Chapter 117: New Album

Moving the instrument into the recording studio, Cao Wu and the others came to the listening room.

After turning around, Cao Wu had already recognized the strength of this recording studio.

Not to mention anything else, just these tens of millions of equipment and decoration are not willing to be invested by laymen.

Although the long-haired recording engineer looked rough and his beard was not clean, the monitoring room was clean and spotless, which made Cao Wu very satisfied.

When he was a producer, he also met some of his peers, and the listening room was messy, and there were ashtrays on the equipment, and the cigarette ash fell into the equipment and was not cleaned.

That kind of guy either has real skills, or he is a pure second-year.

Cao Wu has always believed that making music should have a heart of awe.

99% of all living things on Earth communicate through sound, and those are the most primitive music. Before the advent of words, it was the only way for beings to communicate with each other, to make other beings feel their love, hate, anger, and happiness.

On this basis, humans evolved language. Language, that is, more complex primitive music.

It has a specific meaning, but it still has the power to move the heart in itself.

It is a pure power, a power that has been in the genes of life itself from the very beginning of life.

Until the advent of words.

Pointing to the "No Smoking" sign hanging on the wall, the long-haired sound engineer said with a straight face: "Smoking is not allowed in the studio, this is the first rule." ”

Niu Li smiled: "Teacher Yue, our band doesn't smoke. ”

"Hmm. The long-haired recording engineer was noncommittal, and said: "My name is Yue Qianfan, I am a very disciplined person, one yard is one yard, since I have promised your schedule, I will not change it again." ”

"You're making an album this time, and it's less than a month away, so it's very rushed. So, if you want to finish the album on time, you have to fully cooperate with my request. ”

Everyone has no opinion on this, Yue Qianfan nodded with satisfaction, and said: "I have heard your sample, it should be the arrangement and post-tuning done by a master, but I can still hear it, the level of instrumental performance is a little unsatisfactory, except for the guitar, he is better, everything else has to be practiced well." ”

Batu and Lele were a little unconvinced, as if they saw that they had opinions, Yue Qianfan said: "Don't be unconvinced, recording an album is different from your usual band and live play, each instrument must be recorded separately to ensure clarity and will not be disturbed, which requires a high level of players, and the drum usually has to maintain several sections of rhythm without disorder, and the difference of five thousandths of a second will be obvious." Can a bass guitar be guaranteed to be error-free without a drum rhythm?"

Lele pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: "You don't have to be so troublesome when you record at Cao Wu's house......"

Her voice was small, but it was noticeable in the quiet listening room.

Yue Qianfan was a little surprised, looked at Cao Wu and asked, "You recorded all those songs?"

Cao Wu nodded: "My dad is engaged in dubbing, and there is a small recording studio at home with some equipment, so in order to save money, we recorded it at my house." ”

Yue Qianfan was speechless, he originally only knew that these songs were written by Cao Wu, but he didn't expect that he also had research on recording and post-production.

And when he listened to the original song sample, he found that the level of people in the later stage was not low, but he really didn't think that it would be Cao Wu who did it.

"In that case, let's record you first!" Yue Qianfan said: "Is it okay to have no drums?"

Band recordings are generally done first, and after the rhythm of the drums, it is much easier for other instruments to follow up.

Cao Wu pointed to the headphones in the recording studio behind the glass partition window and said, "Just give a rhythm." ”

Yue Qianfan nodded, he had already determined that Cao Wu really knew how to do it.

There were two recording studios, and he asked an assistant to take Batu to another studio to record the drums, and Lele and Aomatsu to go to the rehearsal room to practice their scores, and he himself stayed to record Cao Wu's guitar.

In this month, he has to make at least all the accompaniment of the new album of ten songs, and with the accompaniment, it is much easier to sing.

In one month, ten accompaniments, and one accompaniment in three days.

Even if there is already a ready-made arrangement, the workload is not ordinary.

In this case, you have to get the work you are sure of first, and then slowly gnaw the hard bones.

Flipping through the recording schedule, Yue Qianfan couldn't help but rub the back of his neck, which was his habitual action to slowly get excited.

Not to mention anything else, the songs that this Black Hole Band came up with are really better than the other.

He has been engaged in this industry for many years, and he has recorded a lot of singers and bands, and he has heard countless songs, and there are really not many songs that can reach the level of the Black Hole Band.

How could a band so young be so changeable in style?

Among the young bands he has come into contact with, there are also many talented groups, but he can see some shadows of his predecessors.

Musical styles are rarely innate, and most of them are influenced and inherited by others.

But in the Black Hole Band, especially in this Cao Wu, he didn't see this kind of shadow.

As if out of nowhere, almost every song he wrote was in a different style, and it had never been seen before.

Is this true genius?

The album, tentatively titled "Rock on the Road of New Life", contains a total of ten songs, seven of which were written by Cao Wu.

"Stubborn", "All Choose C", "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty", "Don't Come to Pester Me", "Believe in Yourself", and "Once You" These six capitals have already released demo versions.

The first two songs may still be able to hear a little bit of rhythm and blues, but since "Dreaming Back to the Tang Dynasty", Yue Qianfan has not understood it at all.

He had never been exposed to that kind of majestic and magnificent arrangement, and he had never even thought about it.

And the style of "Don't Come to Entangle Me", which is so violent that it is ignited like a dynamite canister, is completely beyond his understanding, and this new sensory experience is also the reason why he is willing to let the Black Hole Band cut the line.

However, what surprised him the most was that it was not Cao Wu's prerogative to write songs, and this album also included three songs by other members.

They are Lele's "Snow in the Alps", Lu Qingsong's "52 Hz", and Batu's "Dark Horse".

Moreover, these three songs are also a completely new style.

The arrangement of the song "Snow in the Alps" is even more complex than that of "Dreaming Back to the Tang Dynasty", which uses a large symphonic soundtrack and soprano chanting to set the stage, with a strong Nordic musical style, tells the story of a girl who waits for her father to return to the sacred mountain to slay dragons for the sake of the village.

Lu Qingsong's "52 Hz" is a new age music that can be called electronic music, almost all of its soundtrack is made through synthesizers, and the whole song has only four lyrics, which tells the loneliness of a whale swimming alone in the sea.

Batu's "Dark Horse" style is somewhat similar to "Don't Come to Pester Me" but it is different, faster and heavier than that, and the word "Humai" at the beginning made Yue Qianfan not understand, isn't that a unique Mongolian singing technique rarely used in folk music? Can it also be integrated into rock music?

As for the new song that Cao Wu added at the end, Yue Qianfan couldn't understand it at all, so could it still be called a song?