Yan Qingmiaomiao's duo, who have travel plans for two consecutive days, did not ride an electric car on Thursday.

The reason is very simple, the recording studio called Shining Star Recording Studio set by Miao Miao is located in Caochangdi Art Village near the North Fifth Ring Road of the imperial capital, about fifteen kilometers away from Shichahai.

Miao Miao made an appointment for a special car in advance, and the two of them arrived at the Shining Star Studio at nine o'clock in the morning.

The "Talent Co., Ltd.", which came out of nowhere, was added to today's recording plan, and the standard of this song is several levels higher than the demo of "Liqiu", and the time of the day is relatively tight.

In his previous life, Yan Qing's attitude towards music production was excellence, and he couldn't even remember how many times he scolded and cried when he was young.

After a few words of greeting with Deng Wenbin, the manager of Shining Star Recording Studio, Yan Qing proposed to Deng Wenbin, the manager, to start the preparatory work immediately.

Yan Qing had made a detailed plan before he came, and from Miao Miao's report, he learned that Yan Qing had entered the recording studio and produced and released records before, so he was not worried that his recording skills would arouse suspicion.

Yan Qing planned to come over in the morning to do a good job in the arrangement of the song "Liqiu", and let Miao Miao first follow the accompaniment to do a few more rounds of audition singing, and during this time he could continue to do the arrangement of "Talent Co., Ltd."

If everything is going well, this smooth means that if this parallel time and space recording and production tool has not changed greatly due to the butterfly effect, he should be able to enter the studio in the morning to record the vocal harmony part of the two songs.

In the afternoon, according to the plan, I first recorded the vocal dry sound sub-track of "Talent Co., Ltd.", and then mixed the digital mastering audio with DSP digital effects.

The arrangement style of both songs is relatively simple, basically only folk guitar and some very simple harmonic soundtracks, Yan Qing already has the finished effect in his head, so he is confident that he can complete all the production work in one day.

Otherwise, according to his previous strict standards, it would take at least four days to produce a song, even if the cycle went smoothly.

Yan Qing was very straightforward and asked Deng Wenbin to pull out the list of equipment in the recording studio, so that he could choose the recording software and equipment such as music workstations (DAWs), Midi keyboards, recording microphones, monitoring headphones/singer monitoring headphones, DSP digital effects and other recording software and equipment for arranging and production.

When Deng Wenbin heard this, he was not ambiguous, and directly asked his assistant to go into the office and print out a list of the latest equipment.

After all, he has the goods in his hand and is not panicked, and Shining Star Studio is also recognized by the industry as the largest independent recording company in the imperial capital.

Deng Wenbin handed the list to Yan Qing, and said with a wink:

"You've come at the right time, coincidentally, I just updated a batch of equipment from Germany and Austria last month, and you're really well informed."

Yan Qing saw a list of "AMS-NEVE Genesys Black" digital mixing consoles, and this kind of equipment with a price of nearly 500,000 yuan in the previous life alone could be worth the entire investment of two small recording studios, and he was quite satisfied with the equipment level of this independent recording studio.

He nodded in response to Deng Wenbin, and quickly checked the equipment he wanted.

After Yan Qing checked the box, he handed the list back to Deng Wenbin.

"Mr. Deng, please arrange it as soon as possible, and find someone to take me to the control room of the recording studio to arrange the music first."

Deng Wenbin looked at Yan Qing's checked list:

Digital mixer: AMS-NEVE Genesys Black

Arranging software: Pro Tools Ultimate

Midi keyboard, pedals: Nektar Impact LX88+, NP2

Recording microphone: AKG C12VR

Monitor headphones: AKG K271 MK11

Singer monitor headphones: AKG K92

DSP Digital Effects: TC Electronic Mastering6000

"Good boy, old connoisseur, basically finished picking out my best equipment. originally thought that Yan Qing was just going to play cross-border tickets, but looking at this posture, he has not made many movies in recent years, but has put a lot of effort into music production. ”

After all, the last time the two sides cooperated was four years ago, Deng Wenbin thought so in his heart.

Deng Wenbin handed over the list checked by Yan Qing to his assistant, arranged for people to go to the studio to install the equipment that Yan Qing wanted, and took Yan Qing into the No. 1 recording studio with the largest flash star.

The most expensive piece of equipment in their studio, the 460,000 digital mixer, was installed in the recording control room of Studio 1.

Waiting for the twinkle star's arranger to open the digital mixer, activate the music workstation equipped with Pro Tools Ultimate, and replace the Midi keyboard and pedals assigned by Yan Qing, he also made an inviting gesture to Yan Qing in his hand.

