Company Profile

• A music recording studio and production house
• Located in Fairlands, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Begun in 2001
• Production clients include numerous independent artists, bands and record labels
• Post-production work includes mixing and mastering music for independent producers and artists
• Completed over 220 master recordings and 10 commercial releases to date

Shaw Music Studios, a division of Ibilion Music, is run by Jonathan G. Shaw, a professional record producer, sound engineer and music businessperson. The business's primary focus is on delivering quality music recordings for clients, which include artists, bands and major/independent record labels. Services provided by the business are:

• Composition and suggesting music material to record
• Music arranging and sequencing
• Suggesting and hiring musicians to perform
• Supervision of rehearsals
• Performing both control room and studio work at recording sessions
• Guiding the artist's performance
• Post production work including editing, mixing and mastering

Shaw Music Studios is a recording studio offering benefits such as relaxed time for creativity, concerted effort, good quality service, ethics, knowledgeable insight, fair prices and a friendly atmosphere. While being based in Johannesburg, Shaw Music Studios can supply certain services internationally such as post-production, arranging and certain types of production but generally the client will need to be present at the premises for their sessions. For the beginner artist, not only are they recording with an experienced producer, but the legal advice and experience gained from the writing and recording process is invaluable for the future. Issues such as royalties and contract are an important part of the creative process and are never overlooked.

Shaw Music Studios offers at it's core professional music production. This entails many sub categories of:

• composition (song writing and music arrangement),
• sound engineering (recording, mastering, production, etc.),
• creative production (sound creation, ambiance, ideas and concepts),
• marketing psychology (consumer behaviour, music marketing and music psychology).

• personal enjoyment,
• further review by A&R executives,
• client music education,
• other studio projects\albums,
• artist promotion and advertising,
• commercial release

The business can supply jingles and voice-overs for TV or radio commercials as well as facilitate in putting together voice-over portfolios for multimedia packages. Hear Jonathan Shaw in an online presentation for a new service called BrandSocial: watch the presentation on their website www.brandsocial.co.za.

Company History

Jonathan G. Shaw began Springboard Music in 2001 as a music development business. The company's vision was to uplift local musicians by providing quality demonstration recordings and advice. The company changed its name in 2003 to Shaw Music Studios to reflect the more serious nature of work that the business had started to acquire. By 2004 the studio was being utilised as a full production service. The studio was acquired by Ibilion Music in 2009.

Mr Shaw has extensive experience and has been working full-time in the music industry since 2005. In high school he started a rock band, which achieved moderate success and developed his intense interest in music. After school, with the encouragement of his parents, he attended the University of the Witatersrand and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Marketing and Information Systems. Following this, he enrolled at Inhouse Audio Training and graduated with a Certificate in Sound Engineering at the top of his class. Following this he returned to Wits and completed an Honors Degree in Marketing specialising in music business, for which his dissertation "Marketing Popular Music with Branding: Double Jeopardy in the Music Industry" received a first mark. During this study time Mr. Shaw developed his recording studio and again amended its vision to focus on production and post-production services. He also runs a music consultation and marketing company call Ibilion Music. Go to www.ibilion.com to find out more. In 2010 Jonathan obtained a distinction (98%) for the Digidesign Pro Tools 110 certification. He has been studying and practicing music for twelve years.

Experience of Jonathan G. Shaw

Mr Shaw has produced more than 200 full tracks for around 30 artists making up more than 10 different albums. These also exclude the significantly large amount of post-production work (genreal recording, voice overs, editing, mixing, mastering) done for different clients. Take a look at the growing list below:

Key:
Prod. = Record producer
Eng. = Sound engineer, including recording, mixing and mastering
Perf. = Performer including session work and arranging
Writ. = Songwriter including collaborator