Chapter 29: Recording in progress
When the recording officially began, Zhao Zhenghao and others knew why Wu Weicheng, Yuan Helong, and Xie Zheng were recognized as the first people in their respective fields in China!
According to Cui Ran's arrangement, the first thing to record was the accompaniment.
Wu Weicheng, Yuan Helong, and Xie Zheng have only been in contact with Zhao Zhenghao's new album songs for a few hours, but when they walked into the recording room, after the recording began, they did not have the slightest rusty and jerky performance, and they reached out.
Zhao Zhenghao is the most familiar with these songs, and there is even more than one arrangement in his mind, but when Wu Weicheng and the three of them performed these songs according to Cui Ran's arrangement, he found that the effect was not worse than the mature works in his mind by one and a half minutes.
As soon as the master makes a move, he will know if there is one.
On the members of the "Heroic Spirit" band, it took less than three hours to record the accompaniment for a week or even a month, and it took less than three hours to complete it in the hands of Wu Weicheng.
The completion here does not refer to simply playing those songs, but to make a variety of interpretations according to the producer Cui Ran's understanding of the songs.
In the hands of a gold medal producer like Cui Ran, the tune is fast by one-eighth beat, and slow by eighths are two completely different effects.
Even the time for the picks to be in contact with the strings is one thousandth of a second longer, and the time for the drumsticks to be in contact with the drum face is one hundredth of a second earlier, and the effect of the performance is completely different!
Cui Ran's requirements for recording have been so harsh, often once after Zhao Zhenghao heard that it was already quite perfect playing, Cui Ran threw out a sentence, "Try one sixteenth of a higher tone", "The rhythm is slow by one-eighth beat", "The timbre is a little cleaner".
This made the members of the "Heroic" band ignorant and unclear about the requirements, but Wu Weicheng and a few people were able to interpret them appropriately.
Zhao Zhenghao himself carefully distinguished the two performance versions with a difference of only one-sixteenth of a key between the pitch and the pitch, and sure enough, he felt different attitudes and feelings.
For Cui Ran's musical sensitivity, as well as the superb performance level of Wu Weicheng and others, Zhao Zhenghao and others can only express their admiration!
At this time, the happiest person is Zhao Zhenghao.
In the process of recording the accompaniment, Zhao Zhenghao has been standing by Cui Ran's side, watching intently how he flicks his fingers, and pointing out a few words to Wu Weicheng in the recording studio, and he got the effect he wanted.
This kind of production process demonstrated live by top producers is not something that anyone can see.
Zhao Zhenghao, as a person who is also ambitious about production, naturally cannot let go of such a God-given opportunity.
An old fox like Cui Ran naturally won't fail to see Zhao Zhenghao's thoughts, and he is happy to see his studious attitude, without hiding his secrets, and teaching him his understanding of arrangement.
Zhao Zhenghao was hungry for learning, and felt that his production ability was skyrocketing.
Unconsciously, three hours passed, Wu Weicheng and the three of them completed their task perfectly, and the first step of album production ended here, but Zhao Zhenghao was still a little unfinished.
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Cui Ran didn't expect that tonight's recording would be so smooth, in his plan, being able to record the accompaniment of three songs tonight is already considered to have completed the task, and the plan is to use a week to record the accompaniment of ten songs on the album.
But I never thought that if Wu Weicheng, Yuan Helong, and Xie Zheng had divine help tonight, how could their subordinates come and overdo their work in the production of the album beyond the deadline.
Cui Ran looked at the time and found that it was only eleven o'clock, for those who only slept at dawn and got up at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, it was still noon, and the day was still long.
glanced at Zhao Zhenghao and asked, "How is your voice now, can you record it?"
Zhao Zhenghao had been waiting for Cui Ran's words for a long time.
He is also a person who truly loves music!
Otherwise, even if I was down again in my previous life, I would have insisted on staying on the road of music, even if I could only hang out in a bar, I never had the idea of giving up!
When Wu Weicheng and a few people recorded the accompaniment, Zhao Zhenghao's throat was itching, and he really wanted to join in immediately.
It's a pity that this is an album recording, not a practice, and there is Cui Ran sitting in front of him, a great god, who does not dare to act rashly.
"I'm in good shape, I can record at any time!" Zhao Zhenghao was already a little impatient.
Cui Ran is quite satisfied with these songs "created" by Zhao Zhenghao, but he still has no bottom in his heart about whether Zhao Zhenghao can sing the effect he wants.
So far, he has only heard one song by Zhao Zhenghao, which is "I Started Rocking".
And Zhao Zhenghao in "I Started Rocking", he used banter, ridicule, and sarcasm techniques, and there were not too many performances of real singing skills, making it impossible to accurately judge the level of his singing skills.
Cui Ran is already mentally prepared to fight a protracted battle for Zhao Zhenghao's album.
As long as Zhao Zhenghao's singing does not meet the standards he requires, he will continue to grind, even if it takes three months, half a year, or a year, he will not hesitate to do so.
In the end, if it really doesn't work, Cui Ran is also ready to destroy the signboard, and plans to use the method of picking out words to complete the production of this album.
However, as soon as Zhao Zhenghao, who walked into the recording room, opened his mouth, Cui Ran knew that all his psychological preparations had been useless!
Before, it was Cui Ran's production ability and Wu Weicheng's performance level that shocked Zhao Zhenghao and others, and now, it is Cui Ran, Wu Weicheng and others who are shocked by Zhao Zhenghao's singing skills!
Zhao Zhenghao's singing skills at 95 points now are not blown, but real skills!
After the magical transformation of the "super idol" system, Zhao Zhenghao's voice conditions can span eight octaves, and the high and low bass are at his fingertips.
In addition, these songs were carefully selected by him, and before that, he had also practiced countless times.
The experience of being a human being in two lives helped him to understand the connotation of these songs more and more deeply.
In addition, during the recording of the accompaniment just now, I have been told by Cui Ran's ear, and my understanding of the requirements for arrangement and the song is more thorough.
As a result, a mouth will enter the best state!
If it was just a song, Cui Ran and the others could barely accept it, but as the recording continued, Cui Ran and the others had fallen into a state of sluggishness.
Although the style of Zhao Zhenghao's new album is set to folk rock, the ten songs selected are not all folk rock, but include folk rock, soft rock, pop rock, hard rock and other genres.
And it's not all in Chinese, but also two English songs!