Heil Sound was formed in 1966 to provide pro touring gear and systems, and system design and equipment for music festivals. Among his innovations is the famous Talk Box used by Joe Walsh and Peter ...

Heil Sound was formed in 1966 to provide pro touring gear and systems, and system design and equipment for music festivals. Among his innovations is the famous Talk Box used by Joe Walsh and Peter ...

Heil also used the occasion to deliver three new PR 22 microphones to be awarded during the Nashville AES Section Spring Mixer competition. The competition is a chance for students at several local ...

The audio engineer Bob Heil in 1970 at Ye Olde Music Shop in Marissa, Ill., which he opened in 1966. It was there that he began to design his own sound systems.

BELLEVILLE — Bob Heil, a music innovator credited with helping change the sound of rock in the 1970s, died Wednesday. He was 83.

The News-Democrat reported that Heil came to the rescue of the Grateful Dead in 1970 when they needed a sound system for a show in St. Louis. The band were so impressed with Heil’s powerful rig ...

Heil Sound has introduced two new microphone capsules designed as screw-on replacements for many popular wireless handhelds. The premium PR 35 microphone has been adapted in capsule form as Model RC ...

Heil Sound is adding to its warehouse of microphones, speakers and other audio equipment it supplies to the world from Fairview Heights. President Sarah Heil said the company has run out of room ...

Heil is a pioneering figure in the industry not only because he built the high-powered sound systems that made 1970s concerts the spectacle they were, according to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Private family service set for rock ‘n roll sound pioneer, Bob Heil of Belleville Belleville News-Democrat. Updated March 26, 2024 4:02 AM.

For concert sound pioneer Bob Heil, the Grateful Dead's "Truckin'" is more than a classic rock favorite. The song, which opened their five-show Fare Thee Well concerts on June 27, tells a personal ...

Heil gave rock shows the sound arsenal they needed. "We were the first company back then to build a package P.A.," he said in a 2008 interview with audio magazine TapeOp.