Chapter 105: A Difficult Recording
"It's Saturday tomorrow? Recently, I've been so busy reviewing that I've forgotten about it for weeks. When Chen Lang heard Chen Shufen say that she would record tomorrow, he reacted, and five days had passed.
"Lang Lang, you've been so tired lately, it doesn't matter, right?" When Chen Shufen heard Chen Lang's words, she was a little worried about Chen Lang's body.
"Don't worry, I'm a martial arts practitioner, but I've been busy lately and forgot the time, so I'll go to the wireless at half past eight tomorrow morning to start recording." Chen Lang said.
"Okay, we'll see you tomorrow then." After speaking, Chen Shufen hung up the phone.
Chen Lang called Tang Xiaomei again, saying that he was going to record tomorrow and had no time to go out with her. Tang Xiaomei was very understanding and wanted to go to TVB with Chen Lang, wanting to see how Chen Lang recorded, and to accompany Chen Lang to finish recording the first album, Chen Lang was moved for a while and felt even more guilty.
The next day, Chen Lang insisted on exercising and took a taxi to Repulse Bay early, picked up Tang Xiaomei to come out for breakfast together, and only came to the TVB TV station after eating your and my nong's breakfast, and just got out of the car, I saw that Xu Fang was already waiting downstairs.
"Lang Lang Zao, Pepe Zao, I'll take you to the recording studio." Xu Fang saw the two people getting off the taxi and immediately greeted them warmly.
"Hello, Sister Fang." Tang Xiaomei responded politely.
"Then I'll trouble you, Sister Fang." Chen Lang pulled Tang Xiaomei to follow behind Xu Fang, Huaxing's recording studio Chen Lang really couldn't find it, and it was the first time he came to the famous Huaxing Record Company.
Huaxing is a subsidiary of TVB, and previously only Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan were responsible for assisting in the concert, and the record department was established in 1975, and now the first artist singer Chen Lang has been signed.
The company's staff is still very small, and even the studio is not large, which is still in the case of increasing the number of personnel in preparation for the launch of the "Rookie Singer Competition" next year.
Chen Lang looked at the small studio with some emotion, who would have thought that this small company would be an indelible mark on the Hong Kong music scene and even the Chinese music scene in the future, cultivating countless superstars and creating countless brilliance, now everything is still at the beginning, and all the glory will start from themselves.
Chen Lang and the two were quickly taken by Xu Fang to a small conference room, where there were already three people seated. The two main persons in charge of Huaxing, Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan, are there, but the other person is Gu Jiahui.
"Lang Lang, you are here, I believe that you don't need me to introduce you." Chen Shufen pointed to Gu Jiahui on the side and said.
"Hello, Lang Lang, we finally met again, I have been looking forward to this meeting for a long time." Gu Jiahui looked at Lang Lang in front of him and said with deep meaning.
"Actually, before we signed with you, we had already contacted Ah Hui and asked him to be the producer of your first album." Chen Shufen thought that Gu Jiahui was talking about this matter, and deliberately explained.
"Hello, Teacher Gu!" Chen Lang saw that Gu Jiahui, who had always been a little special to him, greeted him a little stiffly, Chen Lang could feel Gu Jiahui's appreciation for himself, but he seemed to have high requirements for himself, and he didn't know if he was like this to all the people he fancied, or only to himself.
"Lang Lang should be recording for the first time, and he is not very familiar with recording, so I will take him to familiarize himself with it first." Gu Jiahui seemed to be in a hurry and said to Chen Shufen.
"That's the best, just you can pass on some more experience to Lang Lang, so that he can get familiar with the recording of songs as soon as possible, it is best to finish recording quickly, of course, quality is the most important, otherwise it would rather take more time." Chen Shufen still wants to take advantage of Chen Lang's championship to launch a record, but she also knows the importance of the first record for singers, and it is best to take both into account.
"Teacher Gu, Pepe came with me today, can you let her watch from the side and promise not to disturb the recording?" Chen Lang looked at Gu Jiahui and said.
