Arthur Rupert Neve (31 July 1926 – 12 February 2021) was a British-American electronics engineer and entrepreneur, who was a pioneering designer of professional audio recording equipment.

[1][2][3] He spent much of his early childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father was a missionary with the British and Foreign Bible Society.

[4] At 17 years of age, he served in World War II, and was a member of the Army's Royal Corps of Signals.

[2] He 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.

[6] In 1961, he formed Neve Electronics, and began designing and building mixing consoles for recording studios.

[2] Neve worked on microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and early large format mixing consoles.

Many of his long discontinued products are considered classic equipment and are sought after by the professionals in the recording industry.

[9] In 1989, he was inducted into the Mix Hall of Fame,[10] and in 1997 he was the third person to receive a Technical Grammy Award for lifetime accomplishment.

[2][11] In a 1999 survey conducted by Studio Sound magazine he was selected by his peers as the number one audio personality of the 20th century.

[17][18][19] ARN Consultants also designed the two-channel mastering box, called the Masterpiece, for Legendary Audio.

The company entered the project studio market with its Portico series, which enabled modular mixing and recording components.