Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones (born 1954) is an English record producer and audio engineer notable for working with Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten, Wire and Erasure.

Early life Jones was born in Warrington, Lancashire. When he was young he played different instruments but became more interested in music technology. He owned a simple valve tape recorder and began experimenting with tape editing.

Career Jones trained at the BBC and began working at Pathway Studios in North London. While at Pathway he recorded Madness' first single, "The Prince", in 1979 and mixed John Foxx's 1980 album Metamatic. When Foxx established his own London recording studio, The Garden, Jones began working there, and it was at this studio that he first worked with Depeche Mode, contributing to their 1983 album Construction Time Again, the first of three albums in a row that Jones would do with the band.

While working with a band in Vienna, the band's manager suggested Jones mix the recordings in West Germany, and took Jones to Hansa Tonstudio in West Berlin to do the mixing.

Gear

Jones has used the following hardware gear in the past: Roland System-100M modular synthesizer, Akai S-3200 sampler, Waldorf PPG Wave 2.v synthesizer, multiple hardware effects racks, and a Revox G36 2-track tape recorder.

In 2005, he stated that he had begun using mostly software for his productions, keeping him more mobile. However, he subsequently started collecting Eurorack synthesizer modules as the format became more popular.

Jones has used the following music software: Reason and ReBirth, VST plug-ins, Arboretum Hyperprism, SonicWorx Time Designer, BIAS Peak, TC Works Mercury-1, and Native Instruments Reaktor, FM7, B4, and Absynth. Erasure - Erasure (1995) Depeche Mode - Ultra (1997)

Erasure - Cowboy (1997) Indochine - Dancetaria (1999) Clinic - Internal Wrangler (2000) Depeche Mode - Exciter (2001) Indochine - Paradize (2002) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002) Erasure - Other People's Songs (2003) Erasure - Light at the End of the World (2007) These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (2008) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2009) Erasure - Snow Globe (2013)

Personal life Jones is married and currently living in North London.