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Robert Gene Heil (October 5, 1940 – February 28, 2024) was an American sound and radio engineer who created the template for modern rock sound systems. He founded the company Heil Sound in 1966 [ 1 ] and built touring sound systems for bands such as The Grateful Dead and The Who . [ 2 ]
Heil Sound Communications, Inc is an American manufacturer of professional audio equipment based in Fairview Heights, Illinois.The company was founded by Bob Heil in 1966, and is well known for inventions in live sound, the Heil Talk Box and a variety of high-quality microphones and headsets for use in commercial and amateur radio.
The Wall of Sound was an enormous sound reinforcement system designed in 1973 specifically for the Grateful Dead's live performances. The largest concert sound system built at that time, [1] [2] the Wall of Sound fulfilled lead designer Owsley "Bear" Stanley's desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring ...
The long-time owner of Heil Sound Company in Fairview Heights and Belleville resident made many innovations that shaped rock music in the 1970s and 80s, but none are as well known as the Heil Talk ...
Frampton said in the same interview that the sound it produced reminded him of an audio effect he loved listening to on Radio Luxembourg in the later 1960s. Frampton acquired one as a Christmas present from Bob Heil in 1974. It was a hand-built talk box in a fiberglass box using a 100-watt high-powered driver.
February 28 – Bob Heil, 83, American organist, sound engineer (founder of Heil Sound), amateur radio operator (K9EID) and host (Organ Music on WTWW, Ham Nation on TWiT) [53] March 8 – Ramya Wanigasekara, 73, Sri Lankan actress, singer, and radio broadcaster [54] March 10 – Svetlana Morgunova, 84, Russian television and radio host [55]
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Bearsville Sound Studio was an independent residential recording studio founded by Albert Grossman in the Bearsville section of Woodstock, New York.From the late 1960s through the early 2000s, the studios were the site of notable recordings by numerous artists including Todd Rundgren, Meat Loaf, Tesla, R.E.M., Jeff Buckley, Dave Matthews Band, Phish and others.