Allen & Heath SQ 7 32 local, expand to 48 inputs, 16 mix outputs

The SQ-7 is Allen & Heath's flagship SQ-series console, with 48 input channels and a 36-bus architecture spread across 32+1 motorised faders, 32+1 mic preamps, 16 assignable SoftKeys and 8 assignable soft rotaries. It runs on the XCVI 96kHz FPGA engine with under 0.7ms of latency, and every channel includes a high-pass filter, a fast gate with sidechain, a 4-band parametric EQ and a compressor.

Eight stereo FX engines with dedicated returns access the RackExtra FX library, and 12 stereo mixes can be configured as groups or auxes. The SQ-Drive feature records 96kHz stereo and multitrack sessions straight to USB, and a 64x64 network audio slot supports Dante, Waves, MADI or SLink cards.