Rupert Neve, happy 91st birthday...

True Mench.

https://youtu.be/ri_mOj0HSYo

YEAH! I posted on his Facebook yesterday. And put a video up on my facebook. If this isn't a big deal to you then you're living under a rock. We're so lucky he's an inveterate tinkerer who never rests on his laurels... because he enver had to design teh focusrite boards let alone start RND! Truly one of the greatest influences on music.

"I started to be able to serve other people. I advertised in the only journal there was at the time, a little small size ad, which in effect said, “We’ll design and make anything for anyone.” It wasn’t good advertising, you need to be far more specific than that. But I did get a call from Phillips Records, who had set up in London, and I nearly missed the contact because I was out when they called. The lady we had looking after the kids, when we returned, said there was a call for you, she hadn’t got his number, but she thought it was a “Mr. Phillips.” I called every Mr. Phillips that I knew. I was thumbing through the local telephone directory when all of the sudden I thought I should cast my net wider. So I got a London directory and came across Phillips Records, I didn’t really think it could be them, but I tried.

I called the number in the telephone directory for Phillips Records and I said, “My name is Rupert Neve.” She said, “Oh, Mr. Godwin’s been trying to call you.” She gave it to me on the plate straight away. That was the beginning of the professional recording systems, the amplifiers, the mixers and so on. They asked for all kinds of things, which really gave me a challenge, and that was the start of the Neve business."

-R. Neve