Interview with Bruno Hochstrasser

This year we celebrate Studer’s ‘60 Years of Excellence’ and I think it’s a perfect time to look back on the many eventful years. I am very fortunate that I have been privileged to witness 38 years to date of the glorious history of this company and as a member of the Studer team working with great individuals including Willi Studer himself.

From products running with vacuum tubes, then transistors and now with very highly integrated circuitry with high performance processors for control and audio; it has been a very exciting experience and all this happened in a relatively short time span.


In the past most viewed us as a tape recorder company, today we are re-born as a highly successful digital mixing console, router and systems business which is especially rewarding for all of us at Studer and Harman International. May I direct my sincere thanks to all those of you who have contributed to this success, and who have supported and worked with us for so many years.


Now we are looking forward to the next 60 years of success and great relationships with you our customers. I believe the future is bright and our current and future products shall continue to generate excitement and recognition in our industry. We continue to invest heavily in research and development which is focused on providing system solutions as well as individual products.

At the recent IBC convention in Amsterdam we demonstrated how we are protecting your investment in our products by demonstrating I/O sharing across all our current platforms, so, from the very first VISTA and OnAir 3000 consoles delivered you will soon be able to equip them with this brilliant new feature-set adding even more value to your current investment.


You can read more about this on our web site and in the next issue of Swiss Sound. And incidentally, we are proud to announce that for this exciting new development, Studer received the Star 2008 TV Technology award for Superior Technology at the IBC 2008 show.


Coincidentally, I also turned 60 years of age this year so have two good reasons to celebrate! For me it is a year of change and I am happy to inform you that operational responsibility for Studer Switzerland has recently been handed over to a younger hand, Jürgen Bopst, a great individual who will continue to lead our company and I do wish Jürgen and the team much success.


I shall concentrate on developing new markets and on customer relations – an activity I especially enjoy. I am looking forward to
visiting many of you in the near future and I am grateful to all of you for the many years of great co-operation and friendship.