F. Reid Shippen

F. Reid Shippen is a mixer, engineer and producer, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has mixed a wide variety of records including Cosmic Hallelujah by Kenny Chesney, Lights Out by Ingrid Michaelson, The Mountain by Dierks Bentley, When I Was Younger by Colony House, and Eye On It by TobyMac. Shippen has mixed nine Grammy Award winning projects and received the Audio Engineer of the Year award at the 54th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.

Biography

Growing up in Fair Haven, New Jersey, F. Reid Shippen performed in bands and eventually decided that he wanted to pursue a career in music. He attended Middle Tennessee State University where he graduated with degrees in Business and Recording Arts & Sciences. While in college, Shippen interned at a variety of studios in Nashville, Tennessee, such as Quad Studios and Skylab Studios, quickly transitioning from assisting to engineering. In 1999, he began to concentrate on mixing.
With numerous years of experience in the studio, Shippen has mixed multiple platinum and gold records and hundreds of charting singles and albums, including nine Grammy Award-winners. He was awarded Audio Engineer of the Year at the 54th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
Shippen has mixed, engineered, and/or produced music for respected artists in a variety of genres, from Death Cab for Cutie, A Fine Frenzy, Cage the Elephant and India.Arie to the Jonas Brothers, Marc Broussard, Eric Church and Robert Randolph. He has also worked with Clay Aiken, Jonny Lang, Flyleaf, Switchfoot, Backstreet Boys, Third Day, MercyMe, and Newsboys, among others. Most recently he won a Grammy for his work on Gloria Gaynor's album Testimony for which he was a co-producer, mixer and engineer.
Shippen resides in Nashville, Tennessee and works out of Robot Lemon, his private Solid State Logic hybrid studio, where he mixes. In addition to mixing, Shippen produces, records and is actively involved in artist development. In 2018, he founded SongFarm alongside songwriter Ross Copperman, a non-profit organization that builds recording studios and provides musical creative opportunities for under-served high schools. Shippen is also a co-founder of the audio gear company Atomic Instrument Co., but is no longer associated with the company. He is an affiliated artist with various audio gear brands including sE Electronics, Unity Audio, and Chandler Limited.

Select discography

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Credit
2020	Parker McCollum	Hollywood Gold	UMG Recordings	Engineer, Mixer, Programming
2020	Mickey Guyton	Bridges	Capitol Nashville/UMG Recordings	Engineer, Mixer
2020	Kenny Chesney	Here And Now	Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville	Mixer, Programming
2020	The Cadillac Three	Country Fuzz	Big Machine Label Group	Mixer, Programming
2020	Eric Paslay	Nice Guy	Paso Fino Records	Producer, Engineer, Mixer
2019	Gloria Gaynor	Testimony	Spring House Productions	Producer, Engineer, Mixer
2019	Toby Keith	Greatest Hits: The Show Dog Years - "Don't Let The Old Man In"	Show Dog/Thirty Tigers	Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Programming
2019	Zac Brown Band	The Owl	BMG Rights Management	Mixer
2018	Dierks Bentley	The Mountain	Capitol Nashville	Engineer, Mixer, Programming, Synthesizer Bass
2018	Kenny Chesney	Songs For The Saints	Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville	Mixer, Programming
2018	David Lee Murphy	No Zip Code	Reviver Records	Mixer, Programming
2018	Lucie Silvas	E.G.O.	Thirty Tigers	Mixer
2017	Kelsea Ballerini	Unapologetically	Black River Entertainment	Mixer
2017	Lauren Alaina	Road Less Traveled	Mercury/Interscope/19 Recordings	Mixer
2017	Chase Rice	Lambs & Lions	Broken Bow Records	Mixer
2017	Colony House	Only the Lonely	RCA Records	Mixer
2016	Ingrid Michaelson	It Doesn't Have To Make Sense	Spirit Music Group/UMG	Mixier
2016	Kenny Chesney	Cosmic Hallelujah	Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville	Mixer, Keys, Programming
2016	Dierks Bentley	Black	Capitol Nashville	Engineer, Mixer
2016	Steven Tyler	We're All Somebody From Somewhere - "Janie's Got A Gun"	Dot Records	Mixer
2016	OneRepublic	Oh My My	Mosley Music/Interscope Records	Engineer
2015	Kelsea Ballerini	The First Time	Black River Entertainment	Mixer
2014	Ingrid Michaelson	Lights Out	Spirit Music Group/UMG	Additional Production, Mixer, Programming
2014	Colony House	When I Was Younger	Descendents/RCA Records	Mixer
2013	Lady A	Golden	Capitol Nashville	Mixer
2010	The Afters	Light Up the Sky	INO/Columbia/Sony	Mixer
2009	Eric Church	Carolina	Capitol Nashville/EMI	Mixer
2008	The Afters	Never Going Back to OK	INO/Columbia/Sony	Mixer
2006	Jonny Lang	Turn Around	A&M/Sony	Mixer
2006	Mat Kearney	Nothing Left to Lose	Aware/Columbia/Sony	Mixer
2006	India.Arie	Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship	Motown/Universal	Mixer
2002	India.Arie	Voyage to India	Motown	Mixer

Songs on compilations

Shania Twain – "Today "
Minus the Bear – "My Time"
A Fine Frenzy – "Happier"
Flyleaf – "All Around Me"
Needtobreathe – "You Are Here"
Robert Randolph and the Family Band – "Get There"
Uncle Kracker – "All I Can Do Is Write About It"
Death Cab for Cutie – "Little Boxes"
Jonas Brothers – "Poor Unfortunate Souls"
Awards

Year	Recipient/Nominee	Award	Result
2001	dc Talk – Solo	Best Rock Gospel Album	Won
2001	CeCe Winans – CeCe Winans	Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album	Won
2002	India.Arie – Voyage to India	Best R&B Album	Won
2006	Third Day – Wherever You Are	Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album	Won
2006	Jonny Lang – Turn Around	Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album	Won
2009	Various Artists – Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration	Best Traditional Gospel Album	Won
2011	Chris Tomlin – And If Our God Is for Us...	Best Contemporary Christian Music Album	Won
2012	TobyMac - Eye On It	Best Contemporary Christian Music Album	Won
2019	Gloria Gaynor - Testimony	Best Roots Gospel Album	Won

Affiliated studios

Current

Robot Lemon – 2009–present
Past
Battery Studios
Masterfonics
Oceanway Studios
Quad Studios
Recording Arts : 1999–2004
Skylab Studios
Sound Kitchen
Sound Stage Studios : 2004–2009