"Mr. Yan, please."

Yan Qing was not stage frightened, he directly took the monitor headphones and sat down, and skillfully set the virtual instrument parameters required for the several accompaniment tracks he had already determined on the software.

Under the watchful eyes of a large group of studio professionals, Yan Qing directly began to operate the Midi keyboard and pedals, and input the dry sound of analog instruments into the music workstation one by one.

First of all, the simplest dry soundtracks: Shaker effect harmony, then lead instrument, A-type guitar, interlude solo instrument, violin, harmonic instrument, bass/drum kit/eraser, etc.

After putting on the monitoring headphones, Yan Qing didn't seem to be able to hear the noisy discussion behind him at all, but just listened to the effect of each dry sound sub-track one by one.

It took less than half an hour from the time he sat down to complete the sub-track merger, and the accompaniment of "Liqiu" except for the vocal harmony sub-track was finished.

Yan Qing confirmed with Deng Wenbin whether the main monitor in the recording control room could be used. After seeing Deng Wenbin nodding blankly, he simply played this accompaniment melody that lacked vocal harmony.

The melody slowly wanders from the expensive main monitors in the acoustically optimised recording control room. A very high degree of completion of the arrangement successfully turned the surrounding "stunned to look at the stunned" into "jaw-dropping when I saw the great god".

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"The arrangement is all in place at one time, and there is no need to adjust it at all, even if I memorize the whole arrangement in advance, can I do it without making any mistakes?"

"It's definitely monitoring-level ear power."

"Pro Tools only got a big update last month, and he played better than the trainer."

"Mr. Yan's proficiency in these devices is much higher than ours."

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The professional engineers of arrangement, recording, and mixing unconsciously upgraded their original title "Mr. Yan" to "Mr. Yan".

Yan Qing, who showed off his top arranging ability, successfully shocked the professionals of the Shining Star Recording Studio.

After listening to the accompaniment of Yan Qing's arrangement, Deng Wenbin, the manager who was originally very cooperative, became more attentive.

According to Yan Qing's instructions, he sent someone to copy this accompaniment to the recording control room of the No. 2 recording studio next to him, and arranged for the recording engineer to take Miao Miao, who was still a little confused, to the No. 2 recording studio, put on the singer's monitor headphones and began to practice the audition.

After seeing that Miao Miao had obediently gone to practice the audition, Yan Qing sat down again and spent another half an hour finishing the unused vocal harmony accompaniment of the song "Talent Co., Ltd."

After Deng Wenbin took the initiative to ask for help, Yan Qing agreed to let him help him in the prison shed. Yan Qing took the singer's monitoring headphones, and entered the studio in a dashing manner to start recording the vocals and tones of the two songs.

Because "Liqiu" is only a sample request, after the accompaniment master tape and demo are sent to Wang Yunxi, Wang Yunxi will definitely record the vocal harmony and mix it into the final version of the master audio, so Deng Wenbin pinched the controller with his right hand and pressed 3 buttons all the way down, and more than ten extremely short harmonic dry notes of "Liqiu" were all passed at one time.

When it was his turn to record "Talent Co., Ltd.", Yan Qing came up with strict standards.

Even if Deng Wenbin, a temporary supervisor outside the transparent glass of the recording studio, said that the vocal harmony effect of a certain section was good, once the feedback from the monitoring headphones did not reach the standard line set by Yan Qing himself, Yan Qing would frequently take off the headphones and signal Deng Wenbin to do it again.

Yan Qing and Deng Wenbin cooperated more and more tacitly, and successfully completed the dry recording of the vocal harmony of the two songs in advance before noon, and even freed up time for Yan Qing to mix the recorded vocal harmony dry sub-track with the previously made accompaniment track into the final version of the accompaniment.

After a simple working meal in the lounge of Shining Star, Yan Qing took a sip of warm water to moisten his throat, and re-entered the No. 1 recording studio to record the dry vocals of the song "Talent Co., Ltd."

Today, Yan Qing's voice is in good condition, and at his own insistence, Deng Wenbin patiently accompanied him to record it completely five times, picked out some details, and made up some parts that sounded problematic to his ears.

Back in the recording control room, Yan Qing changed into the main monitor headphones, operated the music workstation, and mixed the mastered audio of the final product of "Talent Co., Ltd." with the 300,000 "TC Electronic Mastering6000" DSP digital mixing effect.

