Michael " Mike " Shipley ( 7 October 1956 – 25 July 2013 ) was an Australian mixing engineer , audio engineer , and record producer . Shipley 's music career spanned more than 30 years – mostly working in Los Angeles . At the Grammy Awards of 2012 he won the Best Engineered Album , Non-Classical category for his joint work on '' Paper Airplane '' ( April 2011 ) , by Alison Krauss and Union Station . Shipley died in July 2013 , aged 56 , of an apparent suicide
Grammy Awards of 2012
54th Annual Grammy Awards
Mike Shipley