Chapter 53 Recording Technology
In this world, electronic music appeared in the fifties of the last century. Pen ~ fun ~ ka www.biquge.info from the day electronic music was created, this kind of music, which can imitate the sound of almost any musical instrument, immediately became popular in the world.
In the beginning, electronic music was mostly used in dance music, film scores, advertising soundtracks, some pop songs and rock music, and then in the 70s of the last century, the famous German musician Oppenheimer tried to add electronic music to the symphony, and the results were very good.
And this bold attempt has also given the world another form of music - electronic symphony.
The electronic symphony of this world, according to the proportion of electronic music in it, can be roughly divided into two kinds, one is called "symphonic electronic music", as the name suggests, this kind of symphony is mainly played by conventional symphonic instruments, in which electronic music is like an ordinary conventional instrument, in the whole symphony only occupies an auxiliary role.
This way of playing is also the most symphonic performance in the world. Even the Royal Symphony Orchestra of the Chinese Empire, the world's top symphony orchestra, introduced electronic music as early as 20 years ago.
There is also a way called "electronic symphony", which is a veritable electronic symphony. Because this way of playing is mainly electronic, almost the whole symphony is sampled in DJ, and then various synthesizers are used to simulate the performance effect of conventional instruments, so that the whole symphony is almost entirely played with electric sound.
This kind of performance is rare in this world, after all, any symphony is very complex and huge, if an ordinary pop song is compared to a family car, then a symphony is equivalent to a space shuttle......
Therefore, to play an entire symphony with electronic sounds, sampling alone is a very large project, and with the post-production of sound effects, the workload is much more than playing a symphony with ordinary instruments. Therefore, in this world, a very pure electronic symphony is extremely rare.
Although the "Conquest of Heaven" composed by the grandmaster is not a symphony synthesized entirely with synthesizers, electronic music also accounts for more than seventy percent of it, which is already a very high proportion.
And although this "Conquest of Heaven" is a symphony with a length of less than five minutes, which is much shorter than ordinary symphonies, this is an out-and-out symphony after all, and there are more than ten kinds of instruments used in it, so if the creator of the grandmaster is not in front of him, Bai Jie will not be able to cope with it alone.
It was precisely for this reason that Bai Jie said that he would call the Grandmaster over for on-the-spot guidance.
However, Bai Jie's approach is also quite correct, with the addition of the grandmaster, the sampling process is immediately sped up a lot.
The master of the score of "Conquest of Heaven" has already been handed over to Captain Zhang and Captain Liu, and with the joint supervision of these two leaders and the efforts of many members, whether it is the performance of the symphony orchestra or the chorus of the choir, they have initially reached the level of performance.
However, when performing a performance, the recording is a recording, and compared with the high requirements of live performances, the recording requirements of this electronic symphony are relatively low.
After all, a large part of the composition can be done with only a synthesizer, and the use of microphone matrix recording technology and staged multi-track (mix) recording technology has made it much easier to record.
It is very troublesome to record a symphony orchestra, especially those with three or even four winds, because even the smallest single-pipe orchestra has more than 40 instruments playing at the same time, not to mention those large orchestras with hundreds of people, and once an orchestra of that size performs, it can play hundreds of instruments alone.
Moreover, the distance between each instrument in the symphony orchestra is relatively small, so how to accurately record the notes played by these many instruments has become a very troublesome problem.
Under the trouble of such a problem, people invented the "multi-microphone recording technology", the so-called "multi-microphone recording technology" generally refers to the technology of using 16 recording microphones for recording and sampling.
When recording a symphony, it's not that the more microphones you have is better, but there are a lot of technical reasons involved, like if you put a microphone on each instrument in a three-pipe orchestra, then you end up recording music that can only be called "a cacophony". Therefore, the number and placement of the recording microphones are extremely important, which is also the key to whether a symphony can be recorded in its entirety.
After continuous attempts, the number of recording microphones used in recording symphonies was set at 16, but with the continuous development of electronic technology and the limitations of 16 recording microphones, in recent years, people have invented a more advanced recording technology, that is, "microphone matrix recording technology".
After overcoming the problem of electronic interference between recording microphones, the number of recording microphones was increased from 16 to 33, and the position of each recording microphone was more scientific, so this microphone matrix recording technology, which had just appeared for more than three years, quickly became popular around the world.
Almost every symphony orchestra now uses this latest microphone matrix recording technology.
As for the reason why the "staged multi-track (mix) recording" technology is used for recording, rather than the more advanced "simultaneous multi-track (mix) recording" technology, it is also because this recording method is the most suitable recording method for this electronic symphony.
Because of the use of staged multi-track recording technology, not only can it perfectly reflect the pitch and rhythm of the orchestra performance, but also the music between the various parts of the music color is clearly layered, do not interfere with each other when playing, and the frequency response and dynamic range of the music are also very wide.
Of course, although this recording method has many advantages, its disadvantages are also relatively obvious, and one of the main disadvantages is that the cost of recording with this recording method is quite high.
After all, this kind of recording method can only be recorded by playing it over and over again, and usually if you use this method to record a symphony with a duration of more than 40 minutes, the time in the studio alone will be more than a week or even ten days, so this recording method is the largest investment in the recording method, and the average orchestra really can't afford to play.
In the Dahua Empire, a large-scale professional-grade recording studio that can be used to record symphonies costs as much as 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a day, and the cost of recording a piece for ten days and eight days alone is hundreds of thousands, and if you include the cost of orchestra musicians, it will be even higher.
However, fortunately, the Tianqu Symphony Orchestra has its own professional recording studio, and Captain Zhang and Captain Liu are both begging for grandmasters, so this part of the fee was directly waived.
A symphony that is enough to be sung all over the world is definitely worth creating by Captain Zhang for free.