Neve

[Joachim Verghese]

Juergen wrote:

> Can we *learn* to design like him [Rupert Neve] ?

I'm under the impression that Neve mixing boards became
fashionable in the mid-'80s mainly because they had a
"good-sounding" EQ section.

Now, from what I have heard, even though many people copied
the circuit they didn't end up with an EQ that had the Neve
sound, until someone discovered that there was a PCB layout
error in Neve's boards that apparently changed the
characteristics. The error was dumb enough that even Neve
themselves hadn't noticed it.

I heard this from people in the audio industry, so it should
of course be taken with a grain of salt. :-)

-joachim