Chance engineering a session at Mahogany Studios

Behind the Studio

Meet MixByChance — the engineer behind every record.

Trained on API, SSL, and Neve. Sharpened in Times Square. Credited on records by The Kid Laroi, Don Toliver, Pop Smoke, Trippie Redd, Lil Tecca and more.

The Engineer

From analog consoles in Times Square to the records on your playlist.

Chance is an audio, recording, mixing and mastering engineer with a rare resume — the kind of analog-first foundation almost nobody under 40 actually has, paired with a working knowledge of every modern hip-hop and pop trick that lives inside a session today.

Tempe, AZ

Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences

Formal training in the craft — signal flow, acoustics, and the discipline behind every great record.

New York City

Penthouse Studios · Times Square

Head engineer at one of NYC's flagship rooms. Tracking bands through API, SSL and Neve — learning the analog language that still shapes every mix today.

Atlanta · NYC · LA

Shaping NYC Drill & Modern Hip-Hop

Engineered and mixed records with the architects of NYC Drill and the bright, glossy LA pop-rap sound — bringing analog warmth into a digital era.

Albuquerque, NM

Mahogany Studios

A reference-grade room built to deliver that same major-label sound to artists who'd rather not fly to LA to make their record.

Chance has recorded and mixed some of the most defining voices of the last decade — The Kid Laroi, Don Toliver, Pop Smoke, Lil Tecca, Lil Tjay, Sheck Wes, PnB Rock, King Von, Sheff G, NoCap, Trippie Redd, Scorey, Babyface Ray, Dave East, Toosii, and many more.

He helped shape the sound of NYC Drill and modern Hip-Hop, and the glossy, bright vocal aesthetic that defines today's Los Angeles pop-rap. Two opposite worlds — one engineer who speaks both languages fluently.

He started really focusing on Hip-Hop engineering after attending the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, Arizona. From there he moved to New York and learned the trade the old-fashioned way — micing up bands, tracking through API, SSL and Neve consoles, surrounded by endless racks of outboard gear — before becoming head engineer at Penthouse Studios in Times Square, the biggest room in the city.

Then came the pivot. He took everything the analog world had taught him and brought it into the modern hip-hop game — fusing the depth, weight and character of vintage hardware with the precision and immediacy of the in-the-box workflow that today's artists actually record on.

Chance has lived and worked in New York City, Atlanta, and still records and mixes records every day in Los Angeles. The edge he brings — engineering, mixing, mastering, and the instinct for what a record actually needs — is what makes Mahogany Studios feel less like a local room and more like a major-label session.

In the Room