'Change Your Heart or Die' - Track Production Breakdown 

I rewatch this every so often because it’s got some great nuggets in it. And it always breaks my heart when Tim says at the beginning that more track breakdowns will come in the following weeks, but then they never came 😢

Yes Tim, you are alive! Oh and this was a wealth of knowledge that we saved for our future podcast episode on this song. Thanks for sharing!

Oh my god please do make more of these😭I so eargly seeking for this kind of walkthrough. You guys(Tim, and Tyler both of you) are the person that impacted me the most...so I really wish to get closer to you.

I put all your new singles on my "Summer Songs" playlist and they make driving at sunset, with all the windows down, arm hanging out the window, magical.

I absolutely love your music! Tyler’s voice is amazing and Tim you are so talented! You guys have meant more to me than you will ever know. Your music has helped me through a very tough time and I’m so grateful. Thank you so much! I have all your albums and listen to them all the time! Sadly I missed your concert this year but will look forward to you guys coming back to Scotland!

Never did I expect you guys to make a vid showing what’s “under the hood, totally geeking out right now. This made my day!

That you guys crammed this many sounds into this song, and that in the end result, everything sits with air around it, is a genuine credit to your production, as well as your mix and mastering engineers.

The Midnight: The most underrated band on Earth...

16:15 When I first heard Neon Medusa I thought there was no way it was a live musician - and then I saw Royce play it live and realized I was wrong. He's such a great addition to already such tremendous musicianship!

Tim your production is insane! In a league of its own. I’m so glad you use Logic, it makes it so easy to see your process and follow along. Sincerely, an extreme appreciator of your music from a production standpoint

I got so scared when this got deleted off of Twitch. Thanks for re-uploading! This is extremely helpful for figuring out the magic you do with the vocals!

This is so cool! Please do more of these. It's really interesting to see the "behind the scenes" of songs we love!

Bro.... You have no idea the level of smile that came on my face after seeing a notification for this video.😃😄 Awaiting for the whole album.

As an amateur musician/producer, I love these Tim! Absolutely invaluable. Please keep doing them as much as you reasonably have time for! Also as a long-time fan, the new album is amazing so far and don't let anyone else tell you guys otherwise! Rock on.

Cant express how much I love your style of music. Brings back so many memories and feelings from back in the day. Please keep it up forever!

He said, "TIGHT!" And I felt it in my soul. This shit is indeed tight.

This song has always reminded me of selections from Harry Manfredini's score for Slaughter High. I love that sound!

Just found this walkthrough. Super interesting to following your process like this. Especially for someone like me who records and produces music in Logic on a daily basis. Thanks!

Tim it was a true privilege meeting you outside the Glasgow gig, and I hope you managed to get your coffee!! 😅👍 Thanks for this video 🙂 would be really nice to see more breakdown videos like this ❤️🎹🎷🎶🙂

Would love to see the break down of Clean Eyes. You may have heard me screaming "Clean Eyes" over and over again at you in Philly last month, haha!

I've seen no other band who generously shares the ton of work behind that goes in the production process of a track. This again shows us how much this band loves and believes in their art and creativity. Taking time to trace back every single step right from the beginning is phenomenal. I don't think it'll be wrong to say that this band not only entertains people but also educate in their own way which makes them stand out from the crowd 💜💙

This is awsome. Thank you, Tim! Your stuff is always both, extremely well produced creatively and technically, as well as perfectly mixed. I can't believe that one single person combines all these skills. I'm making electronic music since 30 years and I'm still fighting with mixing (volumes, frequencies, stereo image) up to this day. Maximum respect to you and Tyler for creating the most emotionally captivating music on the planet 🙏.

This song is such a banger. I discovered you guys recently and fell in love

So cool to see it all broken down. Can't believe how many tracks you use! Really love you music

That reference to Dakota's 'Angry Men' is absolutely fucking amazing.

Ah, a nice follow up on SonicAcademy's Comeback Kid! Thanks Tim.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this incredible breakdown!!!

Heard your "pre" mix and the final mix at the same time. The small, subtle differences are very interesting. Once again a great song.

Your drums hit very hard especially the kick in your recent songs

I love how your mix has more cymbals and hihats! The final CYHOD mix drowned out some of that cymbal top end. Still sounds amazing, but this takes the cake!

Tim, thanks for putting this on RU-vid, many of us rarely have a chance to catch you live!

Been here since days of thunder and can’t wait for more!

i know its been a year, but would love to see more track breakdowns! i bought your course on Sonic Academy and its been invaluable. would love to see one for Neon Medusa, America 2, Explorers, Los Angeles, Land Locked Heart. definitely Shadows! thanks so much for sharing so much of your knowledge and experience. you’re a great teacher. many times people can be great musicians and terrible teachers. but i love the way you break these tracks down. i wish more artists would do that! and i selfishly would love as much of that as possible lol

I listen to your songs everyday while I’m at work and it always makes the day feel better the second days of thunder starts. I hope you do more of these behind the scenes videos showing how you create your tracks.. My son loves your music too and he played your track JASON to his music class..there all fans now lol

I'm very in love with your music and i'll always be a big and loyal fan! Never stop making music, and thanks for sharing this

Tim, what is the sound at 56:04? You use this patch/sound used in many of your newer tracks. It's a unique sound and really adds to the atmosphere of your tracks.

