Butch Vig

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Image:Butchvig.jpg Bryan "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1957 in Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a rock musician and record producer.

Butch Vig first became famous in the music business in 1991 when he produced Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish. Before that he had produced lots of small punk rock bands such as Killdozer and The Other Kids.

His production work on Nevermind is widely credited as the reason that Nirvana broke through to the mainstream, going #1 on the charts (replacing Michael Jackson). Their previous album, Bleach was produced by Jack Endino and had a much dirtier sound, while Nevermind had many overdubs and studio tricks (part of this is credited to Andy Wallace. Kurt Cobain originally refused to do these overdubs but Vig reportedly got him to comply by saying "John Lennon did overdubs!").

Currently Butch Vig is the drummer of the popular group Garbage, who have released the albums Garbage (1995), Version 2.0 (1998), Beautifulgarbage (2001) and Bleed Like Me (2005) plus a James Bond theme song for The World Is Not Enough.

Together with Steve Marker (guitar player of Garbage) he also owns Smart Studios where artists such as Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage and Sonic Youth have recorded.

Butch Vig is known to use Digidesign Pro Tools audio hardware and software with Apple Macintosh computers. He has used these products to produce the majority of Garbage songs.