Chance has Recorded and Mixed many artists such as 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. Chance has helped create and develop the sound of NYC Drill and Hip Hop and the shiny Los Angeles style bright vocals.
Chance is an audio, recording, mixing, and mastering engineer who is certified in Tier 4 Pro Tools, UAD Plug-Ins, Waves Plug-ins, Autotune Antares, Melodyne, etc. He started really focusing on Hip-Hop engineering after attending an audio engineering school called The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Tempe, AZ, He then moved to NYC where he started engineering by micing up and recording bands through API, SSL, and Neve consoles, with endless rack equipment, to then head engineering for the biggest studio in New York, Penthouse Studios in Times Square. Then wanted to take everything he knew from the analog world and wanted to change the hip hop game mixing the two together. Chance has recorded/mixed some of the top hip hop and pop artists in the industry, and mixing his own secret niches and tricks learned from the analog world into his mixing process in todays age. Chance has lived and worked in New York City, Atlanta, and still lives and works in Los Angeles where he records and mixes records every day. Chance has really given the edge we needed when it comes to engineering, mixing, mastering, and just all around creating a record with the artist.
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Credits
Interview with Chance Hubbard (MixByChance)
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: Mixing and Recording Lil Tjays album dropping in 2021, I recorded and mixed a few of the songs on it.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Mixing a current Album
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Analog, because the passing of voltage thru a single is much more thick and beautiful.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: That they will not leave unsatisfied.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: The balance of technical and creative boundaries when it comes to making a hit record.
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: If they prefer me to mix with beat stems or a 2 track, ALWAYS with stems.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That engineering is 'easy'.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: Which direction they are wanting ti go with the track, if they have any reference tracks to listen to, if they are experiencing high quality control in their previous mixes.
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: Trust in me, I have what you're looking for if your looking for vocal production and mixing within the Hip Hop and Rnb Realm, I bring a whole new sound to the game.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Maschine Studio, Aturia 49 Key Keyboard, 8-87, 1073 BAE Pre Amp, CL1B Compressor
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: Producing and Engineering has been my career path for about 5 years now.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Unique and Bright, but also developing a new sound of hip hop.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Jay Z, because I think we could really make something special.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: Gain Staging is the key to a good song.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Hip Hop and Rnb
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Vocal Mixing and Production
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: Life. I use all elements of the song I possibly can to make it as unique and as powerful to the listener as possible.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: Pre- Production consisting of getting the session ready and routed to mix for my workflow, then proceeding to vocal timing edits, and Melodyne, and dynamic work, then mixing the beat around the vocals, then proceeding to mastering for the final dynamic processing.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: All Waves Plug-ins, All UAD Plug-ins, Antares Autotune Pro, Melodyne, Sound Toys Plug-Ins. Neumann TLM-103, 1073 Pre Amp, CL1B Tube Tech Compressor, Apollo x6 Interface.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Alex Tumay, Jaysen Joshua,MixByAli, etc
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: I am extremely well rounded in multitrack band recordings and mixing. But over the last year I have developed myself into a vocal producer/engineer in mostly Hip Hop and RnB
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $300 per song
- Mastering EngineerAverage price - $100 per song
- ProducerAverage price - $200 per song
- Beat MakerAverage price - $500 per song
- Recording StudioAverage price - $600 per day
When hired, turnaround time is no longer than a week from date paid. Once paid, you will be allowed 5 revisions to your project, and I am more than happy to make a compromise need be!
- Don Toliver
- The Kid LAROI
- Pop Smoke
- TLM-103
- U-87
- Neve 1073
- CL1B
- LA-2A
- Apollo X6
For projects, contact me. We can discuss pricing on multiple songs!
