Chapter 191: Surround sound
"Everybody's all looking at us, everybody."
One afternoon in early September, Song Ya put her arms around Fergie and lazily leaned against the corner of the stadiumside stands, cheering on Tony's rugby debut.
The two deliberately chose a seat away from the crowd, but the eyes of all the students present unconsciously drifted to this side, even the players who were warming up.
"That's the trouble of celebrities." Song Ya mustered up the courage to come over and ask for the signatures of the classmates who signed them, and seeing that more people were about to move, he hurriedly threw a look at the old Mike wearing sunglasses behind him.
"I'm sorry, but that's the end of it, kids." Old Mike blocked the crowd for him, "Go back and sit down!" β
"I don't understand, why stay in this middle-class school, we can transfer to a better middle school." Fergie said, chewing gum.
"Hah!" Song Ya laughed briefly, "Looking down on the middle class so quickly? Your song hasn't been released yet, so are you sure you can become a singer? β
"Of course, you wrote the single." Fergie leaned into his arms flatteringly, "It's going to be popular, I can feel it." β
"Then you'll have to pay more attention to your recording." Song Ya teased her blonde hair, lowered her head and pouted her red lips, and the two kissed passionately as if no one was around.
After breaking up with Mira, Song Ya completely let go of herself, and Phigi is also a passionate and bold character, and the two of them are not very shy about the outside world, and they completely live a flamboyant youth life.
Old Mike shook his head, sat back down behind them, and pulled a newspaper from his bosom and flipped through the playing time.
"Huh? What are you listening to? As the two moved, the headphones hanging from Fergi's ears fell off, and the sound of music came out.
βThe Promise Of A New Dayγβ Phigi replied, shoving one of the earphones into Songya's ear.
"Paula Abadu's song?" Song Ya didn't care, it felt a little wrong when she listened to it, the music in the headphones seemed to be more advanced than the same period of this era, with stronger penetration, and the effect of stereo surround was particularly good, "How did you make this sound quality?" He felt that the sound quality was closer to those apocalyptic songs that he had gotten, and the technology was undoubtedly closer to the future.
And the foreshadowing of the future is the opportunity to make money!
Becky shook her head, "This song is at number two on the Billboard singles chart." β
Song Ya picked up her phone and called Hayden, "Help me find out what new audio technology Paula Abbadou uses in the new single on the list." β
"Hey, my good brother......" Tony, who was on the phone with Hayden, gasped and ran closer, "Are you watching me play?" He's excited to be back on the rugby pitch, and he's still physically fit enough to play in a middle-class high school with little rugby tradition, "It's always like you're busy, you're busy." β
"The world is constantly moving fast, Tony, and I'm not careful, I'm going to fall behind the times." Song Ya replied, packed up with Fried, and left with Tony and Mike Sr.
"It's called 3D surround sound, right? What are the leading companies in this field today? Okay, I'll wait for your call. β
On the second day, "On behalf of NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences), I would like to present APLUS with a membership of the Association in recognition of his outstanding musical work and outstanding achievements in recording engineering......"
Song Yadu's almost forgotten NARAS membership was finally done, and the self-proclaimed upper-class Ms. Shirley Fleming gave a lot of help, becoming a member of this family is equivalent to having the qualification to vote for the Grammy Awards, although it is only one of more than 10,000 members, his age of seventeen is still amazing.
As usual, a small ceremony was held in the school auditorium, and Song Ya took the documents from the hands of someone from the academy, and then walked to the lecture stage and gave a large thank you.
"Congratulations." At the end of the ceremony, Hayden stepped forward and smiled.
"Did you find out what I wanted you to look for?" Song Ya doesn't care about this kind of ritual anymore, he cares more about business.
"Now there are many such companies, in addition to those top multinational companies, there are Dolby Laboratories, DTS, innovative technology, E-MU and so on." Hayden reported a lot of company names, "but none of them went public, but the market ...... growing quickly."
"It's an opportunity, right? When I heard Paula Abadu's song, I felt that this was the way of the future...... Which company's technology did she use? β
βE-MUγβ
"Okay, let's go back and have a meeting."
Hurrying back to A+, he gathered technicians such as DeLay, Andrew, and Henry to work on the new technology.
After receiving the unanimous approval, he immediately arranged for Delay to explore investment possibilities with various companies.
"Dolby Laboratories and E-MU have no intention of accepting investors, DTS is still a small garage company, the two founders have developed a few related patents, Innovative Technology is a Singaporean company, the owner is Chinese, and the Voice Blaster card they use on PCs has been selling well recently, but they already have plans to go public, on the NASDAQ." After contacting all parties, DeLai came back and reported, "So only DTS and innovative technology are likely to accept new investors." β
"The Chinese hand it over to me, you go and contact DTS!" Song Ya made the decision and personally contacted the two Chinese bosses of the innovative technology company.
A few sentences in Chinese were almost, but soon found that the other party was now about to go public, and it was impossible to accept new investors, but chatted about Song Ya earning a sum of money for himself, and the other party intended to find someone to endorse their voice card, and met the new star in the music world, and APLUS, who has Chinese ancestry, is the right eye.
"Mr. Hu, it's okay to endorse, or I'll let my agent talk to you?" Song Yale chatted on the phone, "I can charge you a friendship price, you must notify me before you go public, I will go to the open market to support it?" Haha, okay, that's it, goodbye. β
There is good news from Dilay's side, DTS is worried about financial problems, but the two founders hold on to the patent and refuse to let go, and are only willing to accept venture capital.
"Venture capital is venture capital, let's do it!" Song Ya excitedly said into the microphone: "As long as I have 3D surround sound related patents, I am willing to enter, and I will also add this technology to the recording of singles in the future!" β
"Okay, no problem." DeLay quickly negotiated with the other side that A+ Audio would provide an angel investment of $250,000 and a series of pre-operation assistance to DTS in exchange for 20% of DTS's shares.
Over there, Hayden also negotiated an endorsement contract with the people of the Mi Guo branch of the innovative technology company, 750,000 dollars, in addition to a TV commercial, Song Ya's personal image will also appear on the packaging box of their company's sound card products.
He was busy on his side, but he didn't expect that something happened to Paula Abbadu, who provided the 'inspiration', and one of her backup singers sued her in England. The backing singer claimed that a single on Paula Abadu's new album was actually sung by himself, not Paula Abadou herself.
The substitute singing incident fermented rapidly, and even DIVA, who is in the limelight, is very difficult to pass with this kind of scandal.
"Do you think it's possible? Substitute singing, that's ridiculous, isn't it? Song Ya asked Hayden.
"Because of the style, Paula Abadoo has to sing and dance vigorously when performing live, so she often opens the microphone ajar or plays the accompaniment to lip-sync, but that's nothing, everyone knows that it is impossible to maintain a stable voice when dancing so intensely, and she is very tolerant of this kind of dance artist."
Hayden replied, "But the ghost? This accusation is much worse than live lip-syncing, directly replacing oneself with other people's voices during music recording, not long ago the Milli Vanilli group was revealed to be looking for someone to sing for them, and the Grammys were directly taken back, and the members of the group were directly unable to mix. β
"Maybe someone is trying to frame her? Inspired by the Milli Vanilli Sing-A-O event? Yeremov questioned.
Hayden shrugged, "Then I don't know, but what I do know is that there will be another bloody storm in the music industry next......"