Miss Bach's Crab Canon

The days passed quickly, as evidenced by the pace at which the drummer improved.

Starting 20 hours a day, he can concentrate on practice time without distraction, and at the same time get a solid theoretical education. The level of this drummer has reached the performance standard of a quasi-professional band.

In other words, it is possible to record in the studio.

If it was an ordinary band, they would not be able to do it due to too many mistakes and high recording costs, but the recording studio is run by themselves, and Miaomiao can record until it is successful.But this kind of strong pressure that everyone is staring at and wants to respond to the owner's expectations has also become part of its progress.

Although the scene is quite scary...

Behind the drum is not a person, but a ray of burning flames.

There are no vigorously waving hands, only two drum sticks that rise and fall.

Gao Yiyu made it into a video of course, thinking that this rare scene that only his own band can have, it should be enough time to make PV content...

Then--

One day, after the recording ended successfully, Daphne found Gao Yiyu to discuss something together in the control room.

"Captain." Daphne called it that way.

"I think you are the captain..." Gao Yiyu felt very strange, as if being called "Big Brother" by his grandfather, his life was about to be shortened.

"No, you are the captain, because only you are human in our band can you communicate with the human world."

Makes sense.

Then, Daphne pointed to the computer: "I made a demo."

Gao Yiyu took a few steps back. It was an incredible feeling that this elementary school-sized ancient Greek goddess could really grasp these professional words.But I made a demo—that is, a sample, it should be for some things.

"Want to vote?" she asked.

"Yes, it's time for us to find a record company to sign a contract with. Because I don't know why, the overture you posted on YouTube before was disproportionately spread in China without authorization, so we have to find a local boss to take care of it."

"...Yes, it makes sense." Gao Yiyu was very guilty. The piracy was so rampant, and he didn't know who caused it.

……

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(Couldn't figure out the content of Chapter 2... OTZ)

113·This Thing

Leaving aside the issue of piracy, Gao Yiyu was very curious about which record company Daphne fell in love with.

The recording industry was very developed in the last century, even developed to a pathological level, but that was the golden age, and most of the masterpieces were born in those days, both at home and abroad.

Later, at the beginning of the 21st century, with the excessively free spirit of the Internet, the profitability of the recording industry was no longer what it used to be, and it was actually sluggish for a time.To a certain extent, this has caused the quality of music to decline and date.

Later, the medium of the Internet changed from computers to mobile phones, and it was much easier to supervise this stuff.Moreover, because the popularity of mobile phones is too high, the strictness of piracy supervision in all walks of life has increased by another dimension. Record companies rely on digital copyrights to come back to life like this.

However, because of the sharp drop in the threshold for creation and audience, the quality of music no longer exists.

Although Gao Yiyu thinks so, finding a record company as a backer does have many benefits that are visible to the naked eye.

They have a very good professional recording studio, a very complete and high-quality music equipment, and there are sound engineers, sound mixers, and tuners who specialize in this industry. They will be responsible for making music into music, and they can be very save trouble.

At least Daphne and Gao Yiyu don't have to do the post-production by themselves.

Not only that, music can also have a very stable channel to make regular profits.

For musicians, there are indeed many benefits. Being signed means that they have become a professional and have some guarantees.As for whether you can become popular in the future, it depends on how many resources the company has given you and your own strength.

——This is the way of ordinary musicians.

"Why is it the way of ordinary musicians?" Joannis asked, because she sat outside the door for a long time and did not wait for Gao Yiyu to come out, so she ran back to the recording studio, only to find that the two of them had a secret meeting here, without her at all ...

So when Joannis joined on the way, Gao Yiyu and Daphne began to popularize the common sense for her.

Of course, she will ask questions about what she doesn't understand.

"Ordinary musicians are not actually musicians."

It was Daphne who spoke. She was sitting cross-legged on a chair, holding her too slender calf with both hands, shaking it like a restless child.

"According to my analysis, most of the current singers are actually just a skin shelf, responsible for giving a 'human' element to the album cover."

"...I don't understand."

"Music is a commodity, and the biggest selling point of the commodity is the singer himself. The selling point of the singer is not the person who produces the music, but a part of the commodity."

"...still don't understand."

"To put it simply, from writing songs, orchestrating, arranging, and then post-mixing and producing the master tape to release, there are many people who work together, and the singer is just the one who provides the voice. The things they sing generally need to be overhauled. Only then can it be put into an album and sold, this is pop music now.”

