Chapter Twenty-Five: Signing the Red Wolves
In the early morning, several people in the recording studio had dark circles under their eyes and were in high spirits. Ye Mingxuan and Lao Cao had a big disagreement over the accompaniment of a letter from home.
Lao Cao believes that "A Letter to Home" should be the same as "An Ordinary Day", with a simple guitar accompaniment, while Ye Mingxuan believes that the timbre of the guitar is not enough to express the feelings of the song, at least not completely, and other instruments must be added.
The Red Wolves also had their own ideas and wanted to add some pop elements, adding some light drum beats, piano, bass, etc. It's closer to Ye Mingxuan's thoughts. But no matter what, there must be a guitarist, Chen Ting and Chen Yao practiced.
"Such a good song, with an instrument that adds pop factors, can ruin the atmosphere of the whole song. ”
"No, it's too monotonous with only the guitar accompaniment, and I know that this song is best performed in a practical folk way, but as a musician, we also have to consider the audience of the music. ”
"You only use guitar on the show, why not?"
The two of them were red-faced and arguing, and no one could convince anyone. They all looked at each other with their necks crossed, if they weren't responsible for the music, how could they quarrel? If it wasn't for their love for Ye Mingxuan's talent, how could they argue? Everyone understood that this was the quality that musicians should have.
"Can you record two versions?" said the youngest Wang Jun in a low voice.
Everyone looked at him. "I'll just talk about it. Wang Jun shrunk his neck. Ye Mingxuan's attitude towards his music made him a little scared.
Ye Mingxuan and Lao Cao glanced at each other and nodded heavily.
"Copy guys, work, work. Xiaoye, let's record your version first. ”
After recording the accompaniment of the two versions, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiao Ye, hold on a little longer, record the song, and then go to rest. ”
"Xiao Ye, the first half of the song has to be tense, can't burst out, like chatting at home, and tell the feeling. ”
"Xiaoye, there are a few scales in the middle that haven't been handled well, do it again. ”
"Xiao Ye, the feelings in the second half are not enough, not enough, not enough, the feelings must be sincere and start over. ”
"Xiaoye, do it again. ”
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"Xiaoye..."
"Uncle Cao, do you want to come again?" Ye Mingxuan looked at Lao Cao tiredly.
Lao Cao took off his monitoring headphones and looked at Ye Mingxuan seriously, "Xiao Ye, you are the young man with the best attitude and the most serious attitude I have ever met." Don't forget your original intention. ”
"Uncle Cao, is it okay?"
"It was ok, it was perfect. It's perfect. Lao Cao's face was excited, and the exhaustion of his body was swept away. "Xiao Ye, you go and rest first, I'll go and synthesize the song, fix the noise a little, and then you can send it." ”
"Huh~ Uncle Cao, let's rest and do it again"
"I'm fine, you go and rest first, and I'll call you when it's done." ”
"Uncle Cao, it's troublesome, it's really a little unbearable, and my throat hurts. Ye Mingxuan took the throat lozenge handed over by Lao Cao.
…
was listening intently to the finished song, Lao Cao's phone rang.
"Lao Cao, where is Xiao Xuan?" Mr. Huang's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I'm sleeping!" replied impatiently.
"You're good at what you can do! I'm impatient just to say a few words?"
"Xiao Ye's two songs are finished soon, and I'm listening to the effect, and you called, do you say you're annoying?"
"You don't turn off your phone when you record songs?"
"I just opened it for a while, and I hurriedly said something about it, and I was busy!"
"Let Xiao Ye come to my company in the afternoon, there is something wrong. Don't forget. ”
"Got it, got it, hung up. Lao Cao hung up the phone impatiently.
Two of Ye Mingxuan's songs were replayed. After listening to it a few times from beginning to end, he nodded in satisfaction. Put the sound source into the memory card and go out of the control room. I saw Ye Mingxuan and the young people of the Red Wolf Band lying on the chairs in the recording studio.
Wake them up one by one, and wave their hands to signal them to wash up first.
