Chapter 0142 - Record a song

Soon, Xu Luyao changed her clothes and came out, took Zeng Wei out of the door, and went to the place where the band she was looking for was located.

The band Xu Luyao found was seven or eight people, but they were all old birds, and when she heard her say that she wanted to record a song, she immediately understood what was going on.

The leader of the band is a young man with long hair, but he has been in the industry for seven or eight years, which can be regarded as the elite of the industry, and several other musicians have been in the industry for more than three or four years, and they are a team that can be pulled out to fight at any time.

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In general, songs are recorded with the help of an accompaniment tape. This time, with ready-made bands available, the situation was different.

The main equipment in the recording studio is computers, professional sound cards, mixers, condenser microphones, microphone amplifiers, vocal effects, and professional monitors. Headphones, headphone splitters, etc., a whole bunch of zero-zero totals.

The configuration of the computer is not high, the mainstream is Ben 1 and Ben 2, and the higher Ben 3 will not be available until two or three years later. However, the computer in the recording studio is of a higher grade than the configuration on the market, and it is still possible to use it for recording configuration. But in Zeng Wei's eyes, it was still too simple.

It's really that after playing with the personal computers with quad-core or six-core processors, it is really miserable to look back at those Ben 1 and Ben 2 computers, which is why Zeng Wei has not put a few computers in his home like some successful people. He just brought a notebook with him to code words at any time.

The core equipment in the recording studio is the mixer, without which you can't record songs, although some systems don't use this, that's because the computer's sound card inherits this part of the content, not that it is not needed at all.

The more expensive ones are monitors and headphone microphones, which are professional-level, the difference between professional and amateur, mainly reflected in these devices, and the difference in price is very large.

Zeng Wei weighed the weight of the microphone, it was very heavy, and it was really created by heavy money.

Another important thing is the microphone amplifier, which has a lot to do with the sound quality recorded in the studio.

But a good amplifier is expensive, and ordinary players can only be intimidated, in fact, if the funds allow, and want to play music, it is better to buy one.

Although you can use the gain on the mixer to achieve signal amplification without buying it, there is no professional microphone amplifier, and the sound quality is really far away!

Another interesting piece of equipment is the microphone pop filter, which is designed to prevent the singer's breath from being sprayed onto the condenser microphone and producing a "poof" sound.

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After the recording engineer explained the precautions to everyone, the staff asked the staff to help Zeng Wei adjust the microphone, put on headphones for him, and then make a preliminary recording with the accompaniment of the band.

This time the main thing is to let the singer find a feeling and feel whether his voice matches the sound of the accompaniment.

After Zeng Wei put on the headphones, he felt it, and then asked the recording engineer to help him adjust the pitch, and found that there were occasional pops, so he asked the recording engineer to adjust the level, and then hummed along with the accompaniment, which was familiar.

"Boss, let's be formal?" The recording engineer felt that the effect was okay, so he asked Zeng Wei.

People in Anhui like to call strangers bosses, just as people in Xichuan like to call strangers teachers.

Zeng Wei nodded, the band's music sounded, entered his hearing range through the headphones, and he was very involved in entering the main recording program, at this time, all thoughts were put down, and he was determined to finish singing this song.

"Xiao Xu, has this kid ever practiced? This look, it seems that there is no need to make up the record. The recording engineer was listening outside, and asked Xu Luyao in great surprise.

"He is an original songwriter, what style is not up to him, and it is reasonable to sing well. Xu Luyao listened blankly outside, and replied casually.

Although it was not the first time Xu Luyao had heard Zeng Wei sing, it was the first time she had heard him sing in this formal recording environment, and she suddenly felt that his singing voice was very attractive, which made her a little distracted.

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A song was recorded quickly, and the recording engineer preserved Zeng Wei's dry voice and checked it twice from beginning to end, feeling very satisfied.

Then he began to post-effect and post-process each song, and it didn't take long to complete the mix, and then let go for everyone to listen to the effect.

The equipment in the recording studio is much better than the equipment used in the house, and the sound quality has been corrected to the most perfect state, so that Zeng Wei was a little surprised after listening to it, and asked in disbelief: "Is this really what I sang?"

The recording engineer listened to his newly recorded results with his eyes closed a little intoxicated, and said to Zeng Wei with a smile: "Very good! In fact, the songs recorded in the recording studio are definitely hundreds of times better than those you recorded with your own home tape recorders! Professional! Professional! Post-production! They are all very important! Most of the singing you usually see on the stage is lip-syncing!"

"Celebrities also lip-synched?" asked Xu Luyao in disbelief.

"Of course. It's easy to lip-sync without worrying about going out of tune or forgetting lyrics. If you sang every performance, you wouldn't be tired!" replied the sound engineer as a matter of course.

Zeng Wei also said after listening to it: "This is the unspoken rule of the entertainment industry, everyone is lip-syncing, so it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong." In fact, many of your idol singers have the effect in the recording studio, if you really sing live, it is estimated that she will not even be able to sing half of it!"

"Hit my idol!" Xu Luyao said with some dissatisfaction.

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"Boss, it's rare for you to come over once, why don't we shoot the MV together?" Seeing the rare opportunity, the recording engineer lost no time in suggesting.

I didn't think about it.

Zeng Wei was stunned for a moment, but thinking that this was also the first song he recorded independently, he should have put some thought into it, so he nodded and agreed.

The sound engineer also works as a director, and when he saw that Zeng Wei agreed, he immediately ordered someone to prepare various props. Then, according to his own understanding of music, he instructed Zeng Wei on how to cooperate.

However, filming MV, it is naturally impossible to just let a big man stand alone and sing stupidly, and it is inappropriate to have no beautiful foil.

But what kind of model should I look for to match the boss? Because Zeng Wei is too young and looks more tender, ordinary models are really not suitable.