Chapter 78 Recording

After the summer heat and the white dew are over, the dryness gradually fades away, and Jinan Prefecture will feel a little cool and refreshing in autumn.

When Li Qian rode his bicycle between school, home, and Laodou Records, he gradually no longer had the situation of pedaling all the way and sweating profusely some time ago, and could always face the cool autumn wind, with Some refreshing feeling.

At this time, Li Jinlong, who spent about two weeks traveling between Shuntian Mansion and Jinan Mansion, finally recorded the accompaniment for the previous five songs. For their small record-making team, it was time for the first official studio recording.

Li Qian did not have a professional background in his previous life, and he has entered the music circle as a layman so far in this life. Therefore, let alone the market positioning of the group Wuxingwusu, there is no antiphonal performance at all. Even if there are too many demands, don't expect Li Qian to be able to adjust and guide them in the recording studio.

His recording requirements for Wuxingwusu are very simple: I heard the taste is right, so it's OK!

The recording studio is a special place, and it may not be easy for those who have never been inside to understand this.

In the recording studio, any slight defect, tremor, or instability of your voice will be captured by advanced recording equipment and amplified without limit—ordinary people think their voice is good enough, go in and record a Come out and listen to it yourself, you will feel that your singing is simply horrible!

Although it is necessary to make a record, it must be done in the post-production stage, and the sound must be modified and processed through electronic equipment and computers in the post-production stage. Editing, to cut the good parts of the sound recorded several times together to form a relatively "perfect" version, but there is no doubt that any post-production method is not as good as a version directly from the recording studio. Create emotional unity.

Therefore, even if it is only from the perspective of the completion of the entire song, Li Qian also asked Wu Xingwusu to complete the work as much as possible in the recording studio to minimize the reliance on post-processing.

So, putting aside whether the singing skills are good or not, stable performance is the first.

But the problem is that there are a total of five people in Wuxingwusu.

Laodou Records has the most advanced and largest professional recording studio in Jinan Prefecture. There are a total of four microphone positions in it. In theory, it can accommodate up to eight people to record at the same time.

Therefore, there is no technical problem at all if the Five Elements and My Elements are to be recorded at the same time.

But when the recording started, Li Qian frowned. Since then, his brows have hardly opened.

That's right, Wuxing Wusu does have a very good singing foundation, and after joining Huage Records, they have also undergone quite professional singing and performance training. In fact, they have already released an album. There is no lack of experience in the recording studio. But their biggest problem is that they are not stable enough.

Five people were recording at the same time, and anyone who was a little unstable would immediately drag down the completion of the entire song. But in fact, after a song was sung, even though they had paid attention to it, it was never the only one who had a problem.

Of course, the biggest problem was Xie Bing.

Among the five girls of Wuxingwusu, Xie Bing's voice is not bad, and her singing skills are also good, but her voice is close to Tiannuo. This kind of voice, when singing alone, especially without accompaniment Singing a cappella will be very nice. But the problem is that it is precisely because of the sweetness of the sound quality that even if it is not a big problem for others, it will become a big flaw for her - don't care if you admit it or not, Li Qian has experienced it before. In that time and space, since the 1960s and 1970s, until the new century, fifteen years have passed. Among the few people with the best singing skills in the entire Chinese music scene, the name "Teresa Teng" must be indispensable.

Moreover, Xie Bing seemed a little afraid to enter the recording studio?

In short, every time someone makes a mistake, there will definitely be her!

The song has been practiced very well, and Li Qian's requirements have been told to them in the previous guidance, and they have already understood. Therefore, the current recording in the studio is only about the stability of a few girls. .

So, again, again, and again.

From the perspective of protecting their voices, even if each of them does not sing all the time, there are a lot of passages that can be rested, but each recording is only two hours at most, and then they have to rest for an hour.

So, if you record all day, you add up to six to eight hours.

He didn't even complete the song "Happy Baby" with the simplest requirements.

When the day's recording was over, the five girls felt a little anxious. Even Wang Jingxue, who had the most stable voice and the best singing skills, made countless mistakes, not to mention Xie Bing, who was most prone to mistakes.

