Kang recalled Chen Minhao's album, and the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously. She also couldn't wait to give the world a surprise: "Let's talk about the movie "Detective" later. Wu Hongrong sent me a WeChat message this morning. The mastering of your album is finished. If you are okay tonight, we will Now go listen to it.”
Chen Minhao nodded, immediately put on sunglasses and a mask and got ready to go out.
Records sold on the market are all copied from master tapes, and the quality of the master tapes will directly affect the quality of the copies—records.
Mastering, Mastring, is the final touch on an album before mass production. Mastering can balance the volume and texture of the entire record.
The songs in the album are all recorded independently, which often results in some songs having a louder volume and some having a lower volume; some songs have very different joints, while some songs have flat joints. It takes a mastering engineer to unify them.
The mastering engineer will adjust the relative loudness and interval time of the songs in the album to make the connection between the works more natural and soft, so that the listener does not need to adjust the volume back and forth, so that the appeal of every detail of the album can be maximized.
When Chen Minhao and the two arrived at Wu Hongrong's studio, they found that the studio was tightly closed and no one answered the door.
After Kang Hui called Wu Hongrong, he found out that they were both listening to the master tapes with headphones.
Chen Minhao heard the sound of running from inside, and paused in front of the door for a few seconds before the door was opened.
"Chen Minhao, you're here." Luo Tianyi said with a blushing face, "Teacher Wu said that confidentiality measures should be taken and asked us to lock the door."
"It's better to be careful." Chen Minhao said with a smile.
"Well, the album is about to be released, so there can't be any mistakes." Luo Tian nodded, and there was a villain in his heart screaming: Looking at Chen Minhao up close, I feel that he is more handsome than in the movie, wait a minute, do I want to be scared? a photograph.
Chen Minhao stood at the door with a smile on his face.
Luo Tianyi reacted immediately, opened the door and said with a smile: "Come in quickly, you are here to listen to the master tape today."
Chen Minhao nodded: "Well, have you listened to the master tape? How do you feel?"
Luo Tian said as he walked: "Perfect. You will know after you hear it."
Wu Hongrong did not exchange greetings when he saw Chen Minhao, but directly handed him a pair of headphones.
Chen Minhao originally had high expectations for the master tape, but after putting on the headphones, he realized that he was still too young.
It was a very beautiful and touching song before, but now it sounds glossier, fuller and more intense.
Mastring, mastering processing is like a piece of glue. It can have a very good bonding effect on musical instruments and vocals. It can also glue every song in the album very well, so that every song in the album can be smooth and smooth. The volume and sound are unified.
"It's really great!" Chen Minhao looked at the master tape carefully, as if appreciating a work of art.
After hearing Chen Minhao's affirmation, Qian Jinyun immediately took out a colorful cannon from his arms, pulled it open, and immediately sprayed out dozens of colorful strips, ribbons, and colored paper, just like a goddess scattering flowers. The scene was spectacular.
After the master tape is finalized, the next things to do are: determine the cover, find a factory to produce the record, promote and distribute it.
For many musicians in the room, they are only involved in the mastering step, and the rest is not their concern.
When they first participated in the album planning, they were full of doubts: Can the album really be released in September
From the demo of the songs in the album to finalization, arrangement, over-taping, instrumentation, backing vocals, harmony, and mixing, to the finalization of the master tape today, their attitude towards Chen Minhao changed from doubt to approval, and finally to Worship now.
They shook hands with Chen Minhao one by one and said goodbye. Everyone looked forward to working with Chen Minhao again.
"Teacher Chen, be sure to call me again next time you have an album!"
"Teacher Chen, call me next time you have a single! I'm free."
Chen Minhao looked at the dark circles under everyone's eyes, bowed slightly when shaking hands, and said: "Thank you for your hard work, I look forward to our next cooperation~"
After the group had a breakup dinner, Wu Hongrong went to contact the record manufacturer, while Chen Minhao, Kang Hui, and Luo Tianyi began to discuss the album cover.
When people get an album, the music in it cannot communicate with them at the first moment. People's first impression of the album comes from the picture on the cover.
The album cover creates a cross universe between vision and hearing, making the beating notes become another language system.
Some singers do not use their own photos as album covers, but Kang Hui and Luo Tianyi agree that Chen Minhao is wasting his resources by not using his own photos as album covers.
Chen Minhao knew that it would be useless to fight against this face-judging world, so he contacted Li Li directly and planned to let this vicious photographer shoot his cover.
Li Li was more cheerful than Chen Minhao imagined, and he agreed to talk about the album's style and appeal the next day.
Kang Hui said to Luo Tianyi lightly: "I once brought an artist with me, and he and Li Li had some minor misunderstandings, which caused Li Li to have some slight prejudice against me. So, Li Li will come over tomorrow At that time, Tianyi, you were next to Chen Minhao, pretending that you were Chen Minhao’s agent.”
Luo Tianyi was a little confused, but he nodded happily.
Early the next morning, Li Li appeared at the door of Chen Minhao's Kyoto studio wearing a black peaked cap.
Chen Minhao went to pick him up at the door in person. Li Li glanced at Chen Minhao up and down: "Don't relax on your body and skin just because you have a good foundation. Your appearance is really good. Stay up late and don't waste your life. I'm sorry." Your parents."
Chen Minhao nodded and took Li Li into the company's conference room without saying anything.
Luo Tianyi poured two glasses of water for Chen Minhao and Li Li, and said with a smile: "Hello, I am Chen Minhao's manager Luo Tianyi. Chen Minhao's album is called "Farewell", the style of music."
Li Li interrupted and said, "You don't need to introduce the album, I can listen to it myself."
Luo Tianyi couldn't decide to pay attention for a moment and looked directly at Chen Minhao.
Chen Minhao nodded slightly to Luo Tianyi, then smiled and said to Li Li: "No problem, but my agent just told me that you must be on guard against others. If you want to listen, you must sign a strict confidentiality agreement protocol."
Li Li looked at Luo Tianyi and snorted coldly: "Use the heart of a villain to judge the belly of a gentleman."
Luo Tianyi was confused: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing
Chen Minhao explained with a smile: "My agent did this for me, I hope you can understand."
Li Li's face looked a little better. He paused for more than ten seconds and said, "Okay, for your sake, I'll sign."
Luo Tianyi excused himself to go to the bathroom and dialed Kang Hui's number in the company's phone room: "Sister Kang, where is the paper version of the confidentiality agreement you asked Li Li to sign yesterday?"
Kang Hui didn't react: "What did I say yesterday? The confidentiality agreement that Li Li signed?"
After Luo Tianyi briefly recounted the conversation between the three of them, Kang Hui immediately said: "I will ask the legal affairs department to make a confidentiality agreement for Li Li now, and then send it to you."
Luo Tianyi had already guessed the truth of the matter. After being silent for more than ten seconds, he said to Kang Hui: "Sister Kang, thank you for your hard work."
Kang Hui recalled the blame he had shouldered over the years and said, "I'm used to it."
(End of chapter)