It was close to noon, and all the sound balance of the DW drum kit was finally done. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From about 8:30 a.m., a full three hours have passed. According to Ye Zi's idea, everyone will eat and rest now, and then start the official recording at about one o'clock in the afternoon, but Yang Zhengming is playing hard, and he refuses to stop now.

After Yang Zhengming's careful debugging, this set of drums is now exuding a charming brilliance, Yang Zhengming is on the rise, how to be willing to rest!

Don't want to stop?

Well, then...... Go ahead.

Ye Zi arranged for Huang Zhijian and them to go up to eat and rest, and he himself stayed in the recording studio with Yang Zhengming, preparing to record the drum part of the song "You at the Same Table". Yang Zhengming's state was stimulated by the excellent timbre of the DW drum kit and the handy percussion feedback, and he remained in the best condition for several hours in a row. However, Ye Zi knew very well in his heart that after more than an hour at most, Yang Zhengming's current peak state would definitely come down. This is determined by the characteristics of a musician like a drummer, who does not easily get tired when he is in high spirits, but under the heavy physical exertion, no matter how strong the drummer is, he cannot support it for too long.

This is also the reason why Ye Zi wanted him to take a break just now. However, since Yang Zhengming refused to stop, Ye Zi could only strike while the iron was hot.

Since the morning, Yang Zhengming has been playing for more than three hours in a row, and a concert may not be as tiring as he was in the morning. So while Yang Zhengming's state was still at his peak, Ye Zi quickly started recording.

Yang Zhengming, who is at his peak, has the help of his DW drums, and he almost closed his eyes to play the part of the song "You at the Same Table" that belongs to the drums. He even asked Ye Zi to turn off the click (metronome) used to calibrate the rhythm after giving the benchmark, thinking that its rattling sound would interfere with his mood.

Just go once!

Perfect performance, no detail needs to be reinvoiced at all.

And after Ye Zi turned on the metronome again, Yang Zhengming just played the click of the drum and metronome--

Fit!

Ye Zi only shook his head in appreciation, and his work became extremely simple.

Step 1: Press the red RECORD button to start recording.

Step 2: Press the red record button again to stop recording.

It's that simple!

During this period, Ye Zi didn't even need to adjust any of the other buttons and faders, anyone could do the job, whether it was a recording master like Lu Zheng or Aunt Zhang who worked as a maid in the villa, the recorded results were exactly the same.

It was also Ye Zi's luck to be able to meet such an excellent musician, especially when recording drums. Ye Zi was very happy, fortunately he didn't stop to rest just now.

Fortunately, what else could Ye Zi say and what could he ask for!

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When Huang Zhijian and the others came down from lunch, the drums had all been recorded, and Ye Zi was enjoying the drums that had just been recorded.

I haven't done any post-processing yet, so I'm ...... Admire?

That's right, it's appreciation.

Even though there has been no formal post-processing, Ye Zi has just done some high-cut and low-cut on the recording microphone, and hung a few threshold effects to prevent more crosstalk between the microphones, and now the drum sound from the monitor speaker has completely shown the unique style of DW. The sound drum is somber and elastic, and there is a little subtlety in the fullness, which is exactly in line with the kind of timbre that is not too much needed for "You at the Table". If you listen closely, there seems to be a faint vibration of the air under the bass blow, gently rippling like ripples in the water, as if scratching the ears of the listeners.

That's comfortable...... Then don't mention it!

When the other instruments are recorded and mixed together, the air doesn't sound audible, but it does give a sense of something.

This is the sense of air that is often said in hifi fever music!

Yang Zhengming listened on the sofa with his eyes closed, his face full of intoxication and satisfaction; Ye Zi sat closely, and the volume of the monitor speakers was also fully turned on, he liked to let the bass thumper sound of the drum knock on his heart, feeling the shock feeling with a little numbness; Huang Zhijian: When they came in, they all stood there, motionless and listened to the solo of what seemed to be a very monotonous drum in the monitors.

Knock, knock......

Everyone was drunk!

If you want to record an airy drum, you can only record it with the best drum kit in the right environment and using reasonable recording methods, and you can't do it without any of them. However, the natural and comfortable air feeling that Ye Zi has only seen in his life when he hears it in the monitor speakers without any traces of deliberate artificiality is extremely extraordinary. What kind of level of his recording skills has reached Ye Zi knows very well in his heart, such a quality has exceeded his recording level, and the drum recording room is just a normal drum room, so it goes without saying what kind of reason finally led to the emergence of such an excellent recording.

