The musicians at this workshop have decades of experience rocking with musical legends and Grammy-award winners such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Spock’s Beard, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Metal Allegiance, Genesis, Miles Davis, the Fringe, and many more, blending styles ranging from metal, jazz, prog rock, and thrash to funk, folk, and pop. Whether shredding or delicately improvising, these seasoned musicians form a quartet defying genre and conventionality. As a recording engineer, you will help these incredibly diverse musicians create tracks that will appear on Stu’s upcoming album.

After taking a music production class in high school, Shawn began engineering for local bands and opened his first studio in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, when he was 20 years old. He played drums, produced, and engineered his way to a string of professional touring tech jobs with a host of big-name artists such as Counting Crows, Goo Goo Dolls, Avril Lavigne, Santana, All American Rejects, and Billy Talent. Now he works at Sweetwater Studios as a producer, engineer, and front of house mixer for several of Sweetwater’s venues, including the new Clyde Theatre.