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Originally Posted by Tim Halligan I thought they named it after the zodiac sign - Virgo - as they have that whole Capricorn/Libra/Gemini thing happening...well, that was how Mark Crabtree explained it to me...
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Hi Tim
They were making the first V's when I was at Neve in 1985.
In 1992 the Siemen's group lost patience with how Neve was being run (in my humble opinion) and amalgamated the company with Mark's AMS with massive redundancies.... that's seven years later.
Neve always had a policy of naming their consoles after local villages and the town in Scotland where the modules were assembled... Melbourn, Meldreth, Shepreth, Kelso, etc.
The V wasn't so much a name as a contrived designation character like the numbers they attributed to their other products.
With respect to Mark, I believe that his version is just a wild guess.
