"Four Track Zach" - Zach Shipps' RV Audio Lab

About this episode

Zach Shipps discusses his journey in sound recording and music production, sharing insights from his career and current projects.

One of our all-time favorite engineers, Zach Shipps, joins us to talk about his life-in-sound(-recording)! Shipps takes us from the 90s, during his formative years as a music fan and musician who, even back then, was fascinated with recording technology and the techniques of the producers working behind the scenes of his (and our) favorite albums! Shipps was known as The Colonel during his time as a guitarist for The Electric Six, and has also worked with The Atomic Numbers, Mood Elevator, and Brendon Benson. In our chat, we dug into the early 2000s, when Shipps started getting deeper into a role as an engineer, aiding in the production of some of the best local albums of the last quarter-century! Towards the end, Shipps lists off some of his current projects, many of which will see the light of day soon, including the latest from Jesse Shepherd-Bates, and more! Tune in!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff, Chad

Guest: Zach Shipps

Topics covered

• sound recording
• music production
• engineering
• local albums
• 90s music
• 2000s music

Keywords

• Zach Shipps
• sound recording
• music engineering
• The Electric Six
• local albums
• music production
• 90s music

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Electric Six, The Atomic Numbers, Mood Elevator

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