Mike Shipley

Mike Shipley is an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. At the Grammy Awards of 2012 he won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category for his joint work on Paper Airplane (April 2011), by Alison Krauss and Union Station. Shipley's music career spanned more than 30 years, mostly working in Los Angeles. Shipley returned to Australia and completed secondary education at Camberwell Grammar School (class of '74) in Melbourne. He then returned to London, where he started as an assistant at Wessex Sound Studios, and worked with Sex Pistols and Queen. His first engineering sessions were during the punk rock explosion of the late 1970s and early 1980s and included recordings with The Damned. He worked alongside Mutt Lange for decades. His contemporaries at Wessex include producers Roy Thomas Baker and Chris Thomas, and engineers Tim Friese-Greene and Bill Price. Shipley also worked with Def Leppard on their albums, High 'n' Dry (1981), Pyromania (1983), Hysteria (1987) and Adrenalize (1992). Asked to work with The Cars, Shipley relocated to Los Angeles in 1984, where he had since been based until his death.