Every time there was a break in the middle of the recording, the five girls apologized in a hurry as soon as they came out of the recording studio. By the end of the day's recording, they could all notice that the smile on the face of Li Qian, the producer, had almost disappeared, and his brows were deep. Wrinkled, the apology became more trembling.

Even though Li Jinlong said during the box lunch together that in fact, these versions recorded so far can be done with post-production, Li Qian is still dissatisfied.

Well, Li Qian knows that Wuxing Wusu is not Liao Liao.

In terms of their style and market positioning, even now that Li Qian has joined in, their image and positioning have been reversed, but once their works come out, there are still very few people who will carefully break them and go there leisurely. Appreciate, because they are originally following the route of youth idols, not a powerful group like Liao Liao, so even if it is a post-synthesis version, it is actually nothing. However, that is only for certain songs. There is a song... As long as that song comes out, Li Qian believes that there will be people with a magnifying glass to pick out their lack of singing and singing skills.

Therefore, the previous pickiness is actually serving that song.

Not on the first day, only on the second day, and not on the second day. Starting from Monday, I will record for two hours every night.

Just recording and recording like this, Li Qian tortured the five girls and himself. Finally, after being forced to change three songs in a row and recording for a full week, they finally completed the first song. A sound recording of a work.

And then, perhaps because of the affirmation and encouragement of this success, their recording gradually became much smoother. In the following week, after completing two works one after another, finally, their recording in the recording studio The performance began to become more and more stable and mature, so the speed of completing the recording also accelerated accordingly. Before the arrival of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, they finally completed the third part of the album in the recording studio. One of the progress.

Coupled with the previous song "Chong! rush! rush! ", at present, there are six songs in their album that have been completed, and the last three songs are the song "Love Me!" written by Cao Zhan! " should not be too difficult, and they have already practiced it very well. "Love Birds" is relatively difficult, and "Night on the outskirts of Moscow" is slightly better, so...if the current state can be maintained, Li Qian is confident that he can perform well after the festival. Complete this other third of the recording over the course of a week.

And the remaining one-third of the progress, obviously, is the last big work.

That song, which has been sung for a hundred years, is regarded as the pioneering work of the combination of Chinese and Western music, and it is also a model of Dacheng. Even after a hundred years, it is still considered one of the best Chinese music works in the entire 20th century——

"farewell"!

... ... ...

Xie Bing finally sat on the back seat of Li Qian's bicycle.

But in fact, she was quite uneasy. Because she didn't know if Li Qian wanted to teach her some experience alone, or...in order to avoid embarrassing herself, she wanted to train herself alone?

In fact, she knows very well that even until now, her performance in the recording studio has always been the worst one - at least half of the times are because of her own mistakes, which ruined a recording .

In my imagination, sitting in Li Qian's backseat, holding her waist, and letting him lead me through the alleys of Jinan Mansion, should be a very sweet and happy thing, but now, obviously, All she had was nervousness and apprehension.

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, after discussing with Li Qian, the producer Li Jinlong gave them a holiday that was not too long or short - five days! So, before the festival came, everyone went back to their homes one after another.

It’s not easy to be in other industries, and it’s even more difficult to be their singers—ordinary workers, and some fake ones can take a few days off, or go back to their hometown to visit their parents, but they are in the entertainment industry, but it’s very difficult. There are few holidays.

In the past, during national holidays such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, New Year's Day, and Spring Festival, they were often the busiest time for them-the company would not let them idle there for a rest, and would always contact them. Appropriate commercial performances, and then send them out to earn more or less performance fees.

This year, it was mainly due to the production of the album. The company didn't know what was the consideration. After they were handed over to Li Jinlong and brought to Jinan, they didn't arrange any commercial performance tasks for two consecutive months.

And now, after finally getting a vacation, they all went home. Xie Bing also wanted to go home to see her parents whom she hadn't seen for almost a year, but after thinking about it, she still only made one phone call. I went back to report safety, and then stayed in Jinan Mansion. In the house rented by the company to several girls, I practiced and practiced against the wall alone...

Then, Li Qian's phone call came over suddenly.

Then, she simply changed her clothes and got on Li Qian's bicycle downstairs, but she didn't even dare to ask where she was going or what she was going to do.