Alex Watts

Waking up slowly today.

Here’s most of the vocal chain for a song I’m currently mixing for using some of my favourite plugins 👌🏻

Studer A800>Logic Pro De-esser>Neve 1073> F6 EQ>LA-2A>1176
with the Galaxy Echo on a send.

The different 1176 emulations are fast becoming my favourite compressors😍

I’m also loving mixing on my SRH840As that I recently bought to replace my previous pair of SRH840s which lasted about 11 years of mixing countless gigs, tracking and mixing music in the studio and at home and all the listening I did otherwise, so I’m hoping this pair works just as hard!:)

This place is cool:)

Nice to see this robin returning to the garden repeatedly collecting nest material and food:)

Spring is here!:)

I’m still working my way through The Artist’s Way and it’s incredible way to not only unleash restricted creativity, but also to understand myself better. I’m not quite keeping up with my weekly tasks (the 12 week course may turn in 36 at this rate!) but I don’t see that as a bad thing!

I’m learning a lot about myself and the Morning Pages routine has been extremely beneficial as a way of reflecting, problem solving and coming up with new ideas.

I’m probably 4 or 5 weeks in and highly recommend.

Enjoyed a peaceful walk around Ostler’s Plantation earlier. We could hear some birds but didn’t see much wildlife, a pair of buzzard circled above us at one point but it was nice to take some time to photograph some still life.

Starting my year strong with a mix for a Portuguese artist 👌🏻

Get in touch for mix work & music production:)

Happy New Year all! All the best for 2024!

It’s been a year filled with gigs and music, work & fun and I’m looking forward to another year of it all and plenty of new adventures.

Thanks to everybody and everything that’s made this year great!

Don’t know how I ended up with such a muted colour when posting this previously but here is last week’s kingy but a slightly more zingy.

Very lucky to have seen this kingfisher yesterday within the 10mins or so that I had at nature reserve. On arrival made a comment that ‘they’re usually here’ and within a few seconds two flew past us along the river!

This shot was taken on our way back to the car a few minutes later and though not expecting to see one again so soon, it posed for us for a few more seconds.

Ace time at with my dad earlier this week. So cool to have an insight into their journey as a band and the world around them. Such a coincidence to have timed our visit with the release of Now & Then - I love the new song and the story behind it!

Jacket - Don’t Eat Crystal

I tracked my guitar parts at home with my Strat straight into as DI signal to allow me some flexibility to shape my tone later.
and I re-amped the parts using an Orchid Amp Interface, straight into my Hot Rod Deluxe utilizing the bpm-synced FX from Logic Pro.

My live tone is crafted by my pedals:
The Tube Screamer, and Flashback Delay and Ensemble King chorus for clean tones, with a hefty dose of DS-1 for the choruses.

Back from a much-needed break in with

London 4.4.23

Another angle on a beautiful jay that I saw at

I’ve seen this kestrel hunting around the lakes back home on numerous occasions, I took this photograph on Christmas morning!:)

This young jay posed for me for a little while back in June, looking so confident and majestic with its bright wing feathers:)

Such a great evening seeing perform at
Amazing performance by all and such inspiring musicianship and songwriting!Need I mention the guitar skills and tone, too!?👌🏻
Support by was awesome, too, beautiful vocals, songs and harmonies with some wonderful pedal steel👌🏻

A Kingy looking mystical.

I’ve had a nice week off seeing friends and family:) and I even mixed a gig and recorded some tracks!:)

Great time performing with and this evening at

Had a lovely time this evening writing saxophone parts with my sister for my jazz track Red Flags which will feature in