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Welcome to Sean Shannon's page, where you can listen to Sean's work and watch live recorded video from concerts and sessions. Sean is a DW Drum Artist, and a veteran of world touring and studio production and engineering.
BIO:
As a drummer/engineer, Sean has made music with artists like Molly Hatchet, Billy Payne (Little Feat), Pat Travers, Brian Howe (Bad Co.), Les Dudek, Rob Rock, Impellitteri, Charlie Daniels, and many others, and has worked on records with producers Dennis MacKay (David Bowie, Judas Priest), Malcolm Springer (Collective Soul, Faith Hill), and Steve Thompson (Guns n Roses, Metallica).
Sean studied audio production with Dave Moulton and percussion with Dr. Theodore Frazeur at SUNY Fredonia's Tonmeister Program, then found himself in Florida running sound for Sea World. He ended up meeting and working with great musicians like Pat Travers, Molly Hatchet, Les Dudek, Brian Howe, and many others by getting to work making records and building studios. Sean founded The Mixing Workshop, an audio ear training and mixing course for audio engineers, and writes articles about mixing for Recording Magazine.
Sean co-wrote and mixed the single "Home To Me" for Outbound Road ("Hard Country" 2012), which spent 21 weeks on the charts, reaching #2 on the Top 30 Indie Charts. He also performed on and engineered Pat Travers' Blues On Fire (2012 Cleopatra), which made it to the top 5 on Amazon's Blues Chart, and produced and performed on the 2013 Pat Travers CD "Can Do" for Frontiers Records.
Sean is currently available for touring and recording, and can be reached at mixmonsterz@aol.com, or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/seanshannonspage
"Sean has been making great recordings for years but, around the same time I got my falsetto back and started writing a lot of songs, he found a new tone, or a new way to tune his recording room. All of a sudden his mixes became something really special. And I think it’s kind of hard to put your finger on any one thing; it was just a natural progression and Sean’s now found a place that’s almost like a sweet spot."
Pat Travers - fabricationsHQ
"So we went to the classic rock station here in San Diego this morning. They played "Can Do"...Sounded epic coming over the airwaves, great job!"
Kirk McKim - Facebook
"Other than Tommy Aldridge [Sean] is my favorite drummer you have had in the Pat Travers Band........Would love to see him back in the PTB..."
Paul Broderick - Facebook
"Sean is truly amazing in the studio. Some things you just have to see to believe."
Willie Kissling - Facebook
"Sean, the CAN DO album is the best mix I've heard in years. You balanced exceedingly well, bringing PTB solos, the drumming and other passages to the front of the mix at the proper times. And you captured the vocals really well, which sound great the entire album. Fantastic job!!"
Charles W. Wilson - Facebook
"Hard Country is an excellent album, chock-full of tracks that deserve to be heard on mainstream, rock and country radio stations on both sides of the pond."
Ross Muir - fabricationsHQ
“The songs on Fidelis are exactly what any Pat Travers fan (Hammerheads) would come to expect, guitar jamming blues rock with soulful, passionate vocals, but don’t think for a minute that that means the same old thing.”
Kat Coffin - Examiner.com
“Man, you drummers that can groove that hard to a click are alien! From another planet!”
Malcolm Springer - Producer
“Gaia Miranda's "All in Time" is a Melancholy Musical Masterpiece!”
Joseph Militello - Yahoo! Voices
“I'm usually critical of most audio magazine articles, but I enjoyed yours immensely and - amazingly - agreed with every single point you made. One of the best mixing type articles I've read in years.”
Ethan Winer - Gearslutz
“Great lyrics, Sean!”
Rick Derringer - Rick Derringer Band
“I wouldn't trust my vocals to anyone else!”
Rob Rock - robrock.com
“That mix sounds f***in awesome!”
Pat Travers - The Pat Travers Band
“I just checked out Barry Myers new Album "7th Avenue" on ITunes! Very Good! Great Guitar,Smooth Vocals and engaging tunes! Rocks just the right amount! Great job! I Recommend! Floydish!”
Headliner - Jango
“You get the best drum sounds I have ever heard!”
Mark Richenberg - Independant Songwriter
