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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 newsroom@bnd.com. This article was originally published in the ...