Chapter 58 Production
Although Gu Qingge was looking forward to her brother's debut in the LPL, she still had to finish her work first.
After she brought You Ruoyu and Lin Yun to Pingjing, Xinghuo Entertainment had already arranged a hotel for them.
The next day, Gu Qingge met Hao Jie. He had been looking forward to her arrival for a long time.
Now Hao Jie has practiced "He Doesn't Understand" to perfection. He strives for perfection in every detail, including pitch, rhythm, breathing, etc.
It must be admitted that Hao Jie is indeed a person who must focus on singing.
When Gu Qingge saw him this time, he found that his vocal skills had progressed from proficient level to expert level, reaching 87%.
In other words, as long as he keeps working hard, it won't be long before his vocal skills reach the expert level.
Blue's expert-level vocal skills are enough to make Hao Jie a powerful singer in the music world. Considering that he is only 22 years old, his future is indeed limitless.
"Ms. Gu, are you satisfied with this contract?" Hao Jie said with a flattering smile on his face.
Before Gu Qingge went to help Hao Jie produce "He Doesn't Understand", there were indeed some contracts to sign.
After all, the full copyright of this song belongs to singer Gu Qingge, and Gu Qingge did not directly sell the ownership of the song, but only authorized it to Hao Jie for use.
In this parallel world, talented original musicians have a very high status and their works’ copyright protection is also very complete.
Musicians generally do not sell the ownership of their works easily unless they really need money urgently.
Of course, Gu Qingge is not short of money for the time being. Not to mention the steady stream of royalties she earns from "Who Can Compete", even her brother's salary is kept with her.
So what she focuses on is the long-term benefits. For a song like "He Doesn't Understand" that is destined to become popular, she wants to hold it in her own hands.
Gu Qingge also specially hired a professional lawyer. Even if Xinghuo Entertainment is sincere, it is still necessary to be on guard.
"I am very satisfied with the contract, but are you sure you will transfer all the share of the song from Yinyue.com to me?" Gu Qingge asked.
Hao Jie nodded happily: "Yes, I don't really care about the 5% share. I care more about the friendship between me and a talented musician like you. If you have any good songs in the future, please consider me first."
Gu Qingge showed a satisfied look. It seemed that this university senior was also a good person.
However, Hao Jie had already calculated that the company planned to set the download price of "He Doesn't Understand" at 2 yuan. He would only get 1 cent when the song was downloaded by one user. Even if it had one million downloads, his pre-tax income would only be 100,000 yuan.
Although Hao Jie knew that this song was very good, he was a new singer and Gu Qingge was using the new alias "Remembering Jiangnan". The download volume of such a new singer and new song would probably not reach one million.
Hao Jie felt that if he took any commercial performance in the future, his income would exceed the share from Yinyue.com.
After all, singers don't make money by earning money from the public. They have to make big money from various program announcements, commercial performances, endorsements, etc.
Hao Jie thought it was a good deal to give up this small amount of money to improve Gu Qingge's favorability towards him.
After signing this contract, Gu Qingge can get 20% of the profits because she is also the one who arranges the music.
Gu Qingge, Hao Jie and Xinghuo Entertainment had no objections, so the song was quickly started.
Gu Qingge had already made sufficient preparations before this. She told the staff behind Spark Records, "Based on Hao Jie's timbre, I plan to use the cello and box guitar, two of the most natural instruments, as the background music for the song."
“Do we need to add reverb?”
“It’s almost unnecessary. You must try to minimize the amount of naked sound that needs to be processed in post-production.”
"Wouldn't this accompaniment be sufficiently polished?"
"I didn't plan to use any fancy accompaniment to embellish it." Gu Qingge said lightly.
She is very confident in Hao Jie's vocal skills.
With the help of You Ruoyu, Gu Qingge first finished arranging the accompaniment tape with surprisingly high efficiency, which shocked the employees of Xinghuo Records.
It’s okay that Gu Qingge is talented, but how come the petite girl next to her is also so powerful?
Their collaboration is simply seamless!
The subsequent recording went quite smoothly. With Gu Qingge's advance communication, Hao Jie simply sang softly to sincerely and realistically tell this painful story.
Hao Jie is obviously very good at interpreting this love song delicately, and he portrays the boy's sincere feelings very well.
In this song, he truly expressed the unspeakable pain and helplessness in the hearts of girls, as well as the reflection and guilt of boys as they mature.