Seeing that they were more energetic, they took out the memory card. "It's all done, Chen Ting, you take Xiao Ye and the band to listen to the effect. I see that people can't bear it, and I'm going to rest, and after listening, let's get out of here with this kid. Don't bother me. ”
Without waiting for the people of the Red Wolf Band to say a word, Lao Cao went out. "By the way, Xiao Ye, Lao Huang asked you to go directly to his company. ”
Chen Yao opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.
"This will always be our home. Chen Yao whispered to herself.
Chen Ting cleaned up his mood and began to play the song, and several people listened quietly.
"Dear Mom and Dad,
Are you guys okay
… Salute now. ”
"It's amazing, it's really amazing, I didn't expect us to be able to accompani such a great song. Die without regrets. The youngest Wang Jun happily pulled Chen Yao's arm, "Sister Chen Yao." Do you hear that? We can make great music, we can make great music. As he spoke, he burst into tears. In the past two years, the Red Wolf Band has suffered too many grievances, until this moment, the youngest Wang Jun finally cried.
"Xiaojun, don't cry. We should be happy now, our Red Wolf Band will definitely be popular. Chen Yao comforted Wang Jun.
After Wang Jun's mood stabilized, Chen Ting continued to play another version of "A Letter from Home".
Ye Mingxuan nodded, and then played "Ordinary Day".
After all three songs were played, Ye Mingxuan nodded with satisfaction. "Okay, let's go to the company with me!"
Previously, when going through the studio procedures, Ye Mingxuan was in Mr. Huang's office. took the five members of the Red Wolf Band directly to Mr. Huang's office.
Teacher Huang looked at the Red Wolf Band with strange expressions. "Xiao Xuan, why did you still kidnap Lao Cao's baby band back after recording two songs?"
Mr. Huang and Lao Cao are very familiar with each other, and they know that these young people are all very good young people.
"Mr. Huang, I want to sign them into the studio, and Uncle Cao agreed. Ye Mingxuan explained
"You kid, the studio hasn't taken shape yet!" Mr. Huang shook his head. "Sign a contract to sign your studio, and leave the daily management and the like to me here! When I go to the mushroom house, tell you Mr. He, that many programs on Shonan Station need to use bands. Let him arrange a show to do live accompaniment first to enhance his fame. Teacher Huang turned his head and asked a few members of the Red Wolf Band. "Is that okay?"
Although they asked, the Red Wolf Band also knew that they had no choice, if it weren't for the umbrella of Teacher Huang and Teacher He, they wouldn't be able to get on the show at all, and they all nodded in agreement with Teacher Huang's arrangement.
Mr. Huang gave the Red Wolf Band the most ordinary third-tier artist contract, after all, the Red Wolf Band has not appeared in front of the public for two years.
After negotiating the contract of the Red Wolf Band, they let the Red Wolf Band take a few people away.
"Xiao Xuan, let's deal with your own problems. ”
"What's wrong, Teacher Huang?" Ye Mingxuan asked puzzled.
"Both songs are recorded, right?"
Ye Mingxuan nodded, "It's recorded, I'm very satisfied." Uncle Cao is this. Ye Mingxuan gave a thumbs up.
"I've called several times in the past few days to ask about your songs. Do you have any ideas of your own?"
"Teacher Huang, what is your opinion?" Ye Mingxuan thought for a moment
Teacher Huang pondered, "Although your song is very popular, there are many people asking for songs on the Internet. But after all, you can only be regarded as a newcomer, and the platform will not give you too much share. My idea is to find a big platform, it doesn't matter if you have less money, you can improve your fame and expand your popularity first. ”
"Teacher Huang, what conditions do you generally give to newcomers like me?"
"There aren't newcomers like you, but I can give you a reference. Generally, third-tier well-known singers buy out the copyright when they release songs, with a slightly better 20% commission and a first-line 50%, and the superstar-level platform does not receive a commission, and the platform also has to give a lot of licensing fees. Mr. Huang explained the income of the current singing scene.
"In the afternoon, I'll invite the heads of several major platforms over to see what they have got! With the face of me and you, Mr. He, it won't be too low, don't worry." ”