Paula Jones is an Australian

audio engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

who has worked with

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Michael Hutchence Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Hutchence co-founded the rock band INXS, which sold over 75 million records worldwide and was inducted into th ...

, and

Marcella Detroit Marcella Levy (born June 21, 1952), known professionally as Marcy Levy and (later in her career) Marcella Detroit, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She co-wrote the 1977 Eric Clapton hit "Lay Down Sally" and released her debut al ...

. She was nominated for the Australian Engineer Of The Year ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) for her work engineering/mixing the Max Q album with

. She engineered "

Can You Feel The Love Tonight "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" is a song from Disney's 1994 animated film ''The Lion King'' composed by English musician Elton John with lyrics by Tim Rice. At the 67th Academy Awards in March 1995 it won the Academy Award for Best Original So ...

" which went on to win an

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Early life

Jones grew up in Sydney. She became interested in learning sound when she was 15 and dating a guitarist in a local cover band. She started asking questions to the engineers at every gig.

Professional career

Jones started her career at Sydney's Rhinoceros Recording Studios where she worked with producers and artists including Chris Thomas, David Nicholas and

INXS INXS (a word play, phonetic play on "in excess") were an Australian Rock music, rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. The band's founding members were bassist Garry Gary Beers, main composer and keyboar ...

. She was asked to go to London to assist on a mix

Air Studios Associated Independent Recording (AIR) is an independent recording company founded in London in 1965 by record producer Sir George Martin and his business partner John Burgess, after their departure from Parlophone. The studio complex was founded ...

when she was 22. In London, she continued working with Chris Thomas engineering for artists such as

and with producers Dave Stewart

Eurythmics Eurythmics were a British pop duo consisting of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. They were both previously in The Tourists, a band which broke up in 1980. The duo released their first studio album, '' In the Garden'', in 1981 to little succ ...

) and Martin Chambers (

The Pretenders Pretenders are an English–American rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Fa ...

). She has worked out of world class studios including AIR Lyndhurst (George Martin) Olympic, The Townhouse and SARM West (Trevor Horn). The success of the Lion King soundtrack prompted her to move to LA. While living in LA she partnered with Tony Brock to remix Korn and 311, Rick Rubin for a Puff Daddy remix and she produced and co wrote with Marcella Detroit (Shakespeare's Sister, Eric Clapton). Paula programmed beats and engineered projects for song writers Rick Nowels (Stevie Nicks, Dido) and Billy Steinberg (I'll Stand By You, Like A Virgin). She has also worked with

Charlie Clouser Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963) is an American keyboardist, composer, record producer, and remixer. He worked with Trent Reznor for Nine Inch Nails from 1994 to 2000, and is a composer for film and television; among his credits are t ...

on projects with

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and others. Credits include - *

- Circle Of Life - Engineer *In The Dark - indie horror film score composition *Tyler Conti - Debut album - Engineer

Personal life

She has one child and resides in Australia.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Paula Peej Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Women audio engineers Australian record producers Australian women record producers