1. Arthur Rupert Neve was a British-American electronics engineer and entrepreneur, who was a pioneering designer of professional audio recording equipment.
25 Facts About Rupert Neve
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Rupert Neve designed analog recording and audio mixing equipment that was sought after by professional musicians and recording technicians.
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Rupert Neve received a Technical Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 1997.
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Arthur Rupert Neve was born on 31 July 1926 in Newton Abbot, England.
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Rupert Neve spent much of his early childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father was a missionary with the British and Foreign Bible Society.
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Rupert Neve began designing audio amplifiers and radio receivers from age 13.
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The start of World War II increased demand for radios and Neve began repairing and selling radios.
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Rupert Neve began his career after the war as a designer of public address systems, and recorded speakers and singers on lacquer discs, including recording running addressal systems and recording prime minister Winston Churchill's speeches in the 1940s and distributing their recordings to radio stations for broadcast.
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Rupert Neve provided the public address systems for Queen Elizabeth, then a princess, at the opening of the St Andrew's Church, Plymouth, which had been rebuilt after being destroyed in the Blitz.
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Rupert Neve worked in the 1950s with Rediffusion, a forerunner of early cable TV systems.
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Rupert Neve left the company, and formed CQ Audio, a company specialising in the manufacture of hifi speaker systems.
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Rupert Neve started out by designing and building a mixing console for composer Desmond Leslie, from Castle Leslie, Ireland, where the original desk is still housed.
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Rupert Neve built a transistor-based mixing console with an equalizer for Phillips Recording Studio in London in 1964.
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Rupert Neve sold his company Neve Electronics and worked with Manchester-based Amtek Systems in 1975.
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Rupert Neve worked on microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and early large format mixing consoles.
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Rupert Neve is often credited for designing the modern recording console.
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Rupert Neve's first company was a manufacturer of high-end recording consoles in England.
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The original Rupert Neve group was sold to Siemens in 1985.
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Rupert Neve was later sold to Tom Misner of the School of Audio Engineering.
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Rupert Neve made rack-mounted recording equipment, outboard gear, dynamic processors, and equalizers.
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Rupert Neve started ARN Consultants, a consulting firm, with his wife in 1975, during a period of non-compete agreement with Rupert Neve Electronics.
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Rupert Neve entered the project studio market with its Portico series, which enabled modular mixing and recording components.
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Rupert Neve won multiple TEC Awards in recognition for their product innovation.
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Rupert Neve was married to his wife, Evelyn, for nearly 70 years until his death.
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Rupert Neve died on 12 February 2021 in Wimberley due to pneumonia and heart failure.