Lij Shaw – Grammy Awarded Recording Engineer

Lij Shaw speaks with OWC RADiO producer and host, Cirina Catania. He shares a bit about his Grammy awarded recording studio, The Toy Box Studio in Nashville. And if that isn't enough, we also get a chance to hear about his yearly adventures with Hay Bale Studio at Bonnaroo, and his sessions with some of the world's greatest musicians! They also discuss how Lij relies on OWC gear for his workflow and he shares detailed insight on its everyday use. In This Episode * 00:17 - Cirina introduces Lij Shaw, a chart-breaking, award-winning music and podcast producer and the host of the podcast, Recording Studio Rockstars. Lij is also the owner of the Grammy awarded The Toy Box Studio in East Nashville, TN.* 07:03 - Lij describes the work that goes into doing a full studio setup for their Bonnaroo recording studio.* 15:32 - Lij expresses how he prefers to mix while the band performs rather than doing a lot of work in post-production.* 21:56 - Lij talks about his podcast, Recording Studio Rockstars, and the gears he uses for interviews and production.* 27:33 - Lij tells the story of how he bought a vintage MCI board console that was supposedly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to put on display.* 36:17 - Cirina and Lij discuss how OWC equipment helps them with their heavy workflow using storage and machine reliability.* 43:40 - Lij tells how he quit his two jobs in London and left to join his brother’s band in Hong Kong.* 50:16 - Cirina asks Lij how he handled shifting from analog to digital recording and the differences between the two.* 56:06 - Lij shares some of the memorable moments he’s had with musicians throughout his music industry career.* 63:40 - Visit Lij Shaw’s website, Toy Box Studio at toyboxstudio.com, and listen to his podcast, Recording Studio Rockstars, at recordingstudiorockstars.com. Jump to Links and Resources Transcript This is Cirina Catania with OWC Radio. I have Lij Shaw on the line. I cannot tell you how many awards this man has won, how many groundbreaking music projects he's been involved with. And I have been doing some research also in prep for this interview. T here's just so much. Lij, welcome. I've been reading about you, been listening to some of your work, and you have an amazing history. So how are you? What's going on today?  I'm doing good. It's a pleasure to be here, Cirina. And today, I don't know what date this airs, but in Nashville, it's just gorgeous outside. The summer has landed here. I think we just had the summer equinox. Every morning is beautiful, and you can mow your lawn till nine o'clock at night.  That's awesome. I'm in San Diego. And it's also nice, and the hummingbirds are flying around the feeders. But I talked to a friend of mine in Berlin this morning. It's 104 degrees there.  Well, that is hot. It'll get close to that at some point this summer. So you just came back, I don't know, it's recently from Bonnaroo–where you are running the Hay Bale Studio. Can you tell people what Bonnaroo is? And I love what you did with the double-wide.  Oh, cool. Yeah. So this was actually my 15th year doing that. And the Bonnaroo festival is a festival of about 80,000 ticket concert goers. And then you probably have like another 20,000, and I'm sure on top of that are the staff, so you got 100,000 people who descend on Manchester, Tennessee. And at the beginning of this thing, at the birth of this thing,