Rupert Neve
Rupert Neve (born July 31, 1926 in Newton Abbot as Robert Schnee , † February 12, 2021 in Wimberley ) was a British audio engineer and entrepreneur. Neve was such as as a pioneering designer of professional Tonverarbeitungstechnik 1960s. Of microphone preamps , equalizers or compressors .
biography
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Neve was born a British citizen in the interwar period but grew up in Buenos Aires , where his father served as a missionary for the British and Foreign Bible Society . Even as a teenager, he worked as a hobbyist with audio amplifiers and radio receivers. During the Second World War he moved to England and volunteered as a seaman with the Royal Navy at the age of seventeen . After the war, Neve financed a mobile recording studio by repairing and selling radios, with which he recorded choirs, operas and public speeches.
In the 1950s, Neve founded CQ Audio , a company that manufactured speaker systems. In the early 1960s he also designed and built mixing consoles and founded Neve Electronics in 1961. Neve turned away from the prevailing damalig tube technology , and built from 1964 on germanium - transistors based, modular console system with tone control for the Phillips Recording Studio in London . When a market for professional studio technology arose there, Neve began manufacturing and developing modular studio components.
Neve founded and acquired several other companies, such as AMEK , Focusrite , Taylor Guitars and sE Electronics, and later moved to the USA , where he lived with his wife Evelyn and received US citizenship in 2002.
Awards
- 1989: Mix Hall of Fame
- 1997: Technical Grammy Award
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neve, Rupert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Snow, Robert |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British-American sound engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newton Abbot |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 2021 |
| Place of death | Wimberley |