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Chase Neff
Chase Neff

Chase Neff

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From The First Record Producers by W. W. Norton

… then himself in 1967, his legacy has lived on in recording studios around the world via the equipment named after him, effects boxes he had invented and kept secret some four decades earlier. Meek and Spector were the first to really understand and engineer the power of the 45, the first to forge a new pop music from the white heat of technology. Unlike almost all of their contemporaries, they realized that great pop is, at its heart, about great-sounding records. Meek and Spector weren’t trying to deal with reality, they were trying to improve on it.