The two students who came in, a man and a woman, were both sixth-year students at the Qi'an Conservatory of Music, and the man's name was Thomas, who asked Fang Zhao for help after class today. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info girl's name is Cheng Lan, with a short hair with a sense of heaviness, flat bangs, and a more lively personality.

According to the two, next Tuesday is Cheng Lan's birthday, but Tuesday has a full day of classes and various tasks, so they can't spare time to spend it, so they moved their birthdays to today, and it just so happens that their friends also have time, and they come here to celebrate their birthdays after school.

The private room they booked was not far from here, and the others hadn't come yet, Thomas and Cheng Lan had just arrived, and they were about to go to the private room they had booked, and when they passed by, they saw Fang Zhao, so they came in to say hello.

Seeing Fang Zhao taking notes so seriously, the two people who were about to graduate suddenly felt a sense of guilt, compared to Fang Zhao, they were simply wasting their time!

"Oh, it's stressful!" Thomas sighed, "It's rare to find time to come out and have fun." ”

The six-year university system, the better the university, the stricter the graduation requirements, and the Qi'an Conservatory of Music, the best conservatory in Yanzhou, naturally has stricter graduation requirements.

People who usually have excellent grades and a solid foundation do not worry about the various assessments of graduation at this time, but have already begun to look for internship companies, but like Thomas, they don't pay much attention on weekdays, so they have to use more time and energy to save it, at least make their various assessment results in this critical year more beautiful, after all, they have to show their transcripts when looking for a job.

Thinking of something, Thomas paused on the electric guitar hanging on the background wall, and asked Fang Zhao: "Senior brother, how much do you know about ancient musical instruments?" Aren't you good at composing pieces with symphonic structures? Although the instruments used by the orchestra are not ancient instruments, they are all developed from ancient instruments. ”

"Ancient musical instruments?" Fang Zhao nodded, "Understand a part." ”

The so-called "old-fashioned musical instruments" are actually the collective name of all musical instruments before the extinction of the new century, which should be called "old-fashioned musical instruments" or "old-style musical instruments" according to the rules, but the words "old" and "old" are not seen or heard by academics, and they feel that the artistic style is lowered and cannot decorate the façade, so the word "ancient" is used.

"What do you want to know?" Fang Zhao asked.

Thomas smiled, sat on the sofa nearby, rubbed his hands, and then raised his finger and pointed to the electric guitar hanging on the wall, "That's it, according to reliable sources, in our final exam this semester, the test center for ancient musical instruments is 'electric guitar', but in our six years of college life, we have not had a class on ancient electric guitar at all." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Cheng Lan also laughed, and diligently poured a cup of tea for Fang Zhao, "Senior brother, in fact, we chose this place just to get close to the electric guitar, you also know that ancient musical instruments, even if they are imitations, are relatively expensive, especially electric guitars, no small 10,000 yuan can't take them, and the ancient electric guitars with excellent materials and good imitations are even more expensive, and they are not at all affordable for us poor students." The electric guitars here in 'space' are all made of antique electric guitars, not those evolved versions at the beginning of the new century, pure antique instruments, and the production is medium and high-end, so we thought, come here...... Research research. ”

Thomas and Cheng Lan's thoughts, Fang Zhao can also understand. A hundred years of extinction almost formed a fault, even if there are a lot of videos, electronic archive information, etc. can be preserved through various means, after the establishment of the new century, the archaeological team continues to make new discoveries, but in terms of musical instruments, can be preserved is extremely limited, in that special period, musical instruments are relatively speaking, is really not important enough, so the new century about the musical instrument guidance of the video will be relatively few, the old century musical instruments are also speculated by antique dealers to high prices. In times of peace, the operability of these things is greater.

The quality of video teaching in the old century is definitely not as good as that of the new century, not much, not perfect, and even fewer musicians who can survive from the extinction century, even if they survive, after a hundred years of struggle, they may not still be able to remember the knowledge and techniques of the past, not everyone can simulate a musical instrument performance scene in their minds like Fang Zhao.

Other Fang Zhao didn't dare to say it, but the ancient musical instrument, these two people really asked him the right person.

"What do you want to know about the electric guitar?" Fang Zhao asked.

