Malcolm Toft

Audio engineer and businessman Malcolm Toft was the engineer for the album. He worked at Trident Studios, first as an audio engineer, then as the studio's manager, and eventually as co-founder of recording console maker Trident Audio Developments. Toft went on to form another console company, Malcolm Toft Associates, which eventually led to the founding of Toft Audio Designs and then Ocean Audio. Toft is also co-owner of The Music Mill Studio. In 2009 he was awarded a visiting professorship by Leeds College of Music. He is also a member of the University of West London Student Advisory board which mentors students during the last year of their degree courses in music technology. He worked with Visconti on Prophets, Unicorn and Beard of Stars and on David Bowie's Space Oddity album. He later engineered James Taylor's debut album and was the mix engineer on The Beatles' song "Hey Jude."