Chapter 49 Making music costs money
Chen Fan added the WeChat of the director of the music company who wanted to buy the exclusive broadcast rights, and the two chatted for a while, Chen Fan felt that the other party's offer was quite reasonable, but he just asked for the exclusive broadcast rights, and he didn't want anything for the adaptation rights for other commercial purposes.
But the other party asked for twenty years of copyright, which made Chen Fan feel that the other party was a little insincere, with the depreciation of the currency, the three million in front of him seems to be a lot, but it may be worth three and a half million in the future, and the copyright is too long.
Chen Fan gave the other party a maximum of ten years, and after some conversation, he finally reached an agreement to give five million for a twenty-year copyright term.
The other party paid Chen Fan a deposit of 2 million first, and after getting the master tape, he paid 3 million, and Chen Fan guaranteed that he was the only one in the world who released this song.
In this parallel world, Chen Fan is indeed the first, and the first thing he does after getting the money is to find a decoration company.
Chen Fan came to the office building and swiped his card to the thirtieth floor, then came to his office, opened the secret grid, there were about fifty square meters inside, and Chen Fan asked to transform this place into a recording studio.
The recording studio is also known as the acoustic environment, and the whole house must be fully waterproofed and equipped with sound-absorbing cotton, as well as an outer soundproof panel, in order to minimize the reverberation.
This decoration is enough for 100,000 yuan, but this is the beginning, making music burns money, what is burned? software, genuine music software basically starts at 3,000, and then the integrated mixer, 1780,000 is called a mixer.
There are hundreds of gs of a sound source, which requires at least 32 cores of CPU, and now those music producers are playing 128 cores, and the hard disk server is essential, 1.5T memory module, to fill the hard disk server, not to mention adding up to dozens of T.
Monitor headphones, monitor speakers, professional-grade sound cards for various vocals, at least two to three sound cards and monitor speakers in a recording studio, and at least three microphones, because some microphones are suitable for children's voices, some are suitable for young people, and some are suitable for the elderly.
Generally, the 3,000 yuan of monitor headphones is the entry-level level, and the 20,000 or 30,000 yuan can be basically used, and the monitor speaker starts from 20,000 or 30,000 yuan to have an effect.
There are also 84-key music keyboards and so on, these miscellaneous hardware are complete, a computer starts with 100,000, monitor headphones are equipped with 100,000, microphone sound cards are 100,000, and integrated mixers are 100,000.
Then buy guitars, folk, electronic, classical, etc. for 100,000.
Do you think these are expensive? Even more expensive in the back, there are 10,000 reverberation hardware, and one sound source is seven or eight thousand, what is a sound source? Also known as a soft sound source, for example, the sound of a piano with millions of dollars, the strength of each key, you can't buy a piano with millions of dollars.
Some people use the best recording equipment in the best recording environment to record and sell the sound produced by each key with different dynamics.
There are also what the echoes of the world's major opera houses look like, what the sounds of primeval forests look like, the sound of children crying for the first time, and the sound of laughing for the first time.
The cost of purchasing a sound source is very high, and a sound source is tens or hundreds of gigabytes.
But it's not possible to operate all electronically, and sometimes you have to play and record it yourself on a real guitar to add it to a song, or a piano sound.
This has to spend money to buy, and there are also ready-made accompaniment sales, that is, the creator produces an accompaniment suitable for jazz songs, rock accompaniment, all of which are done for you, and you can sing directly or add a part of your own music to use.
The accompaniment is generally used at a time of five or six hundred, and for commercial performances it costs three or four thousand, and he is only a small piece of accompaniment, maybe just a few seconds, not too long.
Miscellaneous, a musician who can be regarded as a musician who lives on music needs a million at this price.
Of course, you say that ordinary arrangers can be arranged according to some people? Of course, it can add up to 18,000 is enough, the software is pirated, the sound source is pirated, and the mixing is synthesized by software instead of mixing effects.
First, it is illegal to use free sound sources for performances, unless you entertain yourself and do not use it for commercial gain, and you want to make commercial profits but don't want to be accused?
Many people choose to go abroad and choose to steal the arrangements and music source samples of some niche musicians, which is difficult to find unless professional musicians come out to fight fakes.
But there is another point why many people have to buy these equipment, and that is the quality of the master tape, some songs can't be used for performances, because they can't meet the requirements of performance equipment, just like a multi-million sports car, you put cheap tires on it, and it runs out of waste.
Now most musicians will make some of their own arrangements, and then find a professional music company to process, give a processing fee, the music company uses professional equipment to help you remake it, the price, cheap three or five thousand, this kind of basic few people find, the effect of music is also average, and the basic one that can be used starts with one or two thousand.
This is the so-called musician burning money, in addition to these, the most basic things you have to understand, music scores, you have to know that there are staves and staves, know the principle of music.
So Chen Fan admires those traversers very much, as soon as they cross, they make music and play it on the Internet, and the master tape can support lossless sound sources? Tens of thousands of headphones and stereos are sure that the playback is not a noise? Can you hear every drum beat clearly?
And you can't memorize the score and can't write a song at all, there are a lot of good voices, the voice is found in the world, and there are not a million but 800,000 good ones, which is not to mention, but the soul of a song is the arrangement and lyrics, and there are less than 10,000 good songs that may come out in tens or hundreds of years.
Many people have a song in their lives, and they can have dozens of golden songs that are basically the existence of gods, if there is only one person who can synthesize production, lyrics, and singing in one person in the previous life, it can be said that he is at the level of a king, and that is Brother Huajian, although nothing is considered the top, but the comprehensive ability is indeed no one who can compete with him in the Chinese music scene.
Some musicians are either good at lyrics, or good at arranging, or have a top voice, but if you put all of these together, it is definitely impossible to reach the top, and everything is limited, but if these abilities cannot be surpassed by seventy or eighty percent people, then it is very powerful.
Chen Fan connected with the people of the home improvement company, and it could be completed within a week, and then Chen Fan placed an order online to buy equipment, and in total, it cost a total of 780,000 yuan.
The investment of seven or eight hundred thousand yuan is really worth it, and the investment will be increased in the later stage, because Chen Fan has already written the lyrics and songs of an album, if there is no such equipment, even if Chen Fan releases a song, the effect may be average, because some arrangements are not synthesized by several software, especially if you want to sell the copyright and put it on the platform, you must be able to achieve lossless sound quality, and the platform can make money.
Huge Hai is arranging the desk, hollow-shaped office area, each person has a stall, and then he interviewed a few accountants and logistics departments, and gave Chen Fan the reason for admission and not admission, the accounting industry must find an old accountant, because the old accountant will do the accounting.
An old accountant and an accountant who have just left their jobs, an old man with a young one, and recruited three cleaning aunts, two procurement, three graphic design, two photography, four post-production, two personnel, three copywriters, three modeling designers, plus Liu Jing and Panghai, a total of five copywriters.
The company suddenly became popular, Chen Fan found a huge sea and asked him to release a message, he could make money at home as long as he moved his fingers to copy and paste some text, five cents for a text, salary per day, how many people want how many people.
Panghai didn't understand what Chen Fan meant, but he still went to post it.
Chen Fan knows that if he goes to talk to the major platforms now, it is impossible for people to take care of themselves, so they can only wait for them to come to him, and it will be easy to talk.