Rupert Neve, inventor of a mixing desk that became the gold standard in recording studios – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Gary Miller/WireImage Rupert Neve with his Lifetime Achievement Technical Grammy Award - Gary Miller/WireImage
Rupert Neve, who has died aged 94, was a British-born recording genius regarded as the “father” of the modern mixing console – the massive board with hundreds of knobs and faders that dominates studio control rooms; his equipment gave depth and power to albums by such leading rock bands as The Who, Santana, Fleetwood Mac, Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire and the Grateful Dead.
In 1997, Neve received a special merit Grammy award for “outstanding technical significance to the recording field” and in 1999 was named “Man of the Century” by Mix magazine. Yet Neve confessed a preference for “English cathedral music, large organs and choirs and soloists”. He was, also, entirely self-taught.
Rupert Neve, inventor of a mixing desk that became the gold standard in recording studios – obituary
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Rupert Neve Changed Audio Recording Forever
Rupert Neve, the pioneering designer of audio recording equipment, whose creations play a fundamental role in the modern recorded music industry, died on February 12th at his home in Wimberley, Texas. He was 94.
His company, Rupert Neve Designs, announced his passing: “It is with great sadness that we announce that Rupert Neve, whose name is synonymous with quality audio recording equipment worldwide, has died. He remained in great spirits to the end, enjoying his life in Wimberley, Texas, where he and his wife Evelyn have lived for 27 years. At 94, Rupert remained engaged and passionate about his work, spending most days on a perpetual series of audio electronics projects and continuing to mentor our engineering team on numerous design and development projects.”
Grammy-winning engineer and legendary audio equipment designer Rupert Neve has died at the age of 94. His legacy as one of the most important and influential studio and recording equipment designers cannot be overstated. Tributes have flooded in from the wider music industry including from Above & Beyond, El-P, engineer Alex Tumay, The 1975, Paul Epworth, Daddy Kev, Nigel Godrich, Abbey Road Studios and many more.
He designed the first-ever transistor-based EQ, followed by the first transistor-based console, installed in Phillips Studios in London in 1964. Up until that point, consoles were powered with vacuum tubes – or valves – rather than transistors. Neve’s design offered a new sound and stability. He was then commissioned by Wessex Sound Studio to create the first 24-channel console in London, which equipped his now-classic 1073 mic pre and EQ channel strips. Those 1073 strips are possibly Neve’s greatest legacy, still sought-after today in hardware form and modelle
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