When the main monitor played the whole song, Deng Wenbin was obviously a little excited:

"Teacher Yan, you must often come to guide our work in the future. Today, the god-eyed guys in our studio are more honest than the other. ”

"Mr. Deng, it's over, you're too exaggerated."

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After finishing the "Talent Co., Ltd.", which has the largest workload, Yan Qing went to the No. 2 recording studio with a relaxed face to bring Miao Miao back.

Cut to the accompaniment of "Liqiu" with added vocal harmony, Yan Qingbang Miao Miao, who was still a little nervous, put on singer monitoring headphones and sent her to the AKG C12VR microphone with more than 30,000 yuan in the recording studio.

After he gently told some small details, he turned around and walked out of the shed, standing outside the transparent glass window to personally help Miao Miao supervise the shed.

Miao Miao's singing level and adaptability to the top recording studio environment are a bit unexpected by Yan Qing, and in Yan Qing's ears, who has an absolute sense of tone, Miao Miao has the potential to become a studio singer with a good level.

Yan Qing only said it twice, it's good, it's good, let's do it again, the quality of Miao Miaolu's main melody dry tone track has reached the standard of Yan Qing's excellent sample.

(Here the author is saying that if a brother comes into the recording studio to record a song in the future, the recording engineer or the supervisor will say something similar to you, praise you and ask you to do it again.) The meaning of his words is basically equivalent to "What are you singing, give it to the master again." ”）

Miao Miao, who came out of Studio No. 1, obediently ran to Yan Qing's side, with a complicated look on her face that asked for praise but was not very bottomless.

Yan Qing told Miao Miao very seriously that he would write a song for her in the future, and let her record her own singles and even albums, Miao Miao happily raised her hand to hook and stamp with Yan Qing.

It can be seen that Miao Miao likes to sing.

Yan Qing diverged a playlist suitable for Miao Miao's voice in his head, while operating the music workstation and DSP digital mixing effect to mix up a high-completion demo.

Plug in the encrypted USB flash drive that Miao Miao brought from home, and copy the mastertape of "Liqiu" without "vocal harmony" accompaniment in the music workstation, the sample of "Liqiu" recorded by Miao Miao's first voice, and the finished master audio of "Talent Co., Ltd.", and completely deleted the original file on the workstation.

When the final settlement of the fee, Deng Wenbin, the manager of the Shining Star Recording Studio, who insisted on waiving the recording fee, always refused to give Miao Miao a quotation.

In the previous life, if a recording studio of this level like Shining Star Studio No. 1 did not include the hourly fee of the recording engineer, the studio hour fee was about 1,500 yuan an hour, and then counting the No. 2 studio used by Miao Miao, Yan Qing estimated that it would cost about 500 Chinese yuan an hour.

Under the guidance of Yan Qing, who was familiar with the market in her previous life, Miao Miao took out her mobile phone and forcibly paid 20,000 Chinese yuan to Shanxing through the Weiyan App.

In his previous life, the schedule of this level of recording studio was often very tight, so the price given by Yan Qing also made Deng Wenbin feel that Yan Qing was really knowledgeable.

Deng Wenbin even sent Yan Qing and Miao Miao all the way to the special car called by Miao Miao, and Yan Qing had to promise him that he would be the first choice when he needed it in the future.

Returning to the Yan family's compound, Yan Qing accompanied Miao Miao back to her office as soon as possible.

Miao Miao turned on the computer and directly sent the audio mastering resources of the two sections of Liqiu to Wang Yunxi's Chutian Music Company through encrypted transmission software.

Yan Qing looked at Miao Miao and stopped what he was doing, a little curious:

"Little Meow, why don't you send "Talent Co., Ltd." to Director Li and them?"

Miao Miao's wide-open eyes flashed with some sly, and she replied eloquently:

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"Don't worry, we haven't negotiated the price with Director Li to sign the authorization document.

Besides, if I want to send it first, I will send it to Director Luo, who has already helped me negotiate the cooperation framework with Whispering Music, and I will go to the Whispering headquarters tomorrow afternoon to officially sign the contract.

The day after tomorrow Saturday, after "Star Silk Road" broadcasts the pilot of our program, Whisper Music will exclusively launch this song.

Two dollars for a song, we can get a piece of six cents. Brother Qing'er, how much do you think we can earn? ”

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Watching Miao Miao settling accounts with her fingers, the happiness on her face was about to overflow.

"Then tomorrow afternoon, after Miao Miao goes out, she can go into her office to treat Internet addiction."

Thinking of this, Yan Qing's heart was also filled with happiness.