Studio Diary

After a good week of mixing, it was time to get some more vocals tracked. I had 4/5 songs ready for vocals, so I headed down to the studio nice… Read more: Vocals: pt 2

Usually, we would record all the music, then record all the vocals, then begin mixing. When’s there’s 20-30 tracks to record, it’s a lot to do. This time, to break… Read more: Vocals and Mixing pt 1.

We had already recorded some bits of vocals to a few of the older ideas some time ago, however there’s still around 35 tracks that need vocals recorded! Last week… Read more: Vocals – March 2021

We began tracking guitars back in December and have been working our way through the full list of 42 tracks. I have now recorded guitars to every track, leaving 14… Read more: 42 songs – Guitars mostly done!

STREAM: https://ditto.fm/cyclops-highlow VINYL/CD/DL: https://wearehighlow.bandcamp.com/album/cyclops VINYL/CD: http://instereorecords.co.uk/bands/highlow HIGH/LOW take us behind the scenes of recording 36 tracks in Lockdown, in the making their 4th album CYCLOPS. Initially planned for release pre-lockdown… Read more: The making of CYCLOPS

At the end of last month we took some time off to record the Acoustic Cyclops sessions, so this week it was time to catch up and track some more… Read more: Back to recording Guitars!

Today’s track has a sort of lofi-Lemonheads feel to it, so I wanted to try a few things with the guitar sounds. The solo was recorded thorough a tiny practice… Read more: Guitars: Day 8

It feels like we’ve been in lockdown forever. It’s been almost a year since anything has been normal. Luckily, we have plenty of songs to record to keep us busy!… Read more: Guitars : 6 & 7

Steve sent over the tracks that he had been working on. He had already slammed down some guitars to 4 of them and they sounded huge! He sent me the… Read more: Bass Fuzz : Day 1

Time to get lost in fuzz once more. The coffee is brewing as I listen to the demo version a couple of times to get my head in the zone.… Read more: Guitars : Day 5

Today’s track is a lo-fi acoustic kinda chilled thing, that has been in my collection of instrumental demos for a while, until recently when I wrote the vocals and it… Read more: Guitars : Day 4

It’s freezing today. I couldn’t sleep last night, my head was full of ideas for today, so I over slept this morning. One large coffee later, and I’m set up… Read more: Guitars : Day 3

Yesterday went so smoothly, hopefully today will be the same. Today’s song has the working title ‘Eggs are Normal’, and is a proper fast paced beast. I quickly laid down… Read more: Guitars : Day 2

We only released Cyclops 01st Jan, but we’re already tracking guitars to album no.5 I got an nice early morning start, and began setting up and getting the sounds all… Read more: Recording Guitars: Part 1

All of a sudden I had another 18 demos recorded. I sent them out to Lee and Sam, and they loved them. We booked the studio once lockdown lifted start… Read more: Drums – Session 2

While everything in the world is going mental, and we’ve barely seen each other this year, we still managed to squeeze in a quick drum recording session. Sam was given… Read more: Drum tracking – Session 1

Behind the scenes and studio footage of HIGH/LOW recording their 3rd full length album ‘Down the Wave’.

After a month away from recording and playing it was nice to get in the studio and get creative. We’re getting close to the finish line. We have 4 tracks… Read more: Guitar City – 6th June.

We spent most of May listening through all the recorded tracks so far, (Almost 30 songs!) we made some notes and then mixed half the songs. At the end of… Read more: Studio update – 5 June.

For the past few weeks we’ve been working hard to make up for the few set backs we’ve had, but now we are flying through the list of 50 odd… Read more: Studio Update