Mike Shipley

Mike Shipley
Shipley in 2013
Background information
Birth nameMichael Shipley
Born(1956-10-07)7 October 1956
Sydney, Australia
OriginLondon, England
Died25 July 2013(2013-07-25) (aged 56)
Studio City, Los Angeles, United States
Occupations
  • Mixing engineer
  • audio engineer
  • record producer
Instruments
  • Drums
  • guitar
Years active1976–2013

Michael Shipley (7 October 1956 – 25 July 2013) was an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. Shipley's music career spanned more than 30 years – mostly working in Los Angeles. 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 died in July 2013, aged 56, of an apparent suicide.