Mike D. Stone

Mike D. Stone
Mike D. Stone
Born	October 24, 1949
Died	December 3, 2017 (aged 68)
Occupation(s)	Audio engineer, record producer

Mike D. Stone (October 24, 1949 - December 3, 2017) was an American recording engineer and record producer. Stone worked with Frank Zappa (multiple albums), Joe Walsh, B. B. King, Bee Gees (multiple albums), America, Peter Criss, Paul Stanley, and others.

Biography

Stone began his career as a recording engineer at The Record Plant in California in 1969. His uncle Chris Stone co-owned the Record Plant recording studio with Gary Kellgren.^[1]^[2] From 1981 on, Stone was an independent audio engineer for MDS Audio. From 1985 through 1988 was the chief engineer at the Record Plant in Los Angeles and then worked as music mixer at Lorimar-Columbia-Sony Studios from 1989 until 1993.

The audio engineering references for Mike D. Stone of the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles, California, often get confused and mixed with the references of Mike Stone (record producer) of the United Kingdom who worked at Trident Studios and Abbey Road Studios, and engineered for Queen, Genesis and Asia. And their references sometimes are confused with Mike "Clay" Stone of Clay Records, who worked with largely UK punk and metal acts.

^ Billboard, July 17, 1982, p. 40
^ "Electronic Digital Editing for Multi-Track Comes of Age," DB Magazine, February 1980, p. 40
^ "B.B. King: There is Always One More Time," By David McGee, pg 169
^ Billboard - Oct 6, 1973 - Page 14, "Record Track"