Tchad Blake

Tchad Blake (born 1955) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician.

Early life Tchad Blake was born in 1955 in Baytown, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Blake would spend both his childhood and adolescent years in Baytown and Los Angeles, California.

Career As of 2026, he has worked with many notable artists and musicians including Al Green, Arctic Monkeys, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, Gerard Way, Halloween, Jed Davis, Marike Jager, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Phantom Planet, Phish, Richard Thompson, Sam Phillips, Sheryl Crow, Soul Coughing, The Bangles, The Black Keys, The Dandy Warhols, The Pretenders, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, and U2, among other artists.

Blake often partners with Mitchell Froom, and the two formed Latin Playboys with David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez of Los Lobos.

Blake is known for his use of binaural recording, an experimental recording technique which employs two microphones to create a 3-D stereophonic sound. Blake brought a binaural microphone — a device resembling a human head with microphones positioned at the ears — into the sessions for Pearl Jam's Binaural (2000); the album was named for the technique, and Blake's binaural recording is most audible on the track "Soon Forget".

Personal life Blake currently resides in Powys, Wales.