One Hundred and Sixty Six 2 Difficult Choices

From New York, the capital of the world, to Washington, the capital of the United States, from Boston, which has a unique economic and cultural location, to Miami, which is a resort center for the elderly, the east coast of the entire North American continent is lined with many distinctive and well-known cities, and Philadelphia is interspersed in the middle. It appears to be quite inferior.

Once upon a time, this city was world-famous because of the miracle of "Rocky"; once upon a time, this city attracted countless attention because of the rise of the Philadelphia 76ers... However, with the passage of time, the ancient and vicissitudes of Philadelphia are gradually being annihilated in the wind and rain In the past, the glory was gone forever.

Few people know that outside of the Philadelphia Orchestra, this city is still a city of music, with golden notes still flowing in its blood.

Rhythm and blues and soul music have always been the pride of Philadelphia. Countless new generations of musicians have come out of the city's cultural atmosphere, including the famous John-Legend; It is the most active circle on the entire East Coast. Even if it has not entered the mainstream, countless rock lovers come here to enjoy the performances of underground bands every year.

It's hard to imagine that the city known as the oldest in the United States has gone very far on the road of music.

Electronic dance music on Fourth Street in Philadelphia has formed a new industry, with related electronic music parties every week, and gave birth to a new electronic music style with drums and bass as the main sound; and as one of the birthplaces of hardcore rap, Even though New York stole the limelight, it is still the most important cradle of rap on the East Coast. A new generation of rappers are born every year, and they continue to grab the attention of the mainstream market.

Apparently, this is a city full of music.

But it is also obvious that the musicians in Philadelphia always have their own character and pride, refuse to integrate into the mainstream world, just stubbornly and proudly stick to their own hot spot, the independent musicians who are active in the underground music world have achieved this. unique to the city.

Perhaps, apart from John Legend who once studied at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the most famous musician in Philadelphia and the most familiar to the mainstream market should be the two boys and two men (Boyz-II) who swept the United States in the 1990s. -Men), and movie box-office superstar Will-Smith -- a top-notch actor who's also a very good rapper.

But that's all. After entering the new century, Philadelphia has gradually moved away from the mainstream market music circle, and instead has become more and more individual.

It is precisely because of this that Philadelphia still has a strong music atmosphere, but it does not feel the strong commercial atmosphere of Los Angeles or New York for the time being, nor the strong music style of New Orleans or Nashville. Here, musicians can still feel free. Make the music you like, the music that represents your own style.

Recording studios, big and small, are scattered all over the city,

Not only professional, but also free and most importantly affordable.

As Jeremiah said, Philly is really a good fit for Kings for a Day, even more so than New York.

Perhaps, this is the hint of fate, the opportunity that belongs to the band has come, the band should give it a go, stop looking forward and backward, enter the recording studio to complete the recording of the song, and then look forward to further progress.

However, the band is indeed struggling financially right now.

Although the band appeared as a warm-up guest, Bruno not only reimbursed the hotel expenses and travel expenses, but also had an additional appearance fee, which was another additional income; but the level of the band is not high, and the appearance fee is also impossible. Too high, especially compared to a recording studio.

Everything happened so fast that the band didn't think about the appearance fee at all-of course, they were completely willing to appear for free as long as they could win the performance, so Ronan never discussed the appearance fee with John, but Ke When Reeve and Julio were chatting, they mentioned that, if nothing else, the band's appearance fee should be around $3,000 to $5,000, which is within this range.

Whether it is the members of the One Day Kings Band or Ronan, they have re-entered the recording studio after a long absence, and their skills have become unfamiliar, so it is difficult to grasp the time for renting the recording studio.

How much time does it take, a day? two days? ten hours? Or a hundred hours? Everything is an unknown, and they can't be sure how much money will be spent to successfully complete the recording.

Then, the appearance fee will become more and more a drop in the bucket.

In fact, for independent bands, there is another most economical way, which is to prepare their own recording studio——

After entering the millennium, with the strong rise of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, the gradual improvement and maturity of online digital music sales networks such as iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, etc., and a series of electronic recording devices headed by Apple Computer In addition, all-round progress, even smart phones can complete music recording.

As a result, more and more grassroots singers and independent singers began to surface one after another. They can find their place on the Internet platform. This is also an inevitable development trend of national entertainment, which can be called the height of music talent shows. A new stage after maturity.

For independent musicians, there is no problem without advanced professional recording equipment, and modern technology has become the first solution to all problems.

They only need to find an independent space such as a garage or warehouse, use egg trays for holding eggs as "sound insulation equipment", and paste them all over the corners of the space to create a space that isolates noise and minimize the impact of noise Lower down to the minimum, and you're done recording.

But the recording of the band was more troublesome.

For a solo singer, it is often enough to use a computer to complete the arrangement - all the instruments are in the computer, and the arrangement and accompaniment can be completed directly with the computer, but the band still needs to perform live to complete the recording, and also requires instruments and music. The instruments are recorded separately to avoid noise and avoid the layering of the band's performance from being drowned out.

However, in such a simple and rough recording space, the recording of musical instrument performances is undoubtedly very, very difficult. It may require countless times of repeated recording, and it is not uncommon to spend weeks or even months.

However, the difficulty is difficult, it can still be overcome, it is not difficult.

It's just that the One Day Kings' situation is even more special now. They are on tour, and they must keenly seize the opportunity of this tour to further open up the situation. They don't have time to slowly find a garage in Philadelphia or Boston, and then slowly To complete the recording quickly, they need to race against time.

time is money……

Buzz buzz!

Buzz buzz!

At this moment, the mobile phone on the bedside table began to vibrate, the sound was not loud, but Ollie was still awakened, and suddenly sat up straight like a zombie, startling Ronan, and then After reacting, while comforting "you continue to sleep and continue to sleep", he connected the phone:

"Good morning, this is Ronan."