. Those feats are even more impressive as an Asian American woman in a field where a recentof 500 songs found that just 2.6 percent of the producers were women, and 1.6 percent were women of color.
After getting into the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Shinn switched from Logic to ProTools, and chose production and engineering as her major despite facing a double standard. “I’m blonde and I’m young — and I look young. Everywhere I’d go, people would think I’m a dumb blonde,” she says. “Even in college, I had female professors ask me to switch out of their class because it ‘looked like I wasn’t getting it.
She moved to L.A. to follow her dreams at 20, even though her mother urged her to try real estate instead. She began working at a studio, seven days a week, without pay. “I’d be there until 7 p.m.” she says. “That’s when I’d go to my shift as a waitress at a strip club off of Sunset. I’d work there until 4 a.m. so I could make, like, $250, four nights a week. Then I’d be back at the studio at 11 a.m. — cleaning toilets, tuning vocals, and recording.
Shinn says she’s lost out on jobs because of her gender, and she’s been treated noticeably differently than her male peers. “People will be like, ‘Where the fuck is my coffee?’ ” she says. There have been worse mistreatments that she’d rather not detail; most of the time, she finesses her way through these situations, and she’s only walked out on a gig once before.
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