Chapter 786: Sister Mei's "Moonlight"
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Compared with "Your Eyes" and "Love You a Thousand Times in My Life", the recording time of "Moonlight" is much longer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the beginning, Ye Zi did not put forward harsh requirements for Sister Mei's singing, nor did he think about refining this song, after the carefully recorded "Woman Flower" half a year ago, the other songs in the album do not need to be more deliberately overly sculpted. As long as Sister Mei's singing state and emotional feelings are completely in place, it is not a problem for Ye Zi to let her pass it all over again, just like when she recorded the previous two songs.
In fact, after singing it for the first time, Ye Zi already felt very satisfied. This moving "love song" sung to my mother, under the interpretation of Sister Mei's mellow and warm voice, the vulgar adjective "love is sincere" is just right here. Of course, Ye Zi can't beat such an excellent singing back, there is no need for that at all.
Ye Zi is satisfied, but Sister Mei herself is not very satisfied, she thinks she can sing better. In particular, this song is the accompaniment of a piano, which can best show a singer's singing skills and ability to interpret songs, as a singer, Sister Mei is of course very aware of this, so she hopes that the singing of this song can be better.
Sister Mei said so, can Ye Zi still stop her?
Let's do it all over again.
However, Ye Zi kept an eye on it, and he asked Ah Kun to keep Sister Mei's first singing first, and opened a spare track for Sister Mei to continue singing. Anyway, this song only has piano, solo, and backing vocals, and the track margin is sufficient, and Sister Mei can sing it to meet her requirements no matter how she wants.
After the second time, Sister Mei was still not satisfied, and Ye Zi was not very satisfied. This time Sister Mei sang too hard, deliberately pursuing that feeling of devotion, this kind of singing method is more suitable for concerts, but if it is used for recording, it is not as natural as the first time.
After listening to the playback, Sister Mei and Ye Zi denied the singing at the same time.
Well, then...... Let's do it a third time.
For the third time, Sister Mei's performance in the first half was unexpectedly good. Compared with the first singing, Sister Mei's singing voice is more restrained and deep in the natural outpouring, and the strong emotions are completely integrated into her singing, and an emotion called "gratitude" arises spontaneously in the hearts of all listeners.
Ye Zi was already fascinated by it.
If Sister Mei's singing can be maintained forever, this will be a rare boutique singing, which can completely replace the first time.
It's a pity that Sister Mei had a little problem in the singing of the chorus. Maybe she was too involved in singing, and Sister Mei relaxed a little bit in terms of voice control, which caused her to sing the high note of "moonlight" in the sentence "You are praying for my happiness every night like moonlight", and once again there was a small problem that the voice was hard, flattened, and exploded in the past, and Ye Zi was "exploded" from the artistic conception of the previous singing. A similar situation also appeared in several other high-pitched places, however, Sister Mei still did a very good job in the interpretation of the song, even if there were a few dissonant timbres that suddenly changed, Ye Zi had to admit that this was still an extremely good singing.
After the singing this time, Sister Mei felt satisfied.
But Ye Zi had a little headache.
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Sister Mei's first singing is very complete, unless she is nitpicking, or she doesn't like Sister Mei's timbre, no one can find any fault with Sister Mei's voice. It's just that compared with the third singing, it is slightly weaker in terms of the interpretation of the song.
And Sister Mei's third singing is extremely good in terms of song processing, anyone will be moved by Sister Mei's singing, and will be deeply immersed in Sister Mei's singing and unable to extricate themselves. Without those dramatic timbre changes in the treble parts, it's a perfect singing.
In the face of such two singing, it will be difficult for any producer to choose.
If you choose to sing it for the first time, Ye Zi will feel a little unwilling, obviously there is a better and more expressive version in his hand, why not use it? But choose to sing it for the third time, those damn treble timbre changes are like briquettes on the snow, so dazzling, this feeling of white and slightly flawed makes Ye Zi feel uncomfortable to listen to.
I thought about it alone for a long time, and I discussed it for a long time with Sister Mei and Ah Kun while listening to the playback, and at the same time consulted Steve. Davidson's opinion, gritting his teeth, Ye Zi determined that the third time he was selected. Even though the first singing is very complete, the third singing still wins with absolutely correct interpretation.
That's good when you're chosen, right?
Hehe, where is it so easy.
If it is changed to usual, or if it is not supervised by Sister Mei, Ye Zi may choose to sing it for the third time without correction, because such a small problem is not easy for fans to notice, and Sister Mei has always sung like this in the past.
