All Pro Sound: Allen & Heath GLD FULLY EXPANDED

Description/Specs

Allen & Heath's GLD digital mixing system is a user-friendly, cost effective and scalable live digital mixing system, conceptually based on the hugely successful digital iLive series.

GLD Digital Fully Expanded Mixing System Includes:

One GLD-80 digital mixer.
One AR-2412 main AudioRack
Two AR-84 expander AudioRacks
Cat5E Cable

The GLD FULLY EXPANDED System gives you 48 inputs, 30 outputs. That's a total of 44 mic inputs (40 mics at the rack plus 4 mics at the mixer).

At the heart of the system is the GLD-80 mixer, providing 48 input processing channels, 8 stereo FX returns fed by iLive’s acclaimed FX emulations, 30 configurable buses, 20 mix processing channels, and DSP power to provide full processing without compromise.

GLD-80 Details:

GLD-80 has an analogue-style channel processing control section complemented by a graphical 8.4 inch touch screen. A fully-customisable drag ‘n drop layout allows quick and easy assignment of inputs and mixes to fader strips. There are 20 fader strips in 4 layers, each with motorised fader, a channel LCD display which can be named and colour-coded, plus a rotary control for direct access to gain, pan and aux/FX sends. The mixer‘s local I/O comprises 4 XLR mic/line inputs, 4 XLR line outs, 4 RCA inputs, 2 RCA outputs, and digital outputs in SPDIF and AES3 formats.

Highly customizable to fit your needs:

The GLD-80 connects to a range of plug ‘n play I/O racks to ‘build’ 28, 36 or 44 mic input systems. A primary AR2412 rack (24 XLR inputs, 12 XLR outs) and up to two AR84 expander racks (8 XLR inputs, 4 XLR outs each) can be connected over 120m CAT5 runs using A&H’s dSNAKE protocol. dSNAKE provides control to the remote preamp, and all mic preamps are scene recallable. AR2412 also includes a connection for personal monitoring systems.

GLD has the ability to record and playback a stereo signal on a USB memory stick. Standard iLive audio I/O option cards for Dante, MADI, EtherSound and Allen & Heath's ACE protocols can be fitted, allowing multi-channel record/playback, FOH/monitor splits, and connection to A&H iLive systems, which can easily be configured using GLD's extensive soft-patching.

Compact digital mixer with scalable, remote I/O
Systems from 4 to 44 mics
Easy to use, quick to access, analogue style interface
dSNAKE Cat5 digital snake—up to 120m cable length
8.4 inch colour touchscreen for graphical view and setup
20 faders, 4 layers, 80 channel strips in a freely customizable layout
48 input channels into 30 assignable buses (Aux, Group, Matrix, Main, FX Send) into 20 mix outputs
8 stereo RackFX engines with dedicated ‘short’ returns with 4-band PEQ
Full processing on all inputs including trim, polarity, HPF, insert, gate, 4-band PEQ, compressor and delay
Full processing on all outputs including insert, PEQ, GEQ, compressor and delay
LR, None (monitors), LR+M (sum), LR+M (bus), LCR main mix modes
16 DCAs / mute groups
Built-in Talkback, RTA and Signal Generator
I/O module options for FOH/Monitor split, multitrack recording, link to iLive and more
MIDI In/Out and Ethernet Network port
AviomTM compliant Monitor port on main AudioRack
High end 1dB step recallable mic/line preamps
User definable channel names and colours
Engineer’s mono Wedge and stereo IEM strips
Input, output and insert soft patchbays
Quick copy, paste and reset of mixes and parameters
Libraries, Scenes and Show memories with USB transfer
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