If i write Serial.println in the if statements nothing is being read.
Wrong. The data is still being read from the pots. The data may not be being printed because your if statement(s) does/do not evaluate to true.
If i write them outside the if statements its just 0-1023 / 8 (0-127)
Quit waving your hands and show the code with the Serial.print() statements, and (some of) the output.
For high 1 its being read 0 - 127
This makes no sense.