Jerry Harvey
Orlando, FL
Owner, JH Audio
Question:
In-ear monitors, in many ways, require such a personal touch and trust between the performer and the manufacturer or, in your case, the inventor. In your earliest days of developing IEMs, was there one artist who really challenged you?
Answer:
It was Alex Van Halen. He is the reason I have been designing IEMs for 30 years now. He pushed me for better audio quality that didn’t exist back in ’95. That led me to inventing the multi-driver passive crossover IEMs. That was when I founded Ultimate Ears.
Fast forward 30 years and now we are using active crossover and processing to make the ears perfectly tuned. Alex would be very pleased with the Pearl microspeaker processor. That’s the audio quality that he wanted way back when!
