world number one pianist

Chapter 17 Recording Studio

"Records? Why did you think of recording records?"

Wang Pei never expected that He Shen would actually make such a request. He sat upright, put his left hand on the piano, resting on his chin, looked at He Shen curiously, and said.

"I can understand you doing other things, but recording records, why would you want to do this? You must know that the market for classical music is shrinking as a whole, even those popular music are rarely recorded, why would you Thinking of making a record?"

"Because I feel that I have touched the peak of a work, so I want to try and see if I can record it."

He Shen said lightly, his tone full of confidence.

Which of the previous master-level "Chopin Ballades" gave him a particularly deep understanding of Chopin's works, especially the four Chopin Ballades.

If you don't record these four ballads, it's tantamount to traveling at night in Jinyi.

It is really unnecessary to have a unique skill but keep it from being known to outsiders.

Therefore, He Shen decided to ask Wang Pei for help, and asked him if he had a channel to record a record for him.

Wang Pei obviously hesitated, he groped his chin, not sure.

"That's it... If you just want that kind of vinyl record, I shouldn't have any channels, but if you just want to record the works you performed, I still have a method, and it's very simple."

"Ok?"

"Go directly to the recording studio to record, just like recording in our school's recording studio."

"Your school's recording studio?"

"Of course, I applied to build this at the time, and it cost almost 30."

He Shen was stunned. , Wang Pei said before that his school was authorized by Steinway, but He Shen is actually okay, after all, as long as you have money, you can get this thing.

Back then, as one of the most economically minded people in the school, Wang Pei would have thought it was normal to get this thing.

After spending money to obtain Steinway's authorization, these stores are not purely losing money, but completely profitable. Many licensees rely on Steinway's name to bluff people outside, and then actually sell some miscellaneous pianos.

To put it simply, even if you look at a piano, it costs 300 million yuan, which is very expensive, and your first reaction is that the pianos in this piano store are all very high-end and high-grade.

If you can’t afford it, you will naturally turn your attention to other pianos in this piano store. Even ordinary pianos, under the praise of the sales staff and the blessing of the Steinway halo, most people will be rejected. Flicker dizzy, pay to buy.

After coming and going, although Steinway did not sell a few units, these franchisees bought all those ordinary brands or miscellaneous brands, and made a lot of money.

No matter how expensive the authorization fee is, this kind of profit, which is the same as that of luxury goods, can definitely be earned quickly and the money will be returned.

But this recording studio is different. He Shen really didn't expect Wang Pei to set up a recording studio. .

Such things as recording studios are generally aimed at those music studios and those private musicians.

To put it simply, the entire recording studio needs a special designer to design, conduct acoustic research on the sound transmission inside the recording studio, and pay special attention to every detail.

After the room is built, the console needs to be built outside, and the console costs a lot of money, and then various equipment.

What recorder, sound card, microphone...

A lot of things, if you specialize in this, the price will definitely go up.

And, it's hard to pay back!
As far as He Shen knows so far, it costs 200-500 an hour to rent a video studio outside. If calculated according to the most median value, 350, Wang Pei needs to rent at least 1000 hours to pay back the cost.

And how many people would choose to rent a recording studio to record music?

So basically, making this is purely a personal hobby. Spend money to make yourself happy. Don’t dream of making money from this recording studio.

Wang Pei stood up from the piano bench, walked to the door, and waved at He Shen.

"Come on, go to the shed. No one should use it recently, so you can use it as you like."

After all, after He Shen approached, he led He Shen out towards the entrance of the piano store. At the entrance of the piano store, that is, behind the front sales office, he opened a secret door and walked in with He Shen.

The two walked not far in the dark, and then arrived at the recording studio of the symphony shop.

Wang Pei stretched out his hand to turn on the lamp next to it, and countless soft lights flooded out instantly, illuminating the entire recording studio with incomparable warmth.

"Qiang Qiang, look, our school's recording studio is usually used to record those children. After these children have perfected a piece of work, we will take them to this place to record, and send it to their parents."

"When the year-end performance is held every year, we will take out some works that these children played better in a year, burn them into CDs separately, and give them as New Year's gifts."

"You have to know that these parents don't know how to play the piano, and they don't know what their children are like, but when they see that their children can produce a whole CD of works, they don't need to mention how excited they are, and they go out to show off to their relatives. There is also the capital to show off."

"It's like, 'Look, my child is so good. After only one year of learning, he will be able to release a solo album. Hey, I really didn't want him to learn the piano. He insisted on learning. Tsk tsk, I didn't expect it to be true. Learned a trick and came out.'”

"However, we can only give them one copy of the CD. If you want to get more copies as gifts, you will have to pay extra, which can be profitable."

"After all, satisfying the vanity of students' parents is the foundation of our piano business's survival."

While Wang Pei introduced the working mode of his recording studio, he fumbled around the recording studio, and it took a while to start the whole recording studio.

He looked at the bright light spots all around him, clapped his hands, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Okay, you go in, remember to watch my gestures, after I give you a signal, you can start recording, remember, you must watch my gestures."

"OK, all right."

He Shen nodded, pushed open the extremely heavy door next to the console, and walked through a partition door before entering the recording studio.

As soon as he walked into the recording studio, all the surrounding sounds seemed to be completely separated from him, and the surrounding became extremely quiet, without any noise.

The piano placed in the middle for recording is also a Steinway. This Steinway looks similar to the one in Wang Pei's previous office. It should be a Steinway B211.
He Shen sat on the piano bench, adjusted his chair a little, and then ran through the scale and arpeggio quickly, so that he could have a general understanding of the basic performance of the piano.

The timbre is not much different from the normal Steinway, a relatively balanced timbre, transparent and full.

Rebound, the speed is slightly slower, but still within a controllable range.

The keyboard feels slightly harder, and requires a little more force.

resonance……

After He Shen quickly went through all the data of this piano in his mind, he knew it well, and then nodded to Wang Pei outside.

(End of this chapter)