Five-time Grammy Award-winning mixer, engineer and producer F. Reid Shippen (Kenny Chesney, Ingrid Michaelson, Gloria Gaynor) shares his take on the special bond between mixing and mastering engineers.

Watch as Shippen reflects on when he first discovered the work of Grammy-nominated mastering engineer, owner of @infrasonicsound, and now long-term collaborator Pete Lyman (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile).

#TilYouMakeIt chronicles stand-out moments from the careers of the world’s most esteemed producers, mixers and engineers.

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Well, uh, we met on Tinder, and, uh, no, I’m totally kidding. Ha, ha, ha.

The first time I knew of Pete is I did a record, and they sent it out for mastering, and I didn’t know who was mastering it.

It came back and it sounded amazing. And it sounded like [FAMOUS MASTERING GUY] Right? Who is incredible. And I was like, Oh, I know who you guys sent this to, you sent it to …. I recognize this. It’s killer.

And they were like, No, this is Pete Lyman. I was like, Who’s Pete Lyman? That’s how we met. He ended up, um, moving to Nashville and we just ended up collaborating on a bunch of stuff because our styles are pretty compatible.

You start to curate the relationships that are simpatico, and Pete and I work really well together, so it just kind of became a natural fit.