Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (died 2013)

Michael Shipley was an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. He mostly worked in Los Angeles during his career of more than 30 years. At the Grammy Awards of 2012 he won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for working on Paper Airplane by Alison Krauss and Union Station. Shipley died in July 2013, aged 56, of an apparent suicide.