Allen & Heath GLD-80 Brochure

ACCESSIBLE, FLEXIBLE, DIGITAL

GLD inherits the key benefits of our iLive pro touring system and
makes them affordable for the kinds of hardworking rental
companies, houses of worship and live venues that have used and
loved our GL series analogue mixers for many years.

GLDGLD is more than a mixer—it’s a complete digital mixing system.
Our dSNAKE Cat5 digital multicore together with our plug ‘n’ play
audio racks and expanders make it simple and affordable to build
the system as your needs grow. Networking cards let you link GLD
systems, make multi-track recordings or connect with other

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to personal monitoring systems.

Analogue

Analogue veterans, digital converts and novices alike will feel at
home with GLD, thanks to a balance of WYSIWYG analogue-style
controls and intuitive touchscreen interface. The layout and
appearance of the GLD-80 can be customised quickly and easily,
providing an interface that logically mirrors your application and
puts the operator at their ease.

compatible Monitor port allows connection

As you would expect from Allen & Heath, GLD delivers outstanding

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audio performance, with a new high-end mic preamp, low latency
and the DSP muscle to provide full processing without
compromise. GLD-80’s FX engines are taken directly from the iLive
system and feature beautifully crafted emulations of industry
classics.

Finall

Finally, a system that delivers all the benefits of digital mixing at the
price of an analogue mixer—and that’s before you think about all
the outboard gear it replaces.

CORE FEATURES

• 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

• 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

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• Aviom

• High end 1dB step recallable mic/line preamps

• User definable channel names and colours

• 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

• Get started quickly with Template Shows

compliant Monitor port on main AudioRack

ULTIMATE USER EXPERIENCE

Touchscreen

GLD-80 features a colour touchscreen with on-screen keyboard and dedicated data encoder for
instant and intuitive access to all key functions and parameters. The user friendly interface has been
designed from scratch with simplicity in mind:

Analogue style processing strip

GLGLD-80 puts essential controls like Preamp, HPF,
Gate, Parametric EQ and Compressor right at your
fingertips. Hit the Select key on a channel strip and the
processing strip becomes the controls for that input or
mix, with clear visual displays of current settings and
dedicated, analogue style controls.

Customizable surface layout

2020 faders arranged in 4 layers means you get access
to 80 independent channel strips. Not only can you
design your own mixer by arranging them across the
surface, but each one comes with a write-on display
where custom names and colours for easy
identification are coupled with information relevant to
the current mix mode.

Assign strips to Inputs, FX, Mix masters, DCAs or
engineer’s Wedge/IEM.

Quickly control gains, pan and two custom
parameters such as aux or FX sends with the fader
strip rotary encoders.

Manage your mix with 2 buttons. Access all the
processing for each strip with Sel and Mix
parameters/contributions.

Drag ‘n’ drop channels to customize the surface strip layout.

Tap on a socket to patch an input or output channel