
PANCHO ARENAS
Music Producer - Mixing & Mastering Engineer

Music Producer
Mixing and Mastering Engineer
That's how I got here
I was only three or four years old when I first heard my mother sing Violeta Parra on her guitar. I couldn’t comprehend how a simple movement of fingers could produce something so beautiful, but I knew right then that my life would be bound to music. Years later, that instinct turned into a relentless drive for experimentation—tearing apart every piece of audio gear I could get my hands on to explore its inner workings and build my own sonic universes.
Today, decades of exploration have culminated in a career dedicated to Music Production, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering, specializing in the most demanding avenues of South American Rock, Pop, and Metal.
My approach combines artistic intuition with top-tier technical precision. It’s a formula reflected in records awarded five PULSAR Awards—the Chilean equivalent of the Grammy Awards: The Cycle (Recrucide, 2018), Kollong (Mawiza, 2020), This Darkness Feels Alive (Overtoun, 2022), Cortacalles (Tenemos Explosivos, 2023), and Quadragenta at Finem Mundi (Engrupid Pipol, 2026).
I work with record labels and artists who don't look to sound great by accident, but by vision.

Testimonials
What is the goal?
When focus serves art and music is written from raw emotion, I believe it reaches true transcendence. My goal as a producer is to push your capabilities to the limit—demanding rigor and absolute perfection in both performance and delivery to capture the best possible take. If it doesn't give us goosebumps while tracking, we record it again.
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Production & Recording
Mix
Mastering
This is where we prepare to enter the studio; every detail matters, from the temperature of the recording room to the last note played on the guitar. In my view of music, the details make all the difference.
Here the recording comes to life and becomes consistent; every creative aspect that was imagined in the production and/or recording process is polished here, where I search tirelessly until I find it.
If we were to view this as a wooden sculpture, here we simply polish gently and take care of every final detail, so that a unique piece of art is delivered to the market.
FEATURED PRODUCTIONS

Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without music, life would be a mistake"


























