Peter Watts (born 2 February 1960) is a designer of pro audio equipment who is recognized as a leader in his field.
[1] Watts spent a total of 35 years designing analog and digital audio recording consoles.
At the age of 16, Watts began working at Trident on the mixer assembly line in their factory on the Shepperton Film Studios lot.
In 1976, he showed company co-founder Malcolm Toft an idea he had for a computer-based mixer automation system, using a Sinclair Spectrum computer, which could change equalization settings automatically without using voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCA).
Toft liked the idea and it became the basis for the automation of the Trident Di-An (digitally controlled analog) mixer.