Chapter Seventy-Eight: Recording
As soon as the heat and white dew pass, the dryness gradually fades, and Jinan Mansion has some cool autumn coolness.
When Li Qian rode his bicycle between school, home, and Lao Dou Records, he gradually no longer had the situation of pedaling all the way and sweating profusely some time ago, and he could always face the cool autumn breeze and have a refreshing feeling.
At this time, it took about two weeks for Li Jinlong, who had been going back and forth between Shuntianfu and Jinan Mansion, to finally record the accompaniment of the previous five songs. For their small team of record makers, it was time for their first official studio recording.
Li Qian was not a professional in his previous life, and he has always entered the music circle as a layman in his life, so don't say that with the market positioning of the combination of five elements and five elements, there will not be too many requirements for singing skills at all, and even if there is, don't expect Li Qian to make any adjustments and guidance to them in the recording studio.
His recording requirements for the five elements are particularly simple: I listen to the right taste, just OK!
The recording studio is a special place, and it is not easy for people who have never been there to understand this.
In the recording studio, any slight flaw, tremor, or instability in your voice will be captured by advanced recording equipment and amplified without limits - ordinary people feel that their voice is good enough, go in and record it and listen to it yourself, you will feel that you are singing miserably!
Although it is necessary to make a record, it will definitely be done in the post-production, and it is indispensable to modify and process the sound through electronic devices and computers in the later stage, and even for some "singers" who are extremely poor in singing. You can also edit through your computer. Let's cut the good parts of the sound that have been recorded several times. Composition is a relatively "perfect" version, but there is no doubt that no post-production means can form an emotional unity more than a version directly from the studio.
Therefore, even if it is just from the perspective of the completion of the whole song, Li Qian also asked Wuxing Wusu to complete the work in the recording studio as much as possible to minimize the dependence on post-processing.
Besides, whether the singing skills are good or not is put aside. Consistent play is number one.
But the problem is that there are five people in the Five Elements.
Lao Dou Records has one of the most advanced and largest professional recording studios in the entire Jinan Prefecture, with a total of four microphone positions, which can theoretically accommodate up to eight people to record at the same time.
Therefore, the five elements have to be recorded at the same time, and there is not the slightest problem in terms of technology.
But as soon as the recording began, Li Qian's brows furrowed. Since then, his brow has barely opened.
That's right, the five elements do have a pretty good singing foundation. And after they joined Hua Opera, they have also undergone quite professional singing and acting training. In fact, they have already released an album and have no shortage of experience in the studio. But their biggest problem is that they are not stable enough.
Five people are recording at the same time, and whoever is a little unstable will immediately drag down the completion of the whole song. In fact, although they have paid great attention to a song, it is never one person who has gone wrong.
Of course, the biggest problem is Xie Bing.
Among the five girls in the Five Elements, Xie Bing's voice is not bad, and her singing skills are okay, but her voice is close to the sweet glutinous road, this kind of voice, when singing alone, especially a cappella without accompaniment, will be very good. But the problem is that it is precisely because of the sweetness of the sound quality that even if it is not a problem for others, it will become a big flaw in her - regardless of whether you admit it or not, in the time and space that Li Qian once experienced, since the sixties and seventies, until the new century, fifteen years have passed, and among the people with the best singing skills in the entire Chinese music scene, the name "Teresa Teng" must be indispensable.
Moreover, Xie Bing seems to be a little scared to go into the recording studio?
In short, every time someone makes a mistake, there will definitely be her!
The song has been practiced to a very familiar level, and Li Qian's requirements have all been told to them in the previous guidance, and they have all understood, so the current studio recording is only the stability of a few girls.
And so, over and over again, and over and over again.
And for the sake of protecting their voices, even if each of them doesn't sing all the time and has a lot of passages that can be rested, they will record for a maximum of two hours each time, and then they will have to rest for an hour.
So, a whole day of recording, which adds up to six to eight hours.
I didn't even finish the simplest song "Happy Baby".
By the end of the day's recording, the five girls were all a little worried, even Wang Jingxue, who had the most stable voice and the best singing skills, had been wrong I don't know how many times, not to mention Xie Bing, who was the most prone to mistakes.
