I had written an article on console design (RE/P magazine) back in 1980 and he was one of the few people in the industry who believed my claims about current source summing. Steve walked up to me at a trade show a couple years later and told me he used my idea in a broadcast console (Alice?) where the reduced noise gain was very helpful to reduce potential for rectification in the buses due to high RF fields.
The closest I ever came to working with him was later when I was at Peavey and he did some design consulting for us on a digital console project. AFAIK the project never saw production but I do recall seeing a working prototype channel strip. Some may think it unusual for an old analog dog to be working with DSP, but its just another tool that works very well and Steve is a talented designer.
My best Steve Dove story is when he was touring with AC/DC and I visited with him backstage before a show in Hartford CT. It was the Hells-Bells tour and the fire marshal had them test fire the pyro. Steve and I were in a closet sized backstage office talking when they blew off the loud explosion inches away from our door. The crew got a good laugh as our room filled with smoke and we staggered out.
I haven't talked to Steve in years but last I heard he was living in PA.
JR