I LOVE that you went thru it all like this! I'm a big fan of this track! I would love if you went thru in even more detail! ...and I LOVE seeing the other enhancements you use to punctuate things (like the thunder clap, and I think I saw "jet engine" in there somewhere? I would've loved to see how each of those fits in the mix too! I personally LOVE those little hidden details!).

so cool you do these things

Whoa. Gonna take me a while to fully watch and digest this video but thank you for posting it, I've never edited more than about 4 tracks together for silly joke mp3's for friends but I know this is gonna be fascinating.

ROCKMAN! dude i loved this breakdown, thank you so much for sharing - love the geekyness and nerdiness of all of this. Its why we love your music, because its made with so much passion and detail

This is one of the best songs made in the last few years. The rush it makes you feel is surreal!

❤ from Burundi 🇧🇮

Thanx a lot!! Would be great to discover more of your producing/mixing tips

Heartbeat City is not only the best Cars record, but one of the best records of the 80s in my opinion. Love that Mutt Lange snare.

This is simply wonderful, thank you so much! I wish you could do something like this for your all time classics like Gloria or The Comeback Kid :)

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I love when artists do that kind of breakdowns. I my mind i can pretend it's me who explains the music to my fans 😎🙈

Please do more of these!!!! You're awesome bro!

I love how he sounds so perfectly 50% brit and 50% American

Great job guys. Amazing music. Looking forward for more ♥️

I absolutely didn´t expect this! Amazing guys and very lovely to hear Tim 😎👌

Aaaaah, the beautiful puzzle of mixing a track 💕

You guys are doing a fantastic job. Thanks for sharing your experience, it's interesting. Great music, I want to be like you in this 😊

Awesome stuff guys, always fun to see how your favorite tracks were made

Thank You for this video! We need Brooklyn. Friday. Love. to be next single released.

Tim, wanted to add that your live drum work on this song just adds an electricity that the recording can't match. But that's why concerts are so thrilling...

Arpeggio... soft G lol Love you guys!

25:45 - that chorus/clean blended tone is beautiful. Is that a pedal? And is it recorded in stereo or doubled up? Absolutely love it

I love your music - I am excited to deep dive with this video. Thank you for the great tunes.

Awesome, thoroughly enjoyed the breakdown of The Comeback Kid on SonicAcademy. Haven't got through this but very much looking forward to it!

Excellent as always. Runaway by Dakota is one of my favourite songs.

dink dink dink

This and deep Blue are on repeat on my Spotify... Needless to say I'm in the top 1% of The Midnight listeners on there lmao

Hear the beautiful music!!

best track on the album

Super video! We need more like this!

Tim is an absolute legend!

Love it! Can't wait to see you guys at the Van Buren!

You live!! And ALIVE!

Thanks for sharing this very informative presentation. Keep up the good work guys. 👍 We love your music ❤

Tim, I just wanted to thank you for using the word "rad". It was rad that you did that.

love those peter griffin fart 80's vibes sounding synths

Thank you. So much.

Hello Tim, great stuff lad! thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us all! Also could you tell me what OSX are you using ?

Legends.

LETS GO I LOVE THESE VIDEOS

I miss these live streams with Tim so much…

This is pure art.

Cannot wait

Everyone here is good people, I guarantee it.

Thanks for doing this video! Can you explain the solo guitar sound a bit more?

I think this one unseated Vampires or River of Darkness as my favorite. I’ve probably listened to it two dozen times or more and I still get chills. I’m not sure if it’s possible to top this one, but I’d love to be proven wrong.

From a technical sound engineering point of view Id just like to point out that IM A HUGE FAN, OMG THE MIDNIGHT RULES!!!!! 🥰🤟🤘

That Casio synth is great

We want a more detailed video of ur music production! Love from Bangladesh!

Awesome!!!!We love You !!!

I need the solo sound for Devil Make a Deal!!!

Holy F#@k... this track has 130+ stems???

Jack of all trades is a master of none, "but oftentimes better than a master of one"

Tim, you need to read an old 80s phone book to us while you're at it. Would also listen to you read the stapled pamphlets that come with prescription medications.

Is the Dakota Song "Angry Men" ?

Holy shit! What a treat!

Alright guys, when is the next remix album getting released. You teased us with the video of the entries last year!

Oh heck ya!

Unas de mis canciones favoritas ☺️☺️

WoW, what an awesome song !!! I like so much !!! 😱

Hey do you remember how you got that vocal reverb sound on Crystalline?

epic. love these videos. teaches me a bunch of tricks with logic i didn't know that i didn't know :-P

Good project walkthrough! Can you explain how you guys did Days of Thunder?

This is such a cool video! Would you ever make the multitracks available for people to practice mixing synth wave?