At the end of the 90s, there was no professional recording studio for the public in Shanghai, and the so-called music studio that Li Xin contacted was actually a piano shop.

This piano store called Jiamei Musical Instrument is a two-story European-style building located on Fenyang Road.

Walking into the door of the piano shop, you can see a beautiful grand piano, and a handsome man with long hair is sitting in front of the piano and playing impromptu.

Around him, far or near, stood several female students, presumably students from the nearby music university. The female students in this year are still relatively reserved, and they only dare to harass the man with their eyes, but they don't even have the courage to come forward and talk.

Li Yuan and his entourage walked into the piano shop in a majestic manner, and instantly destroyed the elegant artistic atmosphere.

The sound of the piano stopped, and the female students dispersed with regret or resentment.

Seeing the inquiring gaze from the man playing the piano, Li Xin stepped forward and asked, "Is it Teacher Han?"

The man shook his head and shouted upstairs in Shanghainese.

There was a sound from above, and immediately after, a white-haired old man in a crisp suit walked down the stairs.

The old man's eyes scanned, and finally fell on Li Xin's face, and asked with a smile: "You are the editor-in-chief Li of Sanlian, right?"

Li Xin walked up and shook hands with the other party: "Teacher Han, I'm sorry to trouble you." ”

"It's not troublesome," Teacher Han said with a smile, "A student was supposed to come over to record today, but he caught a cold, so you came at the right time." ”

Mr. Han introduced himself, his name is Han Yunsheng, he is a professor of instrumental music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and after retiring last year, he opened this piano shop, in addition to the sales of musical instruments, he also does musical instrument maintenance, music recording and music tutoring.

Han Yunsheng is obviously a music-obsessed person, and he didn't recognize Jin Yong — which is not surprising, in fact, before the widespread popularity of the Internet, many celebrities were unknown. However, the handsome man next to him looked at Jin Yong's eyes with some doubts, and seemed to recognize it, but he didn't ask any questions.

The handsome man was looking at Jin Yong, and Li Yuan was also looking at him.

To be honest, Li Yuan didn't expect to meet Li Xiang here.

Li Xiang, a "non-famous" male singer and music producer in the Chinese music scene.

The reason why he is not famous is because he has not been able to become popular since his debut in 1995 until 20 years later, and he is a typical singer who is not popular.

Li Xiang's musical talent is undoubted, he is known as a "musical talent", and the songs he writes are of a high artistic standard, but it is precisely because he pursues too much artistic sense that he seems to be a little high and low, which is difficult to be accepted and understood by the public.

Some people say that half a step ahead is a genius, and one step ahead is a madman.

Li Xiang is such a madman, he ignores the laws of the market, and builds his own music kingdom imaginatively, but he has always been ignored by the market.

He once confessed that he had thought about being a big star and wanted to prove himself, but time went by and he finally had to admit that he was a "loser".

Li Yuan doesn't think he's a loser, he just thinks he's really unlucky.

Li Yuan's two favorite domestic musicians, one is Dou Wei and the other is Li Xiang. One of them was born in Beijing and the other was born in Shanghai, known as the two great talents of the north and the south, but the fates of the two are very different.

What is little known about Li Xiang is that he debuted with the "Three Heroes of Magic Rock". Zhang Peiren signed two groups of geniuses in Beijing and Shanghai at the same time, and originally planned to hold high the two banners of "China Fire" and "China Sea" to encircle the whole of China, one north and one south, but in the end he only pushed the "China Fire" and then strategically retreated.

Li Yang then became an "orphan on the Bund". By the time his first solo album "Shanghai Dream" was released in 1995, "Magic Rock Culture" had become Taiwan's "Magic Rock Records", and the historical status of his fellow brother "Magic Rock Three Heroes" had been finalized overnight at the Hung Hom Coliseum in Hong Kong.

Worse is yet to come.

In 1997, Li Xiang withdrew from the second chapter of his solo album, which coincided with the widespread coldness of the Chinese music scene, not to mention him, even many singers who have been famous for a long time have suffered Waterloo, and newcomers like him are naturally even more unpopular.

Around 2000, Li Yang switched to BMG and successfully entered the Taiwan market with "The Tightrope Walker".

Since then, Li Xiang gave up his dream of being a superstar and tried to start a business, but unfortunately, he started his business twice, and finally failed......

Ironically, when all the big and small stars are busy participating in various entertainment programs, among the older generation of musicians in the mainland, it is the two geniuses from the north and south that Zhang Peiren excavated back then - one has long been outdated, and the other has never been popular, this is the price of dreams.

……

Li Yuan's complicated eyes were noticed by Li Yu.

Li Yang raised his eyebrows and gave him an inquiring look.

"You're Li Xiang, right?" asked Li Yuan.

"Hmm. ”

"I've listened to your albums. ”

"Oh. ”

"I heard you've joined BMG?"

"Hmm. ”

“……”

Can you still have a pleasant chat?

After Li Yuan was reborn, the invincible mouth cannon magic skill was deflated for the first time, and you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep, no matter how strong the mouth cannon is, you are afraid to shut up and meditate.

Li Yuan looked away, and it happened that Li Xin introduced him.

