Dave Jerden

David Jerden (July 25, 1949 – February 5, 2025) was an American record producer, audio engineer and mixer. He is best-known for producing, engineering and mixing albums recorded by a variety of bands from the mid-to-late 1980s and 1990s, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Alice in Chains, Social Distortion, the Offspring, Anthrax, Fishbone, Meat Puppets and Spinal Tap. He had also engineered and mixed albums by the Rolling Stones, Talking Heads and Frank Zappa. However, Jerden had stated that he disliked the term "producer", preferring to refer to himself primarily as an engineer.