WINTER PARK, FL — Full Sail University’s Show Production & Touring and Recording Arts students got a chance to meet Heil Sound’s Bob Heil, who visited the campus recently to give students a first-hand account of the evolution of audio technology.
Heil spoke, for example, about the quadraphonic mixer he made for The Who’s Quadrophenia tour, the power amplifiers he tweaked while touring with the Grateful Dead, fiberglass speakers, mixers and the Heil Talk Box he originally designed for fellow ham radio enthusiast Joe Walsh of the Eagles.
Heil, who has also worked with Pete Townsend, Jerry Garcia, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck, Paul Rogers and Tool, spoke about the launch of the new Heil microphone and how the technology could impact students.
“You would think that I would go lay down after all these years, but I start it all back up again on the other end of the cable,” Heil said, “on the microphone end.”
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