Li Xin pointed at Li Yuan and said to Han Yunsheng: "He is the Li Yuan I mentioned on the phone before." ”

Li Yuan bowed to Han Yunsheng and said, "Hello Mr. Han, I'm Li Yuan, I want to record a tune, I'm sorry for you." ”

"No hassle. Han Yunsheng said with a smile: "The recording studio is upstairs, you can choose the instrument first." ”

Li Yuan nodded, pulled Shen Zhuyin aside, and asked in a low voice, "The song I practiced before, is it okay?"

"You have to ask yourself this. Shen Zhuyin glanced at Li Yuan with disdain, and it was not a complicated tune, although she had only practiced for half a month, she was confident that it would not be a problem to play it completely, but it was Li Yuan, who obviously wrote the tune herself, but often played it wrongly.

She quietly looked back and asked, "That guy seems to be playing music?"

Li Yuan corrected: "People are professional players, the kind that have released albums. ”

Shen Zhuyin asked with a smile: "Isn't it sad to talk to someone and not be ignored?"

Li Yuan forcibly retorted: "I'm pitiful to him, so I have nothing to say......"

"......" Shen Zhuyin rolled his eyes and ruthlessly debunked him: "Obviously, you want to calculate other people's ...... again"

……

After choosing the instrument and coming upstairs, Li Yuan and Shen Zhuyin came to the recording studio.

When Li Yuan was thirty years old, in order to surprise his girlfriend, he once went to a professional recording studio to record a song, and the recording studio in front of him looked small except that it was smaller, but it was not much different, it was also divided into the inner and outer rooms, the outer room was the monitoring room, the inner room was the recording room, and the middle was separated by soundproof glass.

Surprisingly, there is a digital audio workstation in the listening room!

Li Yuan didn't know other equipment, but he still knew the famous Yamaha digital mixer.

Looking at the Apple computer again, Li Yuan thought to himself that Old Man Han was quite trendy.

Noticing Li Yuan's eyes, Han Yunsheng said with a smile, This set of equipment was given to me by Li Xiang, and I am not used to it, fortunately, he is here, let him record it for you in a while.

Li Yuan couldn't help but glance at Li Yan.

“……”

“……”

Li Yang still looks like no one is a bird, but there is more or less curiosity in his eyes.

Li Yuan touched the mixer and asked, "This table costs fifty or sixty thousand, right?"

"Almost. Li Yang rarely said two more words.

Looks like he's having a good time right now.

However, Han Yunsheng said more, and said proudly: "In terms of equipment alone, I have better than Shangyin's recording studio here, and the school leaders came to see it some time ago." ”

"None of the upper voices?"

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then recalled that a friend who played music in his previous life seemed to have said that the music engineering department was established two thousand years later, and before that, there really seemed to be no digital recording equipment.

Of course, even if you have hardware, you have to be able to use it.

Li Yuan asked Li Xiang, "Do you know how to use Auto-Tune?"

Li Yang looked back with contempt.

Why? Am I wrong?

Li Yuan's mind is full of confusion, is it possible that the software Auto-Tune has not come out at this time?

Li Yuan looked down at the computer desktop, yes, there is. Combined with Li Xiang's character, after thinking about it carefully, I realized why he despised it.

Auto-tune is an instant tuning software, and before it appeared, singers couldn't fix the pitch while recording, so they had to sing it over and over again until they were done.

The advent of Auto-tune has certainly made recording more efficient and varied, but it has also made many young singers no longer focus on their singing skills, so that they will have a car accident as soon as they sing live.

No wonder Li Yang despises it, he obviously regards Li Yuan as the kind of person who is a Canadian electric eel.

Decisive and unbearable!

But you have to endure it.

Li Yuan knew how many pounds and taels he had, and he thought that he was destined to be embarrassed today.

Early death and late death are all a matter of a knife, Li Yuan simply didn't think about it anymore, and called Shen Zhuyin into the recording studio.

There is not much space in the recording studio, but there should be everything, an electronic keyboard, a set of drums, a few speakers, a few stand microphones, and monitoring headphones, music stands and other gadgets.

Shen Zhuyin looked very excited, looking left and right with a look of excitement, which caused Li Xiang to roll his eyes again.

Li Yuan sat on the piano bench with the guitar in his arms, adjusted the height of the microphone to align it with the piano hole, and nodded to Shen Zhuyin, who was standing behind the electronic piano.

"Let's get started. ”

Li Yuan took a deep breath and plucked the strings......

Three minutes later, Li Yan's impatient voice came from the monitoring headphones: "Stop!"

Li Yan interrupted the performance, walked directly into the recording studio, and stretched out his hand to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, reacted, and handed him the guitar.

Li Yang adjusted the strings seriously, played a short piece of brilliance, returned the guitar to Li Yuan, and said with a straight face: "It's adjusted." ”

Hey my temper!

The corners of Li Yuan's eyes twitched, and he ...... decisively Endure it.

After teaching Li Yuan, Li Yang walked to the electronic piano again, and said while adjusting: "You can try the timbre of the bar piano, I think it may be better, in addition, you don't have to deliberately match his rhythm, just play it according to your feelings." ”

Li Yan said, directly demonstrated a paragraph, played and explained at the same time, and seemed very patient.

This differential treatment!

Li Yuan's nose was almost crooked, but he couldn't have a seizure, and he almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.

After instructing the two, Li Yang did not leave, but picked up the electric bass in the corner, adjusted it, and said, "Come again." ”