Bob Heil, the audio industry legend who pioneered the Talk Box – and worked with the likes of Peter Frampton and The Who – has died aged 83. The news was shared via a social media post published by ...

Microphone manufacturer Heil Sound has new top leadership for the first time in its 56-year history. The Illinois-based company said Bob and Sarah Heil have transferred ownership to current ...

RIO RANCHO, NM--Lectrosonics and Heil Sound have entered into a strategic partnership. The agreement, reached in late November 2007, has resulted in a new handheld wireless microphone. The first ...

A private family service will be held in memory of Bob Heil, a metro-east native known for revolutionizing the sound systems used by rock bands in the 1970s and creating a high-powered “talk box” used ...

Revered music industry technician Bob Heil, best known for inventing the Talk Box effect unit, has died at the age of 83. According to the Belleville News-Democrat, Heil passed away after a cancer ...

Bob Heil's career as a groundbreaking sound engineer who brought thunder and rich sonic coloring to tours by rock titans like the Grateful Dead and the Who began behind a pipe organ in a 1920s movie ...

From our “Who’s Buying What” page: WSIE 88.7 “The Sound” recently put in a bunch of Heil Sound microphones as part of a studio upgrade project. The mics were donated by the manufacturer. The station ...

Bob Heil holds a microphone used by Roger Daltrey of The Who that is part of the Heil Sound exhibit opening at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in June 2006. In the upper left corner is a ...

A BND series about what makes Belleville, St. Clair County and southwestern Illinois a unique place to live. Send questions and tips to [email protected]. This article was originally published in the ...