About Us.

Lead Designer Jeff Hedback is an acoustician, a professional musician (bass player), and a trained recording engineer. It is this blend of experiences and skills from both sides of the control room glass that anchors every HdAcoustics project.

Since 2007, HdAcoustics has provided acoustical consulting and pro recording studio design services for more than 1,000 projects.  Prior to opening his own shop, Jeff spent seven years honing his acoustical design craft at industry leading Auralex Acoustics. This time at the humble “foam” company was a special snapshot in time in learning: an acoustics masterclass under the mentorship of highly respected Acoustical Engineer, Jeff D Szymanski (PE). 

During his time at Auralex, Jeff Hedback was awarded a US Patent (now expired) for being the primary developer of the Auralex GRAMMA speaker isolation riser. This product is found worldwide under guitar amps, bass rigs and home theater subwoofers.

Jeff graduated Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music (’87) majoring in Music Production and Engineering with a minor in bass performance.

As a session and touring bass player (1987 to present), Jeff has credits on several national releases (Arista Records, CBS Records, Rounder/Philo Records). He has performed as a headliner, support act, and background chatter in all types of spaces ranging from the largest stadiums, outdoor venues, theaters, worship spaces, down to the smokiest clubs. To this day he continues to study and gets inspired by all things that are bass.

Here are some select mentors and life events that are important to today’s HdAcoustics.

• First bass mentor (started lessons at age 9), Jack Phelan.  His playing was “organic” but educated, plus he played a Hofner!
• Jeff studied bass for two years under The Bass Whisperer himself, Ed Friedland.
• Tom Dowd.  Although Jeff never met Mr. Dowd, there was the old Studio D at Berklee that Mr. Dowd had designed.  All the other rooms were recently built at that time to be state of the art. However, the small but mighty Studio D (1″ 8-Track) kept giving back the best sounding projects.
• …first job out of Berklee was as an assistant engineer at a studio designed by Russ Berger (more lessons learned).
• A selected list of engineers who have recorded Jeff’s bass include Ross Hogarth, David Leonard, Mark Williams and Paul Mahern.
• Playing bass guitar in nearly every type of ensemble, situation, and room type.
• Major Label Releases include Jimmy Ryser (self-titled) on Arista Records, several records of folk artist Carrie Newcomer on Rounder/Philo, and the first Lisa Germano record.
• Leroy “Lefty” Bates was a first-generation Delta Blues great.  Lefty was musicians’ musician as the phrase goes.  He was a dear friend and mentor in music and life.
• Duke LeJuene of www.Audiokinesis.com – Duke is special.  He’s not just brilliant and humble but seriously NICE.  Duke is one of the world’s best speaker crossover/network designers.  He offers boutique bass guitar cabinets, wonderful HiFi speakers and he and Jeff have worked on features and specs for several custom recording studio main speakers.
• Harold Baker is an AIA award winning architect with work featured on HGTV.  Firstly, he has a voice like a Hollywood star from the 60’s.  A single conversation with Harold is equal to a semester’s worth of Architectural Studio Classes.
• Dr Floyd Toole…if you’ve read this far…ask me about the Dr. Toole handshake…maybe I’ll share this story…maybe
• All the fantastic clients I have had the honor to work with in these years running HdAcoustics.
• Quest and obsession for perfect TONE…we will have to see what’s up next.