The Music Producers Guild has honoured Mr. Rupert Neve with a Special Recognition Award at this year's annual MPG Awards.
Held on February 16th at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, the ninth annual MPG Awards were attended by the UK’s top producers, engineers, and mixers, along with a plethora of industry associates and press. Mr. Neve accepted the award from Wimberley, Texas, USA, as presented by Producer / Engineer Tim Palmer (Pearl Jam, U2, Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne). The acceptance speech can be viewed here:
From Producer and MPG Awards Managing Director Tony Platt: "Most producers and engineers, both old and new, will have forged a ‘special relationship’ with some incarnation of a Rupert Neve console, channel, compressor etc. at some point in their careers, and so the MPG were delighted to present the Special Recognition Award 2017 to him. The mark of the best audio production tools is their ability to inspire creativity as well as delivering the highest quality and indeed Rupert continues to design tools that do exactly that — and what’s more he does it with flair and style."
The SOS team were invited to Texas to interview Rupert a couple of years ago and you can watch that video here:
