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The show was a success and the Grateful Dead asked Heil, his crew, and his sound system to join them on the road. Heil's setup became a template for modern concert touring sound systems [2] and the 'Heil' brand became ubiquitous in venues across the US. [12]
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 ...
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.
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His company also installed a sound system at Bill Graham's Fillmore East. [4] He was also a part of the large rock Mar Y Sol festival in Puerto Rico in 1972. [5] In 2020, University Press of Mississippi published the book The Last Seat in the House, The Story of Hanley Sound by John Kane discussing Hanley's impact on the field of sound ...
Heil is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bob Heil (1940–2024), American sound and radio engineer, founder of Heil Sound; Hubertus Heil (born 1972), German politician; Jennifer Heil (born 1983), Canadian freestyle skier; Johannes Heil (born 1978), German music producer; John Heil (born 1943), American philosopher