Chapter 413: Recording a Song with Many Twists and Turns
"What, a tape?" Liang Ziqiang saw clearly what was in Lin Baixian's hand.
"Blank tapes," Lin Baixian said with a smile, "Didn't my cousin give me a tape recorder last year? The tapes I brought back include a few boxes of good songs and two boxes of blank tapes!"
After he said this, Liang Ziqiang understood.
The last time Liang Ziqiang was buying tapes at the bookstore below the department store, he saw two young men coming over and asking the salesperson if he had any blank tapes for sale.
Normal records generally cost five or six dollars a box, which was really expensive in that era, while blank tapes only cost one dollar a box.
Many young people bought blank tapes specifically for this purpose, so that whenever they heard a good song from someone else, they would record it themselves.
When you get tired of listening to a song, you can "clean" the tape and re-record new songs. Repeating this process over and over again, a tape can store many different songs and last for a long time.
"A Qiang, you bought a few cassettes a while ago. Is there a song from the movie "Little Flower" on them? Xiuting came to your house to chat with your sister-in-law a few days ago. She liked that song very much and told me about it when she got home. She originally wanted me to buy one next time I go to the city, but I rarely go to the city now. Then I thought, why not bring some blank tapes to you and record one for Xiuting to listen to first!" Lin Baixian explained his purpose.
"What are you talking about? Come on, I'll record it for you now!"
Chen Xiangbei loves to listen to the theme song of "Little Flower". Liang Ziqiang estimates that Jiang Xiuting may have watched the movie "Little Flower" shown by the projection team a few years ago. While liking the movie, she also liked the song "Sister is Looking for Her Brother with Tears in Her Eyes".
He and Lin Baixian entered the main room. The Panda SL-05 recorder was placed on a large cabinet, not far from the black and white TV.
Lin Baixian looked around Panda SL-05 and said:
"Sure enough, it has dual tape slots, how convenient! I originally wanted to bring the one I have at home over here, two machines, one for playback and one for recording, but then I thought about it and I seemed to have heard you mention that your machine has dual tape slots!"
If it was just a single tape slot, to record a song, you would have to have two tape recorders, one for playback and the other for recording.
But this dual-card type can play and record at the same time, and one machine can complete the recording by itself.
Liang Ziqiang immediately put the original tape of the theme song of "Little Flower" into the slot on the left side of the recorder and pressed the "fast forward" button until the tape rotated to the position of the song "Little Flower".
After making sure the position is correct, put the blank tape brought by Lin Baixian into another slot on the right.
The play and record buttons were pressed at the same time, and the female voice of "Sister Looking for Her Brother with Tears in Her Eyes" immediately floated in the room.
When I was recording about three or four sentences, a beautiful woman's humming sounded outside the house:
"Looking forward to my loved ones with all my eyes, the flowers bloom and fall for several years..."
Liang Ziqiang and Lin Baixian were both dumbfounded and looked at each other.
In a flash, Chen Xiangbei appeared at the door with a few bunches of lettuce. She obviously didn't know that Lin Baixian was in the main room, and thought it was her man who was listening to music for fun. Before she even stepped into the door, she smiled and said, "Aqiang, I said this song is good, and now you like it!"
After she finished speaking, she stepped into the door and saw Lin Baixian was there too. The two men were squatting in front of the tape recorder and looked up at her together.
Chen Xiangbei's smile froze for a moment, and she was obviously embarrassed. She hummed to cover it up and asked, "Are you two playing music?"
"This isn't playing a song, this is recording a song! Now it's time to re-record it!"
Liang Ziqiang said this and pressed two keys to stop both playback and recording.
Then he rewound the tape slightly and pressed the play button to play the newly recorded tape.
"I've been looking forward to my loved ones, flowers have bloomed and fallen for years... Ah Qiang, I just said this song is nice, you see you like it now... Are you two playing it?"
As the music played, Chen Xiangbei's humming and talking outside the door sounded like the background of the music, mixed in with it, and it was quite clear!
Chen Xiangbei heard her voice being recorded and played back, and her voice became a little strange, not entirely like her original voice, and her face turned dark for a moment.
"Wash it off! Wash it off quickly. It sounds so ugly!" She walked over and turned off the play button. Then she pushed Aqiang and urged him to "wash off" the recorded content.
"Why wash? You sing well. You should keep it and listen to it slowly!" Liang Ziqiang deliberately did not move.
Chen Xiangbei took it seriously and said anxiously: "If you don't wash it, I will!"
She really approached the recorder, ready to explore and tinker with it herself. She was determined to "destroy the evidence."
But she usually only played and listened to songs, and had never operated other buttons. She kept pressing them, and her voice was still playing over and over again. She was sweating on her forehead, and she was so angry that she secretly pinched the back of his hand.
Seeing that she was really furious, Liang Ziqiang took some time to erase the things she had just recorded.
Re-recorded. This time Chen Xiangbei also left and the song was recorded smoothly.
Liang Ziqiang gave all his tapes to Ah Xian to look through and see if there were any songs that he was interested in and could be recorded all at once.
Lin Baixian took a look and said, "Love is the only way to go. Do you have this song too? My cousin played it a few times in a clothing store before. It's pretty good! Ah Qiang, you are really good at choosing songs."
Seeing that he liked the song, Liang Ziqiang followed suit and recorded "Love Across Thousands of Mountains and Rivers" for him.
This time, we were almost done recording when suddenly Aqiang's parents came back from outside.
Liang's father and mother had louder voices than Chen Xiangbei, and the sound of their quarrel was all recorded in the tape.
If you don’t retreat, you can only start over.
Liang Ziqiang had an idea and wanted to move the tape recorder into the inner room where he slept to record. The inner room had thick walls and once the door was closed, it was a natural "recording studio"!
Unfortunately, I pulled the cord of the black power strip, but the cord was not long enough to reach the inner room, so I had to give up.
Finally, Liang Ziqiang had no choice but to run out to say hello to his parents and Lizhi, asking them to stop talking for the time being, and then closed the door.
The effect was passable this time. The only drawback was that there were always some rooster crowing, the sounds of chopping wood and vegetables, Duobao's cries, and Litchi's laughter coming in through the door.
So the final version of "Love Across Thousand Mountains and Rivers" was recorded like this: "Don't say the green mountains are full of obstacles, the wind is strong and swift, oh oh oh..."
"Don't say there are many changes in the water. The water is clear and still. Bang, bang, bang!"
"Love always exists across thousands of mountains and rivers, and separation is also destined by heaven, hehehe..."
Liang Ziqiang shook his head. He had tried his best and this was the most perfect version at present.
"I think the recording is pretty good!" Lin Baixian was quite satisfied. "When you record a tape yourself, how can there not be some noise outside the door? With the door in between, the noise is not too loud this time, which is good!"
Liang Ziqiang thought about it and decided that this was the only way.
He wanted to keep Lin Baixian for dinner before leaving, but this guy was holding the recorded tape as if he had found a treasure, and hurried back to play it for Jiang Xiuting without wasting a moment.
Seeing Ah Xian walking out with a very contented look on his face, his feet bouncing with joy on the path of Juzipo, Liang Ziqiang shook his head slightly and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
It seems that Ah Xian has really forgotten Yuan Xiaomei and is only thinking about Jiang Xiuting. He really loves his wife...
(End of this chapter)
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