About to turn 80 later this year, Wes Dooley is a Pasadena, California-based audio pioneer with strong connections to the earliest days of audio history in the United States. The founder of AEA (for Audio Engineering Associates), Dooley’s mentor was Wally Heider, a 1960s-era master of remote recording who made classic tapes of performances by Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Santana.
