Strengthening its presence in the live sound for broadcast and theatre communities, Studer has named Rob Hughes as Market Sales Manager, responsible for sales throughout the EMEA region.

Hughes began his career in pro audio as a freelance touring engineer, spending 15 years touring the world as a sound engineer and system tech. He also spent many of those years in charge of audio at major UK festivals, including the Reading Festival, V Festival, T in the Park and Download.

After retiring from touring, he joined SSE Audio Group as Project Manager, where his responsibilities included managing the company’s stock of digital mixing consoles. In this position, Hughes kept the console inventory’s software and firmware up to date across all platforms and played a large role in training freelance engineers on the operation of the consoles. As part of this responsibility, he worked with Andy Brown of Soundcraft, assisting with Vi6 training courses.

Hughes moved on to working for Midas, looking after the UK market, and was responsible for selling Midas consoles and Klark Teknik products into the UK.

‘Now that I have joined Studer, I am very much looking forward to working with such a well respected brand, within a very strong group of companies that Harman comprises,’ he saidsays ‘In addition to serving the live sound for theatre, I am looking forward to the challenges of working within the broadcast world and learning the customer base and needs of that market.’

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