During each break in the middle of the recording, as soon as the five girls came out of the recording studio, they were busy apologizing, and by the end of the day, they could all notice that the smile on Li Qian's face as a producer was almost gone, and his brows were deeply furrowed, and the apology became even more sincere.
Although Li Jinlong said when eating a boxed lunch together, in fact, with these versions recorded so far, post-production is fine, but Li Qian is still not satisfied.
Well, Li Qian knows that the Five Elements Wusu is not Liao Liao.
In terms of their style and market positioning, even now that Li Qian has joined in, they are already reversing their image and positioning, but as soon as their works come out, there are still few people who carefully break them down and enjoy them leisurely, because they originally took the route of youth idols, not a powerful faction like Liao Liao, so even if it is a later synthetic version, it is actually nothing. However, that's only for some songs, and there's one song...... As long as that song comes out, Li Qian believes that there will definitely be people with a magnifying glass to find out their shortcomings in singing and singing skills.
Therefore, the previous pickiness is actually in the service of that song.
If you don't do it on the first day, you can't do it on the second day, and from Monday onwards, you record for two hours every night.
Just recorded and recorded, Li Qian tortured the five girls and tortured himself, and finally, after being forced to reluctantly change three songs in a row and recording for a week, they finally completed the recording of the first work.
In the following week, after completing two more pieces one after another, finally, their performance in the studio began to become more and more stable and mature, so the speed of completing the recording also accelerated, and before the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, they finally completed one-third of the progress of the album in the studio.
Coupled with the previous song "Rush, Rush, Rush!", there are currently six songs that they have completed on this album, and the next three, the song "Love Me!" written by Cao Zhan should not be too difficult, they have already practiced very well, "Lovebirds" is relatively difficult, and "Night on the outskirts of Moscow" is slightly better, so ...... If he can maintain his current form, Li Qian is confident that he will be able to complete the other third of the recording in a week after the holiday.
And the remaining one-third of the progress, obviously, is the last big piece.
The song that has been sung for a hundred years and is regarded as the pioneering work of the combination of Chinese and Western music, and it is also a model work, and it is still considered one of the best Chinese music works in the entire 20th century until a hundred years later.
"Farewell"!
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Xie Bing finally got on the back seat of Li Qian's bicycle.
But in fact, she is quite unsure. Because she didn't know if Li Qian wanted to teach her any experience alone, or ...... In order to avoid being too embarrassed, you have to take yourself out and train yourself alone?
In fact, she herself knows very well that even now, her performance in the studio has always been the worst - at least half of the times, because she made a mistake and ruined a recording.
In my imagination, sitting in the back seat of Li Qian, hugging her waist, and letting him take him through the alleys of Jinan Mansion should be a very sweet and happy thing, but now, obviously, she is only nervous and apprehensive.
Well, after discussing with Li Qian during the Mid-Autumn Festival, producer Li Jinlong gave them a vacation that was not long or short - five days! So, before the festival arrived, everyone went back to their homes one after another.
It's not easy to do other industries, and it's even more difficult to be their singers - ordinary staff, and this fake and that fake can take a few days off, or go back to their hometown to visit their parents, but they are engaged in the entertainment industry, but they rarely have a holiday.
In the past, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, New Year's Day, Spring Festival and other holidays of the people of the country, but often it was the busiest time for them - the company would not let them go there for a holiday and rest, but would always contact them with suitable commercial performances, and then send them out to earn more or less performance fees.
This year, mainly because the album is being produced, the company doesn't know what the reason is, after handing them over to Li Jinlong and bringing them to Jinan, they didn't arrange any commercial performance tasks for two consecutive months.
And now, they finally got a vacation, they all went home, Xie Bing also wanted to go home to see her parents who hadn't seen her for almost a year, but after thinking about it, she still only made a phone call to report her safety, and then stayed in Jinan Mansion, in the house that the company rented for a few girls, a person kept practicing against the wall, kept practicing......
Then, Li Qian's phone call came 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. (To be continued......)