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December 15, 2015

Heil Sound Celebrates “50 Years of Maximum Rock & Roll”

(Fairview Heights, IL) , known worldwide as a manufacturer of high performance, dynamic micro- phones, is marking 2016 as “50 Years of Maximum Rock & Roll.” The yearlong celebration will kick off at the Winter NAMM show in January. A commemorative podcast series of interviews with company founder is also scheduled to debut in January. This series will highlight the history of Heil Sound as well as the many innovations in live sound that Heil brought to the industry.

Founded in 1966, the company was first known as Ye Olde Music Shoppe, a located in Marissa, Il. The store had a reputation among the pros who were touring nationally as a place to shop and have repairs done. In addition to running the store, Bob combined his interest in pipe organs – he became the house player for the organ at St. Louis’ Fox Theater at the age of 15 – and amateur (ham) radio, and began experimenting with live sound systems. Soon Ye Olde Music was supplying full sound system packages for venues and festi- vals throughout the Midwest.

In 1970 Bob received a call from the ’s on a tour stop in St Louis asking for help. The band’s gear – and sound mixer – had been “detained” in and Bob was asked to provide a sound system for the show. Bob and his crew brought his gear to the show, and it was such a huge success the band hired them on the spot to join them on the road. Bob Heil recalls, “After the show Jerry said to me, ‘you should change the company name to Heil Sound.’ We did that and the rest is history!”

Heil Sound went on to tour with (Bob created the quadrophonic sound system for the band’s Qua- drophenia tour), Humble Pie, The James Gang and many others. The iconic Heil , made famous by and , was also introduced.

By 1982 Heil Sound had curtailed the touring side of the business and concentrated on developing products for the market. A home theater division was also launched to take advantage of the massive interest from consumers in high quality audio. These two distinct markets – ham radio and pro audio – came together in 2006 when Joe Walsh, an avid ham operator and friend of Bob’s, called to suggest that Heil Sound develop for use. Since that fateful call Heil Sound has been at the forefront of dynamic design and manufacturing. Their PR35 vocal mic has become a “go to” mic for many high profile artists and the PR30 and PR40 are staples in not only concert sound, but also broadcast and studio use. The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland features an exhibit dedicated to the company’s many innovations with early products and memorabilia.

Heil Sound, now with Bob’s wife and business partner, Sarah Heil as president, continues to be a driving force in microphone design.

For more information, visit http://www.heilsound.com

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December 15, 2015

Heil Sound Brings Back The Heritage

(Fairview Heights, IL) Heil Sound has reintroduced the Heritage, a stylish dynamic microphone with a vintage look that is equally at home in live sound, recording, and broadcast applications. The exceptional performance found in the Heritage is achieved by the use of a special magnet structure with a large 1 1/4” aluminum low mass voice coil assembly similar to the Heil PR 20.

The frequency response is 50 Hz - 18 kHz with a mid range boost at 4 kHz, which results in incredible bril- liance and presence. Special attention has been paid to the phasing plug assembly with equally placed ports that sense audio from the back of the microphone entering those sounds out of phase. The result is a tight cardioid pattern with superior rear rejection. The Heritage has a slide switch that turns the audio on and off and has a small lock screw that can lock it in position.

The Heritage comes in two finishes; chrome with blue, and black matte with blue.The chrome finish is a special “show chrome” where the steel body is copper plated and then double chrome plated producing a deep chrome finish. A molded internal foam windscreen inside the grill covers the Heil dynamic microphone element mount- ed in a specially tooled rubber shock mount. Standard 5/8”-27 microphone stand threads allow The Heritage to be mounted on booms or floor stands.

For more information, visit http://www.heilsound.com

Press Contact:

Greg McVeigh Guesthouse Projects, Inc. www.guesthouseprojects.com