that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Quality at cost is excellent. Sound quality was above what I expected, and to be fair – I’m a harsh critic and expected to be disappointed. I have a lunchbox setup with some pro quality pres, some of the best, so I have a reference. However, I needed many more simultaneous channels for recording bands all at once. I decided to replace an older smaller board. This unit holds its own in sound quality and most likely won’t disappoint. I was very impressed with my first recordings through it. The EQs worked well, it just worked and sounded nice. I love the inserts for out/in routing… great for going to an audio interface and mixing to a monitoring solution. So with all that, what’s not great? Well, +48V is all 16 channels on or off. That is lame. No ribbons need apply here. And the USB interface is 2 channels, which is lame for a board with this many channels. But it’s doubly so when you realize MacOS will let you link audio interface units but then you realize that the interface is just 44.1k and 16bit… the lowest of the low of modern digital sampling. It makes the USB part mostly useless since you want higher quality masters to begin with and won’t use this despite having it. And I figure many bought it for that selling point because it wasn’t clear what you were getting. Lastly, the faders have nice travel, but are far too light in feel… not cheap per say, but they slide too easily for proper mixing IMO. I like some tactile feedback… and these don’t have it. Again, for the cost, highly recommended… as long as you understand the critiques are valid and are real limitations compared to more expensive gear.
J. Colon –
Excellent Mixer with Effects…Won’t break the bank either!
I orginally bought a Heath & Allen ZED-12FX from an online music distributor (who will remain anonymous!). It turned out that I need more inputs than what the unit had. So, I decided to upgrade to the ZED-22FX…actually found it cheaper on Amazon…more than $150 cheaper! Same quality as the “big guys”. This mixer has it all…enough capability to turn your basement into a studio, or play out somewhere on a medium-size gig with ease. It will easily handle any external music device and any instrument/XLR mic input. The 3-band EQ is fairly straight-forward to use, and you can even adjust the amount of effect to each channel…a nice feature if you want more reverb on the vocals but a lesser amount on the drums. The effects are definitely studio quality, and will stand up to an rank-mounted effects you can buy. All sliders have a pro-feel to them, and it even comes with the Roland X2 Sonar (Calkwake) software to record directly from the mixer to your laptop using the included USB cable. I use it for every gig my band plays in, and all of our practices too. I even go direct to my powered FOH speakers and the sound is clear as a bell! I highly recommend this mixer, you will not be disappointed!
azahel s. –
MI producto llego incluso antes del tiempo establecido, llego en perfectas condiciones y con su instructivo y poliza de garantia como deben de ser en todos los productos.
S lakshminarayanamurthy –
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Sanderson Dear –
Allen & Heath win the day. Great board. I weighed up the whole Soundcraft vs. Allen & Heath debate when it came time to replace my almost 15yr old Mackie. Decided on this gem and Axe Music got the goods to me in a super fast manner. Thanks guys.
Amazon Customer –
Very bad
rm –
What can i say?Its a nice board, the EQs sound nice and it does exactly what it says on the tin – very happy customer :DWill definitely deal with this company again.