Hugh Padgham

Producer and engineer from London. He started as tape-operator at [l=Advision Studios]. From there he went to [l=Landsowne Studios] and became head engineer. In 1978, he started at the [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/87246-The-Town-House]Townhouse[/url] as a producer and engineer. Over the following years he would also record regularly at [l=The Manor], another of [a=Richard Branson]'s studios. He has won four Grammy Awards, for Producer of the Year and Album of the Year for 1985, Record of the Year for 1990, and Engineer of the Year for 1993. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers. Padgham's co-productions include hits by [a=Phil Collins], [a=XTC], [a=Genesis], [a=The Human League], [a=Sting], and [a=The Police].

He became known with his "gated reverb drum" by adding a large amount of reverberation by pioneering it (with [a=XTC], [a=Peter Gabriel] and producer [a=Steve Lillywhite]) used most famously on the [a=Phil Collins] hit "In the Air Tonight".

[b]Born:[/b] 15th February 1955, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England.