Vorticist Studios

And lastly for this week, - “Keep Going” from the ‘Intensives’ EP is out now! This is for sure my favorite of the songs we did last year - suffice to say, its the most aggressively progged out of the tunes so far.

I found these guys through , didn’t expect so much rad prog rock from Birmingham, AL but I’m here for it! I’ve been super impressed with their writing abilities too, I mostly just sat back and tried to make it sound good.

The guys had a section marked for screaming but didn’t have anybody lined up for it, so I volunteered and it ended up making the cut. I haven’t contributed vocals on anything in a couple years and it was fun to see if I could still pull it off, thanks to the boys for letting me throw down!

For the tone heads, we tried a few options and ended up with ‘s Peavey JSX on rhythms - real sleeper of an amp. Alex also handled all the rhythm tracking and most of the leads.

This was also one of the first mixes I did with my 4K bus comp; it’s a sweet piece and I’ve been enjoying dipping my toe back into mixing with hardware.

Check it out!

Production, Mix and Master, Guest Vocals || Vorticist Studios – John Douglass

Guitar Engineer, Guest Solo || Second Sight Sound –

Next up on the new releases, dropped a song we did last year featuring called ‘4 Dimensional Regret’. Drums were recorded at my place, .james813 and the band handled the rest of the production (even reamps) and then I went to mix town on it.

I really dig how and Cheney’s layers play off each other towards the end - the guys did a great job leaving enough space instrumentally to mix the vocals a bit more like radio rock 🤘

Snare was my Copper 5x14” and toms were my Yamahas - such a killer combo, ’s tribal tom bits came out pretty thunderous on this one!

New single is out today! A couple shots from drum recording at

was engineering the guitar and bass back at home base while and I pounded through the drum recording in the day and vocals with in the evening.

We did it in record time and I think the result sounds fantastic, we pulled some great raw tones along the way!

Thank you to all the bands that worked with me in 2024 for your confidence and patience!

















Cheers to Muso.ai for keeping tabs (and the mid-winter ego bump)

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