The Midnight

In The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim McEwan of The Midnight discusses and shows use how he created a midi track using simulated guitar plugins. It appears that he is using Soleman Tones' ODIN II guitar vst for MIDI Keyboards/synths alongside a Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 5 preset inspired by the 1980s rock group Van Halen called Van 51 Scooped/Straightforward Metal.

In the Sonic Academy tutorial "How To Make Synthwave with The Midnight," The Midnight demonstrates the use of Sonic Academy Kick 2 while creating the track "The Comeback Kid."

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim talks about how he created an arpeggio using u-he's Repro vst plugin on Neon Medusa. He also talks about he he used a chorus effect from the Lyrebird option in Repro for the arpeggio as well. He also uses Valhalla DSP's überMod on the same arpeggio track to make it sound more vibrant and spread it out.

He uses it during this tutorial.

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim McEwan of The Midnight talks about how he uses Wavesfactory's TrackSpacer plugin to duck out certain sounds in his mixes like drums for example even though the plugin's primary use is for side-chaining. He uses this plugin on a synth bass he calls on the track ''BASS ROLLING'' from u-he's DIVA synth-vst that was made for the choruses of Neon Medusa that he sends to a bus in his Apple's Logic Pro X project for the song to one of the main synth bass sounds he created from using Xfer Records' Serum.

Uses this throughout the course of this video series.

Tim uses it throughout the course of this series.

Tim uses it throughout the course of this series.

Tim uses it throughout the course of this series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Almost completely in the box production using plugins that mimick vintage synths, compressors etc

Here is a recording of a stream of Tim working 26/01/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWN_tYAa5b0

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Stream titled ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' where Tim McEwan of The Midnight explains how he uses Valhalla DSP's überMod Multi Effects Plugin to make the intro for Neon Medusa sound stereo, and how he will use it from time to time to give something width, and color as well in the music.

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim McEwan of The Midnight talks about how he is using Goodhertz' Megaverb plugin on Tyler Lyle's Vocals for Neon Medusa to give it more width and make his vocals fit more into the mix of the song.

Tim uses it throughout the course of this series.

Tim uses it throughout the course of this series.

Tim uses it throughout the course of this series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

Tim uses this throughout the series.

In this image, you can see Tim McEwan using a pre-set called HS Animated Bells inside of U-He's Zebra2 plugin on The Midnight's Twitch Live Stream called ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' from March 3rd, 2021. Tim uses the HS Animated Bells preset as shown at the 9:37 mark of the stream discussing in detail how he manipulated the preset a little and put an arpeggio on it for the intro of Neon Medusa.

In The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim can be seen at the 15:55 mark into the stream pulling up a preset he purchased for Xfer Record's Serum VST from a preset pack that appears to be called TonePusher - Stranger Sounds - Bass - Fat Mini for one of the first intro synth bass sounds he used for Neon Medusa. He jokes about the synthwave artist called PowerGlove wondering if it was a preset from him he was using (which he wasn't) as somehow he or someone else titled the track Bass - PowerGlove Bass.

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim McEwan of The Midnight discusses how he uses Dada Life's Endless Smile plugin on his keys bus in Logic Pro X as a drop before the chorus starts for Neon Medusa. As shown in the stream, Dada Life's Endless Smile has various presets but in Tim's case is adding reverb to the arp track to give it as he says that kind of ''Hype'' feel right before the chorus starts.

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim McEwan of The Midnight shows how he is using a preset in Native Instrument's Guitar Rig 5 called Trash Solo + / Big Monster on a dry mono guitar solo track guitarist Maddie Rice sent to him for Neon Medusa to give it more of a guitar solo vibe.

From The Midnight's March 3rd, 2021 Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' Tim McEwan of The Midnight talks about how he uses Izotope's RX 7 De-Clip plugin to remove the hotness and any clips in Tyler Lyle's voice from the mono track.

As seen here from The Midnight's Twitch.tv Stream ''Tim is breaking down Neon Medusa'' from March 3rd, 2021, Tim uses Cableguys' PanCake2 plugin to pan some hi hats in Neon Medusa.