"No more, no less, just trying to figure out how it should be used." Thomas was afraid that Fang Zhao would be troublesome to them, so he hurriedly said, "The knowledge points about ancient musical instruments should not be too detailed, anyway, the actual operation will definitely not be there, so senior brother, you just need to talk about its correct usage." ”

Hundreds of years of development, driven by science and technology, the materials are changing, and the shape of the instruments is also changing, and the ultimate goal is to make the operation simpler and the instruments more convenient to carry, otherwise, these musical instruments will withdraw from the historical stage under the impact of increasingly perfect electronic musical instruments, and truly become "antiques" that are not used in the world.

Just like now, many students in conservatories only need a musical keyboard to create, download some materials, and they can simulate almost all the musical instrument pronunciation they need, which is affordable and practical, and they don't need to learn the techniques of various musical instruments, just learn the music keyboard techniques.

In contrast, the old century electric guitar was really hard to learn in the eyes of these students! Fortunately, their ultimate goal is only to understand some basic operation and theoretical knowledge, and they just need to cope with the exam, and they are unwilling to let them learn the techniques of the ancient electric guitar.

Cheng Lan also echoed beside him, "Really, we have purchased some teaching videos, and watching the operations of those people in them, it feels too difficult, and many knowledge points are also difficult to remember, senior brother, can you explain it to us?" ”

"I remember, there were a lot of instructional videos online." Fang Zhao said.

Fang Zhao knew from his memory that the original owner of the body used to cope with the exam by downloading free videos and materials from the school library, relying on a memory that was a little stronger than others, rote memorization and a little luck to get a high score.

"Those are not necessarily reliable, you can only watch more, compare, and then summarize yourself." Thomas said with a bitter face. That's where their pressure comes from, it's a lot of work!

The explanations of those videos that are downloaded for free are obscure, and probably the people who explain them don't understand it so well, and the truly authoritative instructional videos also need to be bought at a large price. In addition, even if you spend so much money, you may not really get what you want to know, and the things in the video may not really be correct, and someone has confirmed a few years ago that there are two serious errors in the guidance video released by a very popular musician and researcher of ancient musical instruments.

Although in the end, the musician returned the money for the purchase of the video to the buyers, but many students have already written the wrong knowledge points in the exam, and the points that should have been deducted have already been deducted, and they can't regret it. Therefore, generally speaking, it is very easy to lose points in the test center involving ancient musical instruments.

For hundreds of years, it's not that no one has figured out the ancient electric guitar, but those people will not make public the knowledge they have studied with great difficulty, and the only people who can learn about that knowledge from their mouths are their personal disciples and successors, and other students can't understand it. This is the norm in the industry, and it is also the reason why the old man Xue Jing was so surprised and relieved when he learned that Fang Zhao was willing to disclose his perception and knowledge of various techniques when he was compiling "Symphony New Edition".

Fang Zhao nodded, understanding the mood of the two, but, "It's only a verbal explanation, and you may not be able to remember it, so take down the electric guitar on the wall, and I'll show you it." ”

"Acting...... Demo? Thomas was stunned, and happily got up to get it.

When he took the electric guitar off the wall, Thomas was cautious, for fear that it would bump into it, and even if it was placed here for decoration, any damage would be accounted for, and he would have to pay when he left the scene.

As for the antique electric guitar in his hand, the price is estimated to be in the six-figure range. The people who opened the shop were rich and liked this instrument, and even if they were decorated, they would not decorate it with inferior products.

When he handed the electric guitar in his hand to Fang Zhao, Thomas's hand was shaking, and he slowly let go after confirming that Fang Zhao had caught it.

"Senior brother, be careful, this thing is very expensive." After speaking, Thomas remembered again that Fang Zhao was not short of money! As for how much of the copyrighted music was made in the past, even if it is not public, they can guess approximately.

Since Fang Zhao is not short of money, Thomas and Cheng Lan have enough confidence, they are not as restrained as they were just now, and they reached out and touched them curiously. In the past, they didn't dare to touch the electric guitar on the wall when they came here, for fear of breaking the accompaniment. It's okay for them to play here once in a while with that little money, but if they really pay compensation, they will have to hemorrhage.

"Today's senior brother, we will help you pay for your consumption here today!" Cheng Lan is also happy today, no matter if Fang Zhao can teach them the knowledge points they want to know, seeing that Fang Zhao is willing to help them, this meal has to be invited.

"You don't need to pay for it." Fang Zhao took the guitar and looked at Thomas, "Take out the others too." ”

"Others? What else is there? Isn't it just a guitar? Thomas wondered.

