with the industry's rising stars. Hugh is one of the owners of the indie label Gearbox Records. The "gated drum" sound Padgham is credited with creating the "gated reverb" drum sound used so prominently on Phil Collins' single "In the Air Tonight", and which became the template for much of the recorded pop drum sound of the 1980s. The effect is believed to have first been used on the 1980 third self-titled solo album by Peter Gabriel, which Padgham engineered and on which Collins played. At this time, Padgham was working regularly as the recording engineer for noted UK producer Steve Lillywhite, and they collaborated on many well-known albums and singles in the early 1980s. Padgham's gated drum effect is created by adding a large amount of heavily compressed room ambience to the original drum sound, and then feeding that reverb signal through an electronic device known as a noise gate. This unit can be programmed to cut off any signal fed through it, either after a specified time interval (in this case, some tens of milliseconds), or when the incoming signal falls below a preset gain threshold. The result is the arresting 'gated reverb' effect, in which the reverberation cuts off abruptly, rather than fading away. In a 2006 interview, Padgham revealed how the effect was first engineered: The whole thing came through the famous "listen mic" on the SSL console. The SSL had put this massive compressor on it because the whole idea was to hang one mic in the middle of the studio and hear somebody talking on the other side. And it just so happened that we turned it on one day when Phil [Collins] was playing his drums. And then I had the idea of feeding that back into the console and putting the noise gate on, so when he stopped playing it sucked the big sound of the room into nothing. Collaborators Artists for whom Padgham has produced or engineered include: 311 Bee Gees David Bowie (Tonight) (1984) Kate Bush Toni Childs Clannad Paula Cole Phil Collins (Face Value, Hello, I Must Be Going!, No Jacket Required, ...But Seriously, Dance into the Light) Julian Cope Sheryl Crow The Dream Academy Melissa Etheridge Mick Farren Julia Fordham The Fixx Peter Gabriel (engineer, Peter Gabriel (1980 album)) Genesis (Abacab, Genesis, Invisible Touch) Hall & Oates Nicky Holland The Human League I Was a Cub Scout Elton