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Meyer Sound Mourns Friend, Music Engineer Roger Nichols Meyer Sound reports the loss of Grammy-winning engineer Roger Nichols. An audio industry pioneer, Roger Nichols played an instrumental role in a Meyer Sound milestone when he inspired the company to develop the HD-1 reference loudspeaker into a near-field monitoring system for recording studios and live mixing environments. Nichols was the first engineer to use HD-1 monitors for a recording -- Flying Cowboys by Rickie Lee Jones. Other artists who worked with Nichols include Placido Domingo, Roseanne Cash, Frank Sinatra, and The Beach Boys. "It takes a visionary like Roger to steer change and break new grounds in technology," says John Meyer, CEO and co-founder of Meyer Sound. "He raised the important question about whether loudspeakers should play a neutral role in the audio chain and this opened up the path for reinforcement systems to be built for transparency and linearity. He was a talented individual who took a relentless scientific approach to improving sound." The HD-1 monitor was initially engineered to be an in-house test source for evaluating microphones for the SIM audioanalyzer. At Roger Nichols's request to use these reference loudspeakers for his studio recording work, Meyer Sound introduced the HD-1 product, which became a staple in many audio engineers' toolbox. In honor of his contribution, in 1990, Nichols was given the first and second official HD-1 systems ever built with serial numbers one and two.
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