dLive
128 Channel / 64 Bus
Digital Mixers
Designed for Live
dLive is Allen & Heath’s flagship digital mixing platform, designed for demanding touring, corporate AV, houses of worship, broadcast, and install applications.
dLive MixRacks & Surfaces
dLive MixRacks
dLive Surfaces
dLive S Class & C Class Compared
S Class
dLive S Class hardware is designed for professional touring, broadcast, and permanent installations, with dual power supply slots for redundancy, and dual redundant audio connections.
With higher-grade metal on the sides and folded steel at key points for added rigidity, dLive S Class is built to endure everything that you can throw at it. Without missing a beat.
C Class
If you don’t need dLive S Class’ fully redundant power and audio connections, dLive C Class hardware puts the same channel count and processing power in a more compact and lightweight form factor.
dLive C Class is the perfect solution where space is at a premium, such as theatres, houses of worship, educational establishments and corporate AV.
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High Power. Low Latency
Built around our 96kHz XCVI processing core, all dLive systems feature 128 input channels, 64 mix outputs, a configurable 64-bus architecture, our acclaimed DEEP Processing, and class-leading 0.7ms latency from analogue in to analogue out.
Bus processing latency is automatically compensated for to deliver phase coherency on mix outputs, providing clear and accurate summing, without any increase to the super-low system latency.
Modular System Design
Unrivalled Flexibility
dLive’s modular mix-and-match approach to system design enables you to build the perfect system for your application with all the control and I/O you need, from high input count multi-surface setups to ultra-compact surfaceless setups, with minimal configuration and setup time.
And moving between different dLive systems isn’t a chore, show files can be easily transferred between dLive systems without time-consuming show file conversion or reconstruction.
Supermassive I/O
The XCVI core’s parallel mixing engines enables over 800 system inputs and outputs, which can be achieved via our exhaustive range of I/O and digital networking options, to feed the 128 input processing channels and 64 mix outputs.
The powerful tie-line feature can be used to directly patch system inputs to outputs, with the MixRack automatically handling sample rate and format conversion, for clean splits and feeds to other systems, all without consuming any input channels or processing power.
Bus processing latency is automatically compensated for to deliver phase coherency on mix outputs, providing clear and accurate summing, without any increase to the super-low system latency.
Studio Classics And Live Favourites On Every Channel
Trusted by platinum-selling artists on stadium tours, DEEP puts incredible emulations of legendary hardware directly within dLive’s input and mix channels with zero latency. No burning FX slots, no 3rd party gear hassles and no issues with latency or phase coherency.
From much loved studio compressors to game-changing live source expanders, DEEP gives you all the tools you need inside the MixRack.
Dynamic EQ. Multiband Compression. And Lots Of It
Every dLive system includes 64 Dyn8 engines, comprising 4 bands of multiband compression and 4 bands of dynamic EQ, which can be used to tame unruly vocals, add cohesion to IEM mixes and tighten up any source or bus.
Dyn8 can be used on any combination of 64 input or mix channels in a dLive system.
Cutting Edge technology. Next-generation effects
The RackUltra FX collection, powered by the new RackUltra FX card, brings together a collection of 10 new algorithms that rival the most advanced plug-ins on the market.
This cutting-edge hardware enables a suite of advanced vocal tools, including Vocal Shifter for radical alterations, Vocal Tuner for natural pitch correction, and Vocal Gridder for snappy, modern pitch effects.
Beyond vocals, the RackUltra FX card offers Spaces Reverb Designer and Plate Reverb Designer for crafting stunning reverberation, a trio of Harmonisers for rich vocal layering, and powerful tone-shaping tools like the Saturator and Amp+Cab Distortion. These professional-grade effects bring unparalleled sonic versatility to dLive, empowering engineers across all genres to achieve studio-quality results in live settings.
Work Smarter
dLive includes numerous tools to make the setting up and running of a show as quick and easy as possible for the engineer.
From our next-generation 61-band RTA to Shure and Sennheiser RF integration, A/B/C/D inputs and Talkback Groups to Virtual Soundcheck, dLive allows you to spend more time working on the mix and less time worrying about the technology.
Do More with Scenes
dLive’s extensive scene management system packs a host of powerful features including highly granular recall filters and global safes, absolute and relative parameter updates across multiple scenes with auto-tracking option, cue-lists for simplified handling of set lists and cues, plus a scene import function for visiting engineers.
I/O Expansion
Everything I/O
Audio Networking
Offline Editing. Online Control
dLive Director is a multi-platform editor and control software for dLive, enabling engineers to configure the system offline before the show, check and edit Show files from guest engineers, and control the mix live using a laptop or compatible tablet.
Designed for Mac and Windows OS (including Surface Pro), dLive Director offers the same experience across different devices, and replicates every aspect of the Surface GUI for complete control of a dLive system.
Personal Mixing App
4You is a free personal mixing app for dLive, Avantis, SQ, and CQ series mixers, enabling performers to control their own monitor mix from their Android or iOS devices and freeing the audio engineer to focus on the front-of-house sound.
Remote Mixing
MixPad provides mobile control for dLive digital mixing systems, giving you the freedom to walk the room or stage and control the sound right from where it’s needed.
dLive MixPad and the dLive Surface can work together to provide simultaneous control of independent functions, for example one engineer using the Surface to mix front-of-house sound, and another using the iPad to mix monitors on stage.
Personal Monitoring
OneMix is a personal mixing app for dLive, allowing performers to take control of their own monitor mixes.
dLive OneMix can be configured to provide as much or as little control as needed, and multiple iPads running OneMix may be connected to give each musician control of their monitor mix without the risk of affecting the other monitors or front of house mix.
Modular Control Options
dLive is compatible with our range of networkable, PoE compatible remote controllers which can be programmed via the dLive Surface or Director software, and configured to control any aspect of the system.
IP Controllers can be used in conjunction with a dLive Surface for additional control, or in a surfaceless system as the main source of tactile control.
Customisable Software Control
Custom Control is a customisable, cross-platform control app, providing elegant, bespoke control over dLive, Advantis and AHM Systems.
The design of the app interface is via Custom Control editor software. Access to all levels, mutes and sends is provided, together with preset recall, source selection and metering. Tabs can be configured for easy access to multiple control pages or zones. A library of control designs is provided, with the option to add custom graphics to match the venue. Once complete, the configuration is uploaded to the AHM processor, Avantis or dLive MixRack, ready for deployment.
The integrator can freely design multiple user interfaces, tailored to different user levels and/or device types. For example, a bartender can be presented with a simple phone interface, while the AV operator can access uncluttered levels and routing on their tablet, but more comprehensive control when using their laptop.