After Gao Yiyu explained, although Joannis half understood, at least she listened carefully.

Gao Yiyu sat on the table with his legs crossed, and continued to explain.

"This kind of singers are usually made of various plastic surgery and PS photos, and they are responsible for attracting audiences who can be attracted by these things. So their popularity does not actually depend on their musical strength. It depends on how much publicity and exposure resources the company gives.”

"The more publicity and exposure, the more people will see these things. Therefore, the company wants someone to have a prosperous career, as long as it is publicized and assigned a powerful music producer, it has nothing to do with him .”

Gao Yiyu and Daphne basically outlined the matter in one sentence. As for whether Joannis can understand it or not, it doesn't matter.Anyway, this kind of thing is so magical that even modern people can't understand it.

Joannis was silent for a while: "That is to say, we work hard to play and record, and as long as there is not enough publicity, we will not be able to become popular?"

"Yes." Daphne nodded.

"But, it's not." Gao Yiyu said, "It's not only the company that will promote music, but also the audience."

As long as they agree from the bottom of their hearts.

After basically talking about this matter, Joannis did not continue to understand these weird modern logics, because Gao Yiyu told her that the ancient logics still prevail.

In other words, just make good music—Ioannis feels at ease about this.

Gao Yiyu and Daphne, who stayed in the recording studio, were responsible for handling these chores.Even so, before submitting the demo to a certain record company, Gao Yiyu wanted to hear what their band's first demo was like.

This word, called sample sound tape or recording sample tape, is a necessary and excellent stepping stone.

But Gao Yiyu didn't have much confidence if he didn't do it himself...

Post-production work such as recording and mixing was done by Daphne without knowing it. Gao Yiyu knew that she was very good, but he didn't know how good she was.

"Can I hear what demo you made?"

"Ah."

Daphne hooked her fingers, signaling Gao Yiyu to stand behind her.Gao Yiyu did as he did, and the two of them were one high and the other low, head to head, just in the best sound field crossover range of several pairs of monitor speakers.

Daphne skillfully found the folder, selected the audio file from it, and played it like this.

The first thing to appear is a synthesizer sound effect.

It simulates distorted string music like the wind, with little ups and downs, but the interspersed electronic sound effects and reverb effects create an excellent atmosphere.Its sound quality was beyond imagination, and Gao Yiyu even thought that she had misplaced the song and was playing the beginning of a famous album.

Then, continuous snare drums proceed, taking over the beat.

The melody line of the electric guitar stepped out from the dark.It is not ostentatious, and with the previous atmosphere foreshadowing, it feels like it came just right.When the snare drum came to an end and faded out with the beat of the cymbal, besides the melody line of the electric guitar, there was more bass support.

"This is... the second part..."

She remembers what she played, which is an electric guitar melody line that uses three pitches and three effects to reflect the rise of the melody. In fact, it is only about 15 seconds long, but it is so rich that it feels long.

Gao Yiyu can especially feel this lengthy time, because she recorded it for a whole morning because of the difficulty.

Afterwards, the clearest strings of electric guitars were quickly replaced by meteor shower-like pianos, and traditional drums, basses, and guitars all became the foundation for its existence.In addition, Daphne also added a lot of orchestral music to tune it like a master's record.

What the demo shows is actually the beginning of the second part of the song.

And, only half of the second part.It's actually a seven-minute virtuosity chapter that expresses the richness of the music.

According to the composer himself, the first part is the end of a sweet, appealing clear night.

And the second part is the dawn, when all things wake up.

But this is just a false description, because in fact, when she wrote the first part, she and Gao Yiyu hadn't had a showdown with each other, so they had a harmonious relationship and were happy.In the second part, she was at the stage of thinking too much and being too entangled, so she used a lot of voices to express.

It was a very complicated score, but after it became music——

It's so unique, so rich, so harmonious...

With a standard four-part harmony as the closing bar, the demo ends here.

"How about it?"

"It's...it's awesome...it's really awesome...this should be the best progressive rock I've heard this year."

Daphne nodded, with a smug look on her face: "Just mixed up what you recorded, and I played the synthesizer casually for a while, adding bass, orchestra and other sound sources into it."

"As expected of a goddess." Gao Yiyu gave her a thumbs up.