The DW drum set is truly worthy of being the king of the drums!

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After the drum is recorded, the recording of other instruments is quite quick. Of course, this is compared to the recording of the drum in the morning, not to the recording of the singing. Classical music such as symphonies and concertos are basically recorded all at once, but in the process of recording popular songs, the recording of instruments is only necessary to go through the process of recording ...... It's hard, unless it's a fairly simple kind.

The band performance in "You at the Same Table" is not very difficult, but Ye Zi's requirements are very high, and his ears are so sensitive that he can't hear the slightest mistake immediately, so these guys ...... But it's going to be a hardship. Even the simplest acoustic guitar decomposition chords were repeated two or three times because Zou Cheng did not play evenly enough in some places, which also made Huang Zhijian, who recorded the interlude solo later, cheer up 120,000 points, and finally was not caught by Ye Zi.

Ye Zi still records in the normal order, from low to high, from basic instruments to color instruments, in the "staircase-climbing" way. It's like building a house, laying the foundation first, that is, the drum and bass and other instruments that lay the foundation; Reconstruct the beams and walls of the house, that is, the keyboard, rhythm guitar, string group, these instruments that support the skeleton of the arrangement; Finally, there is the exterior decoration of the house, which is the lead electric guitar, blues harmonica, violin, saxophone and other colorful instruments with their own characteristics.

Not to mention, Huang Zhijian's blues harmonica is very good, even beyond Ye Zi's imagination, it can be called a big level. Ye Zi felt a little that Huang Zhijian's main electric guitar performance level was not as good as his level of playing the blues harmonica, but unfortunately there was no room for the lead guitar in this song except for interlude, and Ye Zi couldn't be completely sure of this. However, Huang Zhijian's blues harmonica is of a very high level, and there is no problem with this.

Ye Zi was very satisfied with this.

By the time of dinner, all the other instruments—drums, bass, two steel-string folk acoustic guitars, a blues harmonica, and a few synthesizer base strings—had been recorded. Huang Zhijian and "Little Bell" were a little bored, they didn't have more opportunities to play today, and their main electric guitar and keyboard didn't use it at all.

However, "You at the Table" is a folk song, and normally they don't use their best instrument, so it's not right to use it. (PS: In folk songs, acoustic guitar, drums, and bass are the three main instruments, violin, blues harmonica, and saxophone can be used often as color instruments, but distorted electric guitars are rarely used.) The use of synthesizers is also used to base the most, which is determined by the characteristics of genre songs. ）

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At 7 o'clock in the evening, Miao Junkai arrived at the recording studio with a nine-member string group consisting of a double bass, a cello, two violas, and five violins.

To Ye Zi's surprise, Tai Wenhui also followed Miao Junkai and them into the recording control room. When I called yesterday, I also said that I would not be able to come back until Wednesday, which is ...... Xiangjiang has everything arranged?

Of course, Wenhui would not interfere with Ye Zi's recording process at will, she sat on the sofa in the back, watched Ye Zi record strings, and talked softly with Huang Zhijian and them from time to time.

For this "Magnolia Band", Tantai Wenhui still appreciates it and intends to sign them. It's just that Huang Zhijian and the others are all idle and unwilling to be restrained, so they politely declined the invitation to sign a contract issued by Wenhui a while ago.

But...... People's minds change, Wenhui thinks.

The recording of the string ensemble was really fast.

Miao Junkai and the group of musicians he brought are all from the string part of the Shencheng Symphony Orchestra, and they can definitely be named as performers, and they are used to playing those difficult and complex classical music, and the string part of the pop songs really has no difficulty for them.

The difficulty of recording is here in Ye Zi.

The recording of strings uses two ceiling-type large diaphragm condenser microphones, and Ye Zi has to do a series of work such as the placement, position adjustment, and parameter setting of these two microphones, which is a bit like the situation of recording drums in the morning. Of course, it's not that complicated.

After all these things were done, the 9 musicians tried to play it again, and Ye Zi made further adjustments on the mixer according to the situation of the recording, and then officially recorded.

All at once.

I really didn't say this!

The professional performers who applied for the post played such things, and it was really a small cast.

And for these performers, in less than an hour, playing two or three pieces of music, each person can get at least 500 yuan, which is of course absolutely affordable. (To be continued.) )