Cheng Lan gave him an elbow, "Idiot, have you watched the guidance video in vain?" And the speakers, the leads, the effects! ”

"Oh! Right, right! There's something else, I'm sorry, it's an old-fashioned classical guitar, hey, my brain! Senior brother, you wait first, let's find out. ”

Thomas and Cheng Lan found several cabinets on the wall, which looked like decorative objects, and when they pressed it, the cabinet door opened automatically.

"This big one is a speaker...... Right? Thomas looked at Cheng Lan.

"I remember." Cheng Lan looked at Fang Zhao, saw Fang Zhao nodded, and smiled happily. She remembered that correctly.

"I know the wire, but what about this? What are these? Thomas looked at the lumpy objects, looking at them in front and back, stunned, "There are no labels on them." ”

Cheng Lan couldn't be sure this time, she really didn't know, did the information she memorized before mention this? I didn't mention it in the video I watched two days ago!

"That's an effect." Fang Zhao said.

"Effects? These...... Both? It's not the same as the video we're watching. There is only one effect in the video we watched, and it doesn't look like this, so it's called a comprehensive effect. ”

"Well, there's that, beginners. Inside are stompboxes. Fang Zhao explained.

"Oh, I see." Thomas grabbed the stuff and got ready to start the installation.

"Wait!" Cheng Lan stopped Thomas and asked Fang Zhao, "Senior brother, can I record this process?" I can't remember it after listening to it once. ”

"Yes." Fang Zhao didn't care about this.

"Thank you, brother!" Cheng Lan glanced at Thomas, "Be serious, I'm going to start recording now." ”

"Remember to pat me on the face." Thomas took the wire, paused, and turned to look at Fang Zhao, "Senior brother, how do you take this?" Don't get up, just sit there, you give orders, and I'll pick it up. ”

Fang Zhao didn't refuse, Thomas could deepen his memory by doing it himself, so he sat on the sofa and said: "The effect is placed in the middle of the speaker and the guitar wire, the guitar wire is connected to the effect input, and the output of the effect is connected to the input of the speaker......"

Thomas followed Fang Zhao's guidance and connected step by step, he used to think that ancient musical instruments were troublesome, all kinds of equipment were too complicated, and it was difficult to operate, but now he felt that when he actually did it, he also had a sense of accomplishment. Actually, it's not that difficult! Look, this is connected in series, how easy!

It's such a simple thing, but some people on the Internet talk about it in a complicated way, I don't know what the intention is!

Cheng Lan recorded this scene in its entirety on the side, including Fang Zhao's explanation of each effect, what is "distortion", "compression", "noise", "delay" and "reverberation......

As he was connecting the effects, Thomas picked up one and read the words printed on it, "wah-wah?" What is this? ”

"Wow pedal." Fang Zhao said.

"Wow? Could it be the one who made the 'whoa, whoa, whoa' sound? Thomas's face was full of surprise, "That's Denji's timbre!?" I didn't know! ”

They usually use the "wow" material downloaded directly from the music keyboard, and they don't even know that it is the sound of an ancient electric guitar! If this is a multiple-choice question, he can only rely on Meng.

After connecting, Fang Zhao demonstrated while explaining, and Thomas obediently stood by and listened carefully, and did it when it was time to change the effect.

The intermediary party will also let Thomas and Cheng Lan express their opinions and ask questions.

"Senior brother, the paragraph you just talked about is different from the reference video we saw last time." Cheng Lan asked.

"Listen to me."

“…… Be. Cheng Lan responded.

Thomas prefers to believe Fang Zhao, "I said that there must be a mistake in the reference video I bought last time, if I really follow that note, maybe I will lose points by then!" Not only is it not good, but how did the kind of teacher who misleads people's children get a professional teacher qualification certificate? There's definitely some inside story! ”

"Don't care if it's an inside story or not, hurry up, according to what my senior brother said, I'm still recording it." Cheng Lan interrupted Thomas's complaint, she was still waiting for Fang Zhao's explanation and demonstration later, before she just had the mentality of giving it a try, thinking that as long as she could get a small knowledge point from Fang Zhao, who knows, Fang Zhao gave them too many surprises! It's an all-round explanation! Covering all the basics of electric guitar is definitely enough for those of them who are preparing for the exam!

This is a humanoid reference book!

If these can be posted in the class group, the class will be ...... No, when the time comes, the entire Qi'an Conservatory of Music who needs archaeological electric guitar knowledge will have to go crazy!