But this time, no.
All the media and critics are waiting for Sister Mei's comeback album, and when the time comes, they will definitely put every song on this album under a magnifying glass to observe carefully, including songwriting, singing, recording and production, all aspects will be commented on by them one by one, and singing is of course the top priority. Especially for this album, Ye Zilai is the producer, and the Xiangjiang media and critics who have always had a stupid attitude towards Ye Zi will definitely be more harsh on this album, and they can pick out the bones in the eggs, not to mention such an obvious problem in the eyes of experts.
If Ye Zi didn't let Sister Mei change the kind of treble she used to have, then that's fine, after so many years, what else is there to say? It's just that from the beginning of "Woman Flower" to the first two songs recorded today, Sister Mei's high notes have changed from the cold and hard in the past, and have become much softer and warmer. This would have been a good thing, and it would have been praised by professional critics, but if such a few relapsed high notes suddenly popped out in "Moonlight", you can imagine how this would be criticized by those critics.
At that time, Sister Mei and Ye Zi couldn't hide.
Besides, since it has been decided to sing it for the third time, Ye Zi himself hopes to make this song, which has been perfected, truly perfect.
Since this is the case, it is impossible to say, Ye Zi is going to switch to the "tyrant" mode again.
So, Sister Mei suffered.
Piggybacking, Ah Kun also suffered.
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Sister Mei's suffering is inevitable, Ye Zi needs her to sing those high-pitched places again and again, not only the voice must be warm and soft, and the song processing must be completely in place to pass the test, but also the timbre and mood before and after must be coherent and consistent, so that people can't hear any difference.
There are five or six places in the whole song that need to be corrected for treble, and each of them must fully meet Ye Zi's requirements, Ye Zi's ears are extremely sensitive, and any slightest mistake will be picked out by him one by one and restarted.
This time, Sister Mei was really "rectified" by Ye Zi to die and come back to life, and she was sinned by old age.
However, Sister Mei was really tough, she didn't say anything, and did what Ye Zi asked her to do over and over again, until all the timbre changes were corrected.
This is really unconvincing!
However, after such a meticulous and rigorous correction, Sister Mei's singing voice of the whole song has been completely unified, and there is no longer that feeling of white and slightly flawed. On the basis of maintaining the excellent interpretation of the song, this song is already a truly perfect work.
It's all worth it!
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Sound engineer Ah Kun was slightly taken by Ye Zi.
If you want to correct these changes in treble timbre, the only method that Ye Zi can choose is "jump recording". In the future, with the assistance of computer recording software, this matter is not difficult. As long as you set the start and end of the places that need to be corrected, and let the singer sing along with his own recording, the software will automatically record the words that need to be corrected when you arrive at the place. Even if you only need to correct a word and a sound, even if you need to repeat the recording thousands of times, the software can be accurate.
But now there are no such conditions, so what can be done?
Then you can only rely on the sound recordist's hearing and hand speed.
The singer also sings along with his own recording, and when he arrives at the place where he needs to record, the recording engineer quickly presses the recording button, and when he gets to the place where he needs to come out, he needs the recording engineer to press the recording button again, which is called "skipping recording".
Every recording engineer can do it by jumping to a complete sentence, but it is not an easy thing to jump two or three words like today.
The sound recordist is not familiar with the song, and this cannot be done.
The sound recordist's hand speed is not fast enough to do this.
And such a fast jump recording also takes into account the connection of the singer's singing port, and if it can't be connected, it still won't work, which needs to be recorded repeatedly. When doing this kind of rapid jump recording, the sound recordist's attention must always be high-tensioned, and of course it will be a crime after a long time. Ye Zi himself has tried such a quick jump recording, and even with his strong physique and spirit, he doesn't want to speak after recording.
After tossing for almost two hours, with the cooperation of Ye Zi, Sister Mei and Ah Kun, all the treble timbre changes in this "Moonlight" have been corrected, and a perfect work is finally presented.
After listening to the playback, Ye Zi was proud, but as soon as Sister Mei came out of the studio, she screamed and pounced on Ye Zi, her appearance of teeth and claws was a realistic version of Mei Chaofeng. It was obvious that Sister Mei had come to collect the interest she had just been tortured for, and Ye Zi was so frightened that she immediately crawled around and fled.
After escaping to the outside world, Ye Zigang felt a little safer, and when he looked up, Ah Kun had already shook his hands and sneered in front of him. (To be continued.) )