Originally planned to record for a week, Ye Zi only took five days to complete the recording of all the songs. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info isn't the fastest speed, but when you look at it in relation to the quality of the recording, it's pretty fast. If you take into account the fact that Brother Xue You's change in singing style is counted, the recording of this album can be called rapid.

Lin Wenjie has been following the recording process of this album from beginning to end, and he is also reflecting.

Preparing an album in advance, and then finding a suitable time for the singer to complete the recording of all the songs in one place, seems to be different from the free-style, decentralized recording method that the company has implemented for big-name singers in the past. Not to mention anything else, at least in terms of manpower, material and financial resources, such a centralized recording method is more economical, and the planning and arrangement are easier to achieve. This attempt was very successful, so in the future, the company can have two ways to give the big names the freedom to choose.

This is also a pretty good thing.

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Lin Wenjie is thinking about the big things in the company's production plan, and Brother Xiaobao can't think about it so much, he is now waiting to complete the post-production of these songs with Ye Zi. For an executive producer, this is the final step in the process of putting his philosophy into making this album a thorough one. During the entire recording process of the album, Ye Zi had recorded the singing of all the songs according to his own ideas in the first five days, and before that, Brother Xiaobao had recorded the accompaniment in advance according to Ye Zi's ideas, which was completely consistent with the idea of singing, so the next step will finally determine the quality height that this album can achieve.

Very important!

On the morning of August 23, Ye Zi began to produce eleven songs in the later stage, and Xiao Baoge was still his deputy.

According to convention, post-production must be one by one, but Ye Zi's actions made Xiao Baoge a little incomprehensible. Ye Zi was not too troublesome, he hadn't done any work yet, he first tuned out each track of all the eleven songs one by one, listened to them all, and made a complete record at the same time. This one thing alone took Ye Zi most of the day's time, starting from 9 o'clock in the morning to nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Listening to the monotonous sound that had not yet been processed from one track to another, Brother Xiao Bao was a little drowsy, and he didn't understand Ye Zi's actions.

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"Brother Xiaobao, don't think this process is boring, in fact, it will bring a lot of benefits to post-production." While dealing with the frequency response and sound contours of the kick drum, Ye Zi explained in response to Brother Xiaobao's questions: "When I took the first post-production course, my teacher set a rule for me that I must know the characteristics of each track in any post-production period. All I did was expand the teacher's request and put it into the scope of the whole album. ”

"It's a tedious process, but now that I'm completely familiar with every track of each song, I can think about it all when I'm post-producing each song."

"Brother Xiaobao, come and listen to this kick drum."

Ye Zi glanced at Brother Xiaobao, and the sound of the bottom drum clattering came out.

"You're from a band, what do you think would happen if you put this kick drum sound in 'Kiss Goodbye'?"

Brother Xiao Bao listened carefully to the sound of the kick drum, and then opened all the tracks at the same time to listen to the overall effect, and then hesitated and said, "I think...... It seems to be a little thinner in "Kiss Goodbye", and if I were to deal with it, I would have thickened the bottom profile of the kick drum a little bit to make it stand more firmly underneath. ”

"Brother Xiaobao, this is your typical treatment, the voice is steady and elastic, "Love You More Every Day" is such a kick drum, right?" Ye Zi nodded: "But Brother Xiaobao, this time I will still insist on using the same method as just now to deal with the kick drum, including some instrument timbre processing and position processing that you will definitely find a little inappropriate." I won't talk about the reason for this, but when all the songs are finished in post-production, you can listen to them again, and I'm sure you'll find something. ”

"Oh? Is it? Brother Xiaobao had actually been muttering in his heart for a long time, but since Ye Zi had already said so, he could only hold down the doubts in his heart for the time being and continue to wait.

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August 24, around 10 p.m.

"Alright, it's finally done!"

Ye Zi gently pressed the play button on the recording controller, stretched his waist for a long time, and shouted softly.

Post-production is also a job that is best done in one go, otherwise it will be embarrassing to overthrow yourself after a few days. Such a reversal may make post-production better, but it also has the potential to turn an otherwise excellent post-production into a mess. If it's the late stage of making the whole album, it's better to fight continuously and take it down in one go. So in the past two days, except for this morning's morning exercise, Ye Zi has never left the recording studio at all, and has almost never slept to complete the post-production of all eleven songs.

"Okay? Then you take a break and I'll listen. Brother Xiaobao had been waiting for a long time, and hurriedly said.

In the afternoon, Brother Xiaobao finally couldn't stay up, so he went to the company dormitory and slept well, and didn't come back again until more than 8 o'clock in the evening. At this moment, he was in good spirits.

In the past two days, listening, busy, and thinking all the time, Brother Xiaobao has actually roughly understood Ye Zi's intention to do this, but he still has to confirm it.

"Brother Xiaobao, you listen in this order." Ye Zi handed over a piece of paper, and the person also stood up.

"Is this order? Okay, you rest first. Brother Xiaobao solemnly took it, and then sat down on the recording chair that Ye Zi had just gotten up on, and pressed the play button.

The songs were played one after another, and Brother Xue You, as if he was standing in front of Brother Xiaobao, sometimes warm, sometimes affectionate, sometimes sunny, and sometimes sad singing moving songs. From the moment the first note sounded, Xiao Baoge was completely immersed in the sea of music woven by eleven songs.

Miraculously, Brother Xiao Bao's original thought that the slightly thinner kick drum didn't have that feeling at all, and all the timbre and processing that he thought were a little problematic and a little inappropriate at the time now sounded so appropriate, so accurate, and so irrevocable.

"Brother Xiaobao, I'm sure you must have heard it." After listening to four or five songs, Ye Zi sat down next to Brother Xiaobao and said softly: "The reason why I handled it like that was for the overall consideration of the whole album, and treated each song as a part of a complete album, so as to achieve organic union." On this basis, the whole of each song is relied on the overall characteristics of the album to complete the entire production of each song. ”

"In this way, there will be no incongruity in all the songs when listened to individually, and the whole album can still be kneaded into a complete whole. Brother Xiaobao, I actually borrowed a lot of your handling when supervising songs, I just magnified what you did in one song to the whole album. ”

"The producer in my mind is to think about serving the whole album from the very beginning, including the singing of every song, the choice of every timbre, the processing of each instrument, every post-production, etc., all of which must have a unified premise, that is, the overall needs of the album. Only by starting from the very beginning, can we achieve the unity of each song and the unity and coordination of the whole album, and jointly complete the production of a whole album. ”

"Brother Xiaobao, this is my producer's concept."

Brother Xiao Bao nodded lightly, he knew that what Ye Zi said was not wrong at all, his own production style was exactly like this, and he considered the whole from the beginning of every detail. But he only did this on the producer of each song, and Ye Zi has now done this on the entire album.

It's not a question of who is better, it's a difference in philosophy.

"Xiao Yezi, you can tell me more about it, I'm very interested in the concept you said."

Brother Xiaobao said seriously. (To be continued.) )