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There was never a dull moment in the Jones home. My dad had a great sense of humour. He made his name taking standard songs of the day and making them funny with sound effects and different voices.

For most of my career, I thought watching my mother sing had more of an effect on my engineering and how I relate to vocalists. It wasn’t until the last 10 years I started to understand my father’s influence on me through how he orchestrated the music with all the sound effects written into the sequences like a radio show.

In my

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