"Hmm, worship me more."

Daphne doesn't have any modesty, but this kind of openness and heartiness also makes Gao Yiyu more fond of her.

After the part shown in the demo is over, it is actually going to enter the content of the organ. It temporarily bids farewell to the rock orchestration and enters the classical music...to be exact, it is the baroque neo-classical field.

It will have an extremely rigorous polyphonic structure and a brand-new soundtrack, and Daphne will also sing for it, and all those with mouths will also run to help with the harmony.

It's a pity that their recordings can only be done here, and the rest will take ten days and a half months...

But after listening to the content of the demo, Gao Yiyu felt a strong sense of urgency to speed up the recording, because she wanted to hear the follow-up sooner.

But Daphne gently pushed her stomach with her head: "The demo is for you, bard. I'm tired, and I want to continue frying crude oil. I can't be distracted anymore. The work of communicating with mortals is the most important thing." here you are."

"Understood, the division of labor is clear."

Gao Yiyu has no objection. Daphne has done enough and is good enough, and she is willing to take on more work.

In fact, she does have some contacts in the record company, which is very familiar.She has been in the musician forum for a long time, and even got the authority of a small moderator. For this kind of circle where professionals gather, this status is still valuable.

It didn't take long for her to find the right match.

There are quite a lot of record companies in China, large and small, hundreds of them. Among them, there are two giants at the top of the pyramid, and four or five top-tier ones. The others specialize in various fields, and no one else can name them. of.

"Hello, I have a demo, are you interested in listening?"

What Gao Yiyu contacted was a first-line record company called Dimiao Culture, a sound mixer in one of their recording studios.

This kind of person is often the biggest contributor to the birth of a piece of music, and will also be the person with a higher voice in the recording studio. In other words, they are professional.And because this job is respectable, he even registered his real name, and put his contact information in his personal information...

After writing clearly, Gao Yiyu added the other party's WeChat, Mr. Liu... In this case, it should be called Teacher Liu.

"Hello, welcome, are you alone or?"

"The band, I want to cooperate with you."

"Okay." On the way to send the file, the other party was very polite, "We welcome the band to cooperate for a win-win situation. I will listen to your work first, and I will evaluate it objectively."

……

At the same time, in a recording studio under the name of Dimiao Culture in a first-tier big city, Teacher Liu was actually very impatient.

Mainly, the singers who just came to record, left after singing, and did not continue to communicate with themselves about any creative ideas.As a sound mixer, he can't completely follow his own creative ideas, because many details have to be finalized with the singer, so that the work can go smoothly.

If not, he will do it according to his own ideas and send it to the singer and the company. The singer who let go of it before will jump out and find all kinds of problems, which will lead to a redo.This happened more than once, but the singer always said that he was busy going to shows, events, endorsements...

Teacher Liu has only been in the job for a few years, and he doesn't have the weight to suppress those traffic singers, so he can only work with frustration every day.

He actually hates people recommending themselves, like now.

These people always think that there is no threshold for making music, and they use their mobile phones to record shitty folk guitar playing and singing... and they still use other people's songs, saying that they are independent musicians, folk singers, and so on. I always like to introduce how many fans I have on Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili, and Xiaohongshu.

Speaking of which, that's okay, at least he didn't say such nonsense.

He threw the phone aside impatiently, complaining about how disgusting it is to transfer files from WeChat to the computer, then rummaged through the messy wires, and forcibly pulled out the monitor earphones.He swears a lot, not at anyone, just at fucking life.

In order to vent his emotions, he would rub his hair vigorously. The hairline had receded, and his hands would become greasy if he didn't wash it for a day.

I have to listen to this person's demo, alas.

He rubbed the oil on his T-shirt, then put on his dirty earphones, intending to wait for five seconds to listen to the demo he received today.In fact, five seconds is a lot.They are well-informed, and they can judge the specifics of a piece of audio just by the beginning.

Play——

then……

The mouse was pointing at the "Close" button, and his spirit was not concentrated.

However, after five seconds, he still hadn't finished playing the audio.Instead, he put away his irritability and concentrated his attention for a while.

The arrangement at the beginning is very good, the sound source is... He probably already has the bottom line, and he can hear it. Just the beginning of the non-instrumental synthesizer arrangement, it uses a very mature variety of techniques to structure... ...This should be professional, right?interesting.