Chris Shaw

Producer Mixer Engineer

For Booking information contact:
Adam Katz  | Next Wave Mngmt.
adam@nextwavemanagement.com

The Engineer's Elvis

I was elected to the Board of Govenors of the Texas chapter of the Grammys a couple of months ago and the first big event I participated in was yesterday - a salute to audio legend and Texas resident Rupert Neve. Rupert's contribution to the audio world cannot be overstated. If you were Claude Monet then Rupert would be the man who invented blue paint. 

  Also in attendance were two other engineering legends - Alan Parsons and Geoff Emerick. Amongst other albums Alan is most well known for recording and mixing Dark Side of the Moon. If that were the only thing he did he would still be cemented in audio history. 

  Geoff Emerick of course was the recording engineer for the Beatles. He started out as an assistant in their early days and at the ripe old age of twenty became their chief engineer. On the first day in this new position he recorded "Tomorrow Never Knows". Let that sink in for a moment. 

   It was an incredible afternoon. I met him briefly and was only able to ask him for the opportunity to take a picture. I was completely star struck to say the least. 

Oh yeah. It was Rupert's 91st birthday and they baked him a cake that was shaped like a 5088 console. As he cut into it he said "this is quite possibly the sweetest console I've seen".

 

 

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Geoff

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Rupert

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Alan  

Partner "Everyone Knows You're High", "Sex Object"

I mixed this a while back. If you're a Weezer fan, you're welcome…
(Scroll Down in the widow below for the Soundcloud links)

 

oeksound Soothe

This plugin works miracles on vocals with annoying hi freq resonances (and I'm not talking about de-essing). No more automating notch EQs. I wish I got it before I started mixing the project I'm on now instead of getting it in time for the last mix.

Trust me. Demo it. Buy it here.

Thank me later.

The day after the election…

"While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it."