After finishing all of this, there is still one final process of "mixing and reducing", which can be simply understood as post-production. This process takes at least two days, and sometimes four or five days or even longer.
This depends on the mixer's personal level, as well as the mixer's schedule, the complexity of the song and other factors.
Through this experience of producing a song, she discovered that it is indeed not easy to produce a complete song.
First of all, in the entire process of producing the arrangement accompaniment tape, the author of the original song, that is, the composer, needs to communicate with the arranger in order to grasp the style of the song and convey the meaning of the song.
Gu Qingge brought You Ruoyu along because they had already communicated beforehand, which could save time and improve efficiency.
After mixing, it also needs to be inspected. If any imperfections are found, modifications need to be made.
After Gu Qingge helped Hao Jie produce "He Doesn't Understand", she also produced her "Lend Me" at the same time.
In order to maintain the mysterious and low-key image of "Yu Meiren", Gu Qingge changed her usual singing style. As a result, in the process, her entry-level vocal skills naturally broke through to the proficient level after the progress bar reached 100%!
After the breakthrough, she actually mastered the skill of "voice changing" or "fake voice".
Almost all professional voice actors have the skill of "voice changing", which means they can have "queen voice" or "loli voice".
As for the big guys who can "fake voices", men can pretend to be girls on the Internet, and women can also make men's voices.
This "voice changing" or "pseudo-voice" technique is actually not difficult. The difficulty lies in how to make the sound more natural.
Gu Qingge's "voice changing" skill is a system product, the quality is guaranteed, and it sounds very natural.
In this way, when ordinary people listen to "Borrow Me" by Yu Meiren, they will definitely not associate it with Gu Qingge.
Gu Qingge studied this "voice changing" skill and found that it could be used to simulate various styles of voices, which was very interesting. She could even sing vicissitudes of life songs with a hoarse voice.
After Gu Qingge's vocal skills reached the proficient level, she thought it would be better to produce "Little Love Song" and "Painting" together.
Mastery-level vocal skills are enough to control them.
She chose to collaborate with Spark Entertainment for these two songs, which surprised the company.
While Gu Qingge was producing her own song, Hao Jie ran into trouble.
Hao Jie was very satisfied with the song "He Doesn't Understand" and decided to use it as the title song for his first album.
As a result, after this news spread, it somehow reached the ears of the second-tier music producer Fang Peng.
Fang Peng is the music producer who stood up Hao Jie.
"Hao Jie, don't you give me, the producer, any face? We agreed that the title song of your first album would be produced by me, but now you are working with a newcomer? Yi Jiangnan is just a little jerk. Does he know the rules of this industry?" Fang Peng pointed at Hao Jie and shouted angrily.
Following behind him was a male singer, who was the third-tier singer who had previously intercepted Hao Jie's song. His name was Zhang Linchuan.
Zhang Linchuan had a gloating smile on his face.
Hao Jie was still young after all, and he couldn't help but complain, "Teacher Fang, even though we agreed on it back then, you gave the song 'Unexplained Love' directly to the person behind you. Why are you blaming me for finding someone else to collaborate with now? Besides, Teacher Yi Jiangnan isn't some jerk. She's an excellent music producer, and I respect her very much."
Fang Peng was a music producer with a very bad temper. He glared at me and said angrily, "You think I'm wrong? Zhang Linchuan is your senior! And what's with that bullshit Yi Jiangnan? I'll make him pay for it! He dared to steal my things!"
Zhang Linchuan pretended to smooth things over, saying, "Teacher Fang, calm down. I definitely won't argue with a newcomer. He chose to work with a new producer because he was forced into it. It's definitely a lousy song that won't be a hit anyway. How can it compare to 'Unexplained Love' that you gave me?"
After being licked by Zhang Linchuan, Fang Peng's anger subsided a little.
However, Hao Jie's expression was slightly different, and he felt secretly happy.
Although "Unexplained Love" is a good song, there is a gap when compared with Gu Qingge's "He Doesn't Understand".
Coincidentally, due to the high efficiency of the production of "He Doesn't Understand", the time when it was released as a single on "Yin Yue Net" coincided with the time when "Unexplained Love" was released!
Hao Jie couldn't help but sneer. He threw down a sentence: "Then let's have a competition."
Then he walked away.
This kind of arrogant attitude with full confidence made Fang Peng and Zhang Linchuan look at each other in surprise. They thought that Hao Jie was crazy. He had always been humble and weak, but now he was so tough. Who gave him the courage?
"Haha, he's dead!" Fang Peng said disdainfully.
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