johnyholiday Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Jeff Beck and Bob Heil BOB (with the longest hair at right) and the incomparable guitarist Jeff Beck. Bob was Jeff's sound engineer for more than two years 1974 - 1975. Bob and Paul Klipsch designed some special monitor speakers for Jeff to solve his monitoring problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnyholiday Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 "Reunion" Paul Klipsch, 'the legend', and one of Bob's early mentor's who taught him how to 'listen' some 30 years ago. I was honored to have Paul Klipsch, the guy who almost singlehandedly brought hi-fi to the world, call me up around '72 or '73. He wanted to come to Marissa to see what I was doing, so he flew up and spent the day with me. I had this monster 30,000-watt system. He was floored. He had never seen that many power amplifiers before and such a waste of power. He was really an efficiency bug. So he put me in his plane and flew me down to Hope, Arkansas, where he lived. He taught me more stuff than a college education. I came back home and my 30,000-watt system became 10,000 watts. And it was louder, cleaner, and more articulate with a third the power. Just because he taught me how to load speakers in a cabinet, about the efficiency of speakers, and about articulation. He introduced me to the Fletcher-Munson Curve. Fletcher and Munson figured out how our ears work, and that our ears are far from flat. If you know about the Fletcher-Munson Curve of the human ear, you can adjust the sound system to make up for those little deficiencies and bingoarticulation comes alive! Everything I've done in my career has been about articulation. Very few people even understand what that word means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnyholiday Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 Joe Walsh plays 'Rocky Mountain Way' with his Heil Talk Box. Joe has replaced all of the Shure Sm 58 with the great natural sound of the Heil PR 20. Bob built Joe this one of a kind Golden PR 20. Joe has never sounded better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Jeff Beck and Bob Heil BOB (with the longest hair at right) and the incomparable guitarist Jeff Beck. Bob was Jeff's sound engineer for more than two years 1974 - 1975. Bob and Paul Klipsch designed some special monitor speakers for Jeff to solve his monitoring problems. ...unfortunately did not solve Beck's brain or attitude problems. Great photos and story though- thanks JohnyHoliday Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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