"Well, okay. But don't bother us. Gu Jiahui looked at Chen Lang's somewhat nervous appearance, and said after thinking for a while.
After Chen Lang got Gu Jiahui's reply, he happily ran out of the room and told Tang Xiaomei, and then the two followed Gu Jiahui towards the recording studio.
"Although Huaxing's other conditions are average, this recording equipment is top-notch, and it can be said to be the best recording equipment in Hong Kong." Gu Jiahui fondly stroked the equipment in front of him.
Chen Lang is also very curious about the current recordings, the music albums of his previous life have long been turned into CDs, and these vinyl records have long been out of circulation in the market, which is very rare. In the past life, if you wanted to see vinyl records, I am afraid that they were some personal collections, or very few companies that still produce vinyl records.
Gu Jiahui is extremely familiar with the equipment for recording vinyl records, and gave Chen Lang a detailed introduction, but Chen Lang listened to it in a fog, and he didn't know much about the sound groove, grooves, and two-channel audio tracks, so he could only nod vaguely, and he didn't know how to pretend to understand, but fortunately, after Gu Jiahui introduced it, he didn't say anything and began to let Chen Lang try to sing "Move".
Chen Lang remembers seeing some TV recording scenes in his previous life, where the singer was alone in a closed room, singing to the rhythm with headphones, and the recording engineer separated by glass on the outside pushed the button for a while, and pushed the button back for a while.
But now it's a vinyl record recording, and there is not even glass, which makes Chen Lang worry about whether there will be noise, but thinking about it, there is still post-production, and the noise will definitely be eliminated.
Chen Lang smiled at Tang Xiaomei, who was sitting quietly on the side, and then gave a thumbs up to Gu Jiahui to indicate that he was ready, and Gu Jiahui also gave a thumbs up to indicate that he could start recording.
Chen Lang put on the headphones and the world fell silent all of a sudden, and the strong rhythm of "Move" came from the headphones, "the drums rumbled and the applause thundered......"
"Stop, the rhythm is not accurate, sing it again......" Chen Lang just opened his mouth, and before he finished singing the first sentence, Gu Jiahui shouted to stop.
Chen Lang had no choice but to stop, ready to sing again, the music in the headphones sounded again, this time Chen Lang was very careful to find the rhythm of the song, "the drum rumbled and the applause thundered......"
"Stop, this time the rhythm is found, but I paid too much attention to finding the rhythm, the voice was deformed, and I opened my voice before I was ready, and I started again." Chen Lang was stopped this time before he finished singing the first sentence, and when he heard Gu Jiahui's words, he knew that he was paying too much attention to the rhythm just now, and his voice was not opened, so he had to hang his throat a few times and do it again.
The third time, Chen Lang closed his eyes and listened to the rhythm of the music, "the drums rumbled and the applause thundered......"
"Stop, it's still a matter of voice, at the beginning of this song, your voice seems too abrupt, and it hasn't reached the ** part of the song yet, don't be so high-pitched, you have to collect some, press some, and slowly build momentum until the ** erupts, understand?" It was stopped before the first line was sung.
Chen Lang stopped singing a little speechlessly, he didn't expect that just recording a fast song with a rhythm is not very complicated, and it is not so difficult to have a very high skill, how many times do you have to record a difficult song to achieve the desired effect.
At the same time, Chen Lang also felt that it was best to have an audience present to record such a strong dance and fast song, and the fiery atmosphere around it would help the singer better integrate into the rhythm and feeling of the song.
In the following time, Gu Jiahui has been correcting how Chen Lang's first sentence of his mouth opened his voice appropriately, and he was able to enter the state at the first moment of speaking, and even brought the audience into his song at once.
Chen Lang felt that it was so difficult, and Gu Jiahui also said that it takes countless experiences and countless repetitions, until you find that feeling, then you can enter this state as you like, and recording a song will become very simple.
When Chen Lang heard Gu Jiahui's statement, it seemed that it was like the state of "unity of heaven and man" in fantasy novels, which should be a state that was difficult to enter.