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“We started work on digital back in 1995 with the Icon and DR install mixers. They were successful platforms that gave us the chance to learn digital.”

Glenn Rogers is the Managing Director of Allen & Heath, based in Cornwall, UK. Pictured is Allen & Heath‘s seminal System 8 studio console of the ’80s.

I started at Allen & Heath back in June 1983 as an R&D design engineer. We were an analogue mixer manufacturer. I remember at the time I insisted on getting a

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