San Francisco Magazine, December 2009:

“For 36 years, rock and roll’s elite made albums and mayhem at the Record Plant, in Sausalito—but a little more than a year ago, the place was foreclosed on, and the music died. For the people who recorded or worked there, the studio will be remembered as the site of remarkable creative convergence, in which a flush music industry drunk on a seemingly endless supply of great bands discovered a place where musicians could always count on having a seriously good time.”   Read more >>>

Pt. Reyes Light, 2009-04-09:

“The door to John Neff’s Inverness laboratory opens to an imposing stack of Marshall amps. Inside, Neff sits alone, hunched before an array of dials, knobs and buttons. Upon all the windowsills stand lines of empty wine bottles.

Neff wears a salt-and-pepper goatee and reading glasses. He’s tinkering with a track by Nightsage, the Gothic band in which he plays guitar and keyboard. He wants to demonstrate the powers of his Yamaha mixer.”   Read more >>>

West Marin Citizen:

“Inverness recording engineer and producer John Neff was awarded a Platinum
Album for his engineering work on the 2008 album (CD) 'Revelation' by the
rock band Journey.

Recorded at the legendary Plant Studios in Sausalito, the CD was certified
Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2008. Former
Plant Studios owner Arne Frager and his wife Mari Neff presented the award to
Neff on March 29 at a musicians mixer hosted by Bay Area Sound Studios.”

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Mix, March 25, 2008:

“The phenomenally successful band Journey has recorded a Greatest Hits album plus an album of new material with engineer John Neff and producer Kevin 'Caveman' Shirley. Sessions took place with new lead singer Arnel Pineda at Sausalito’s famed The Plant recording studio ‘B’ and employed the new Telefunken | USA U47 recreation of the legendary vintage tube large diaphragm condenser microphone.

'We were set to go with the studio’s classic U47', recalls John Neff. 'It’s a microphone that has played a key role in hundreds of gold and platinum albums, but when we set up we heard a strange high end whistling. I suspected the tube might be going bad and went into a near panic.' ”   Read more >>>

Mix, Nov. 13, 2003:

“Engineer and accomplished musician John Neff (pictured, photo by David Lynch) is the chief engineer and manager of David Lynch’s Asymmetrical Studio. Among the favored tools he turns to for his everyday audio processing needs, in addition to special projects, are Waves' plug-ins.

Neff uses Waves' Gold Bundle for a wide array of audio processing applications, along with the Restoration Bundle for sound effects. Neff recently used Waves products for the recently released Eraserhead, which is available at www.davidlynch.com. “It was a year-and-a-half process to clean the master," Neff explained. "David had every single frame done digitally by hand in high-definition.”  Read more >>>

Mix Dec. 1, 2005:

“San Francisco Bay Area — based audio engineer/film mixer John Neff recently completed a mix of Michael Franti's new documentary film, I Know I'm Not Alone, at The Plant Studio's The Garden Studio in Sausalito, Calif. The film looks at the lives of people living under foreign military occupation, specifically in Iraq, Palestine and Israel. Neff mixed using Pro Tools|HD and numerous Waves plug-ins. The film's mix stems were monitored and folded down in the studio's SSL 8096 console.”   Read more >>>