Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 10 Recording Completed
It was decided to record the tape.

In the following days, Zhou Ziheng became busy.

He continued to sing in the cabaret at night and worked on accompaniment music with the Truth Telling Band during the day.

If he has free time, he will continue to go on roadshows in Nonglin.

More than half a month passed like this, and when the Tell the Truth Band was completely familiar with the songs on Zhou Ziheng's tape, Zhou Ziheng took them into the recording studio of China Record Corporation.

In fact, the pre-production and post-production work of a tape often takes more time than recording.

The preliminary work includes finding someone to compose songs and produce accompaniment.

First, the songs.

A formal album should contain no less than ten songs.

With so many songs, if there is no company support and a large number of lyricists and composers, and if all are handed over to one person, the workload would be absolutely horrific.

Because songwriters need inspiration to write songs. Sometimes they can write a song in an hour, and sometimes they may spend half a year without writing a few notes.

Therefore, this step often takes a lot of time.

Even big record companies will put a lot of effort into song selection in order to ensure record sales. They collect a large number of songs and select from them based on various factors such as quality and style.

It would take at least one or two months to complete the work.

The second thing is to prepare the accompaniment music.

Regular singers do not need to be responsible for this part. After receiving the song, the company will find an arranger to arrange the music, and then find a band or musicians to familiarize themselves with the song and record the accompaniment.

As for post-production, that is, mastering, mixing and other work, this also requires professionals to spend a certain amount of time to complete.

In a word, the singer is just a fastener in a record.

He connected the early and later stages of the work. Although he was indispensable, he was not as awesome as many netizens in later generations thought.

Just one member of a huge team.

Just like this tape by Zhou Ziheng.

He was responsible for the song himself. He had the complete song in his mind for the accompaniment, and he would directly analyze the instruments in it step by step, and decide when to use which instrument and how to play it.

After he had completely finished these, the rest of the work became much easier.

Especially recording.

To be honest, after more than half a month of familiarity and rehearsal, they were able to play the songs on the tape in coordination without any major flaws.

Therefore, recording became much simpler, it was just a matter of playing the instrument once in front of the recording equipment.

Of course, because the recording equipment of this period was not as advanced as that of later generations, they could only record in small segments and then synthesize them together, requiring the band to perform it all at once.

So this step still took some time, and it took about a week before the accompaniment of all the songs was finally completed.

After finishing the accompaniment, the next step is naturally Zhou Ziheng's recording.

There is not much to say about this part. The songs Zhou Ziheng picked out do not require advanced singing skills. Ordinary people can sing them well after becoming proficient in them.

So this part was completed in just five days, and Zhou Ziheng basically recorded two songs a day.

It was the 17th, mid-August.

The climate in Guangzhou is getting hotter.

The stuffy and humid air makes people feel irritable and depressed.

However, although Zhou Ziheng was sweating profusely due to the scorching heat, he felt unusually clear and refreshed in his heart.

Just today, the production of this tape, which he named "Wandering Song", was officially completed.

"Zi..."

I pressed the play button on the recorder, and the electric current of the old recorder started to sound, and the melody immediately began to play.

"Tonight I come to your window again"

"How lovely your shadow is on the curtain"

"I have loved you quietly for so many years"

"I'm leaving tomorrow"

After the prelude ended, Zhou Ziheng's own voice sounded in the recorder. "It sounds so good!"

Listening to his own songs on the tape recorder, Zhou Ziheng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Zhou Ziheng had listened to the songs on this tape countless times in his previous life.

The feeling I had when I listened to it then was completely different from the feeling I have now.

This is what I sang.

Moreover, in this era they will be their own works.

"When are you going to the Pacific?"

Opposite him, Li Chunbo was sitting in front of an electric fan, enjoying the hot air from it, and asked Zhou Ziheng.

"Let's go tomorrow!" Zhou Ziheng took out the tape and stroked it lovingly, "I can't wait to hear my songs on the street."

"I hope Pacific can sign your tape and publish it as soon as possible!" Li Chunbo said with a sigh, "Perhaps, your tape will be published before mine."

Hearing this, Zhou Ziheng was silent for a moment.

He didn't know how to comfort her.

Almost two months have passed, but there has been no movement in the planning department regarding Li Chunbo's "Xiao Fang". It is said that someone inside is unwilling to publish this tape.

After hesitating for a long time, he raised his head and said, "Don't worry, if I become rich, I will never forget you, my brother in distress."

"Ha ha!"

Hearing this, Li Chunbo couldn't help laughing, "Then I'll wait for you to become rich!"

"Will do!"

Zhou Ziheng replied with a smile.

They were all reborn, even though it was the difficult 1990s, but Zhou Ziheng still couldn't become rich.

Then he might as well find a piece of tofu and kill himself.

"That's right!" Li Chunbo was smiling, and suddenly he seemed to think of something, "Brother Xiaoqi knows that I'm helping you get the tape.

He asked me to tell you that if the tape is ready, you can show it to him for review."

"Are you going to the China Record Corporation today? If you want to go, just take it with you. I need to go find Liu Jianguo and pay for the recording of the accompaniment."

Zhou Ziheng said.

Hearing this, Li Chunbo frowned and said, "Brother Jianguo is so unkind. It was clearly agreed that the price was 300 yuan per song, but halfway through the recording, you suddenly raised the price. If you had known earlier, you should have contacted an outside band.

Guangzhou is so big, there are many inexpensive and experienced bands. "

Zhou Ziheng was also a little angry.

Originally, he and Liu Jianguo had already agreed to hire their band to help record the accompaniment for 300 yuan per song.

As a result, after recording three songs, Liu Jianguo actually raised the price of recording accompaniment from three hundred to five hundred on the grounds that all bands in the market had raised their prices.

Almost half more.

In fact, Zhou Ziheng also knew why they suddenly raised the price.

It’s simply because they are jealous of Zhou Ziheng’s recent income in the karaoke bar.

Ever since he sang "Wandering Song" for the first time in the nightclub that night, Zhou Ziheng's income from tips every night thereafter was not low, with the highest being four or five hundred yuan and the lowest being more than two hundred yuan on one night.

On average, he gets about three hundred and fifty every night.

After one month, he became a millionaire.

It was precisely because Zhou Ziheng earned more money that Liu Jianguo felt that his fees were too low, so he temporarily raised the price halfway through the process.

If we were to find a band at that time, not only would we have to get them familiar with the songs again, but the previously recorded songs would also not be used because they disagreed with us because we were telling the truth, so they had to be re-recorded.

After wasting so much time and effort, Zhou Ziheng finally agreed to his price of 500 yuan per song.

"This is the last time! They won't have a chance to work with me again!"

Zhou Ziheng said this in a deep voice, handed the tape to Li Chunbo, and asked him to take it to Chen Xiaoqi.

(End of this chapter)