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Limited One Year Warranty This product is warranted to be free from defects in materials or workmanship for period of one year from the date of purchase by the original owner. To ensure a high level of performance and reliability for which this equipment has been designed and manufactured, read this User Guide before operating.
CONTENTS DEVELOPMENT CHANGES SERVICING PRECAUTIONS AND GENERAL NOTES PARTS IDENTIFICATION • How to order parts • Exterior parts • Interior parts SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE SPECIFICATION ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 3 - of 24...
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DEVELOPMENT CHANGES NOTE: These changes have been implemented at the factory as part of our ongoing development policy. They are not critical to the basic function of the unit. It is for the owner / service engineer to decide to update a unit with development changes. ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339...
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Servicing Precautions – General Notes Service personnel: Service work should be carried out by technically qualified service personnel only. Mains power is dangerous and can kill. Do not attempt to work on a linear or switched mode power supply if you are not suitably qualified to do so. Do not attempt to repair surface mount circuit assemblies unless you are suitably qualified and have the necessary facilities to do so.
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Testing the unit: Before operating the equipment, read and adhere to the Important Safety Instructions printed in the user guide. Test that the service work has been successfully carried out. Shipping the unit: Use adequate packing such as the original packaging or purpose designed flight case if you need to ship the unit.
Side moulding EXTERIOR PARTS: Left AA6741-L Right AA6741-R Mono channel Push button Gain AI3838 square grey AJ7210 HF AI8004 Knob blue AJ6949 Q A6718 G AI8004 Knob blue AJ2075A F AI8009 Knob black AJ6106A LF AI8004 Push button round grey AJ3955 AUX AI8003 Knob grey...
Monitor section Meter LED bar AE5474 TALK LEV AI8111 Talkback mic AM0914 Push button rect black AJ7182 Phones LEV AI8007 CRM LEVEL AI8007 Large headphone jack AL6893 Small 3.5mm headphone jack AL5323 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 10 - of 24...
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MIDI & key mat MIDI AI6718 Rubber Key mat AA67081 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 11 - of 24...
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Connectors Mic XLR AL2412 RCA phono RCA phono O/P XLR AL2413 AL6830 AL6830 All Jacks are AL6893 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 12 - of 24...
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Studio PCB 003-819 Aux master 003-820 Master LR 003-821 Master out 003-822 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 15 - of 24...
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Meter R 003-823 Fader 1 003-824 Fader 2 003-827 Fader master 003-825 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 16 - of 24...
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Fader slave 003-851 Keypad 003-826 Master distribution 003-828 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 17 - of 24...
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PSU 003-849 ALLEN&HEATH ZED R-16 service manual AP7339 Page - 18 - of 24...
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SOFTWARE: ZED R-16 comes with Sonar cakewalk. Here is the overview and instructions: cakewalk SONAR LE DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION SONAR LE Overview. SONAR LE is a software application from Cakewalk and is included free of charge with your new ZED mixing console. SONAR LE is a powerful first step into the world of sequencing and hard disk recording on the Windows platform.
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System Requirements. System Minimum Recommended Requirements Operating System Windows XP Windows XP/Vista/Vista x64 Processor Speed Intel® Pentium® 4 1.3 GHz, Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz or AMD™ Athlon XP 1500+ or [EM64T], or AMD™ Athlon 64 higher 2800+or higher 256 MB 1 GB or higher Graphics (resolution, 1024 x 768, 16-bit color...
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Next, fire up SONAR LE. Click Options/Audio and click on the Drivers tab. The Input drivers are the audio sources to the computer, here we have enabled the USB Audio Device which is the ZED mixing console USB device, and disabled the audio from the soundcard in the pc.
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To record the audio on tracks 1 & 2, click the R buttons so they light up red, then the record button (circle) on the transport controls on the top icon toolbar. (Or select larger transport controls from Views). The audio wave profile will show in the track panes. Click stop (Square) when finished.
SPECIFICATION: Operating Levels Inputs Mono channel (XLR) Input -6 to –60dBu for nominal (+nndBu in max) Mono channel Line Input (Jack socket) +10 to –26dBu (+30dBu maximum) Insert point (TRS Jack socket) 0dBu nominal +21dBu maximum Stereo Input (Jack sockets) 0dBu nominal (control = Off to +10dB) Stereo input (phono sockets) 0dBu nominal (control = Off to +10dB)
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THD+n Mic in to Mix L/R Out, 0dB gain 1kHz +10dBu out 0.004% Mic in to Mix L/R Out, 30dB gain 1kHz 0.014% Line in to Mix L/R out 0dB gain 0dBu 1kHz 0.005% Stereo in to Mix L/R out 0dB gain +10dBu 1kHz 0.003% USB Audio CODEC (Coder/Decoder) USB Audio In/Out...
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