Wally Heider

Wally Heider
Born
Wallace Beck Heider

(1922-05-22)May 22, 1922
Sheridan, Oregon[1]
Died(1989-03-22)March 22, 1989[2]
Occupation(s)Recording engineer, entrepreneur
Wally Heider with Bill Putnam 1984

Wally Heider (né Wallace Beck Heider; 20 May 1922 Sheridan, Oregon – 22 March 1989) was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and remote recording and was instrumental in recording the San Francisco Sound in the late 1960s and early 1970s, recording notable acts including Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Santana.[3]

Heider also amassed a collection of remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s, preserving some of the only known recordings of complete arrangements of many notable artists of the era, including entire sections of arrangements that otherwise had to be cut from recordings made in commercial recording studios, due to timing constraints of recording technology at that time.

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  3. ^ Silvers, Emma (10 November 2016). "Into The Mix: How One Tenderloin Recording Studio Shaped the 'San Francisco Sound'". KQED. NPR. Retrieved 4 April 2022.