Tim Palmer is a British music producer, audio engineer and songwriter of rock and alternative music.
In the early 1980s Palmer was an assistant engineer at Utopia Studios in London where he worked with musicians such as Mark Knopfler and Dead or Alive. Later in the 1980s he produced acts such as Robert Plant, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Mission, Gene Loves Jezebel, and The House of Love. In 1989, Palmer produced Tin Machine's debut LP.
In the 1990s, Palmer turned his attention to mixing and remixing, working with bands such as Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Blue October, Sponge, James, Catherine Wheel, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Cure, and Concrete Blonde. He also produced Tears For Fears' Elemental (1993) and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995) albums.
Palmer moved to Los Angeles, CA to build his own mixing facility. He mixed several tracks on U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind and produced the albums Dark Light and Venus Doom by HIM as well as Switchfoot's Oh! Gravity. He also co-wrote and produced Ozzy Osbourne's 2001 album Down to Earth, and mixed Porcupine Tree's album In Absentia in 2002.
He mixed Julien-K's debut album - Death to Analog, which released on March 10, 2009. In the same year he worked with the Goo Goo Dolls on their ninth studio album, Something for the Rest of Us, and mixed Norwegian rock band Malice in Wonderland's single City Angel. In May 2010 Palmer worked on tracks for Tarja Turunen's album What Lies Beneath. He also produced and played guitar on Blue October's album, Any Man In America.