Chapter 477

Pick up the stairs, you can hear the sound of iron stairs "bang bang" under the sole of your feet, almost without any effort, you can easily find the target on the second floor.

"Idiot.".

The ironic words hung on the door, turned around and saw the name of the room behind him, "loser", which made Lan Li smile and withdraw his sight. It seems that the reservation is not bad.

When he was about to open the door, he didn't want to, but the door opened first. Lan Li's step suddenly stopped, and a face appeared at the door. At the same time, he was frightened. He took a cold breath and opened his eyes. In such a close distance, he could even see the violently vibrating pupil.

Both of them were stunned for a moment. The sound of chatting in the open space downstairs came to their ears. It was lively but not noisy. On the contrary, the second floor became more and more quiet. After a short silence, the other party chuckled, and the corner of lanli's mouth also outlined a curve.

"If I'm not in the wrong room, that means you're my recording engineer?" Between the eyes, Lan Li responded and said with a smile.

The other person's eyes flickered slightly, his bright smile closed, and he nodded gently, "if George strand didn't lie, then indeed, I'm your recorder."

It's not Herbert Jones who's standing in front of us.

In the sound city of Los Angeles, it was Herbert who recorded "Cleopatra" and "Ophelia" for Langley. Although it was just a short cooperation, the two people had a lot of friction in the studio at that time. Half a year later, the reunion of the two people turned out to be a recording studio, but the meeting place came from Los Angeles to New York.

It can be inferred from the words that Herbert should have received George's invitation to take charge of the recording of this blue ray album. It's just, why? Why did George choose Herbert among the numerous sound recorders? Is it because of the cooperation between Herbert and Langley?

Lan Li was slightly surprised. Just as he was going to continue the conversation, his words were interrupted by the voice coming from behind him. "Why are you all here?"

Turning his head, George stopped, stood on the steps, looked up at the two people, with doubts on his face. Although he asked them, his eyes fell on Lan Li.

If it's Herbert, it's not unusual to arrive at the studio early. As a recording engineer, today's first task is to work with the producer to complete the positioning of the album; But if it's Langley

George also thought that Langley would maintain the usual casual and lazy style. He arrived on time and was lucky not to be late. After all, George knew nothing about Langley's working state on the set.

Langley noticed George's sight, did not hide, did not explain, just simply said, "an accident."

In the face of such an honest answer, George tilted his head, his eyes showed helplessness, and shook his head gently.

Herbert, who was standing by the door, was an acute man. He cut into the conversation with a strong force. "Now that everyone is here, let's start working now." The expression of rubbing his hands fully expressed his initiative, "before that, I'll go downstairs and pour a cup of coffee."

Then, without waiting for their response, Herbert opened the door of the studio completely and trotted down the stairs, leaving only Langley and George in place.

George took another step and walked the last two steps. "To be honest, how many surprises have you left behind?" Without polite greetings, George pushed open the door of the recording room and directly cut into today's theme. His cheerful look came out from his eyebrows. It was not bright, but very shining“ Twenty seven? I don't think that's your limit

Twenty seven songs. This is a list of 27 songs compiled by Lan Li.

For the production of an album, music selection is the first step of the long march. It is an important basis for the success of the album to choose music that meets the artist's style and market demand.

If you choose Justin Bieber's "baby" for Jason mayez, it will be a disaster; Or choose maroon-5's "moves like Jagger" for Nora Jones, the album's performance is expected to be terrible.

This shows the importance of music selection.

If you are a singer who can't compose, then the producer needs to choose from the huge original music library of the distribution company. At this time, the producers with broad contacts and deep background will have the upper hand, because they have incomparable rich resources. Therefore, compared with the producer with outstanding ability, the producer with strong network advantage is always more popular.

But for those singers who can create their own songs, producers need to evaluate the repertoire currently created by artists, and select those excellent songs with commercial potential. Or it's a song that fits the singer's positioning and album style.

Of course, if the style or quality of the self created music does not meet the requirements of the album, the producer needs to go back to another road and contact the distribution company. Not all original singers can fill the whole album with their own creation; Not all producers will give original singers the greatest freedom, let them do whatever they want, and make an experimental album with distinctive personality but no market value.

After confirming that he was going to make an album, Langley compiled a list of his own songs and handed it to George.

For the production of an album, the number of 27 self created tracks is not much. In order to produce an album with 10 tracks, the producer often selects more than 50 or even hundreds of tracks; But to his surprise, George fell into the dilemma of choice - because every song is wonderful!

Even though George was prepared, he was more and more frightened as he browsed through the 27 tracks.

The maturity and wisdom revealed between the lyrics and the melody do not seem to be written by a 21-year-old. The experience of years and the vicissitudes of time have brought the melody into full play. What's more, the talent contained in it is amazing.

George always believed that Langley should be a singer, born to belong to the stage singer.

As for actors? That's a waste of talent! After reading 27 songs, George realized what genius he had met. He couldn't imagine that such a talented singer was working tirelessly for the actor's dream. It's ridiculous.

There are 27 tracks, at least 18 of which are very popular with George. He has the level of recording an album, and he is still the top level; But the problem is that if there are more than ten tracks in an album, the artists will suffer.

The specific reason is related to the royalty calculation of record companies and distribution companies. The explanation is very complicated, even for professionals. But the simple conclusion is that the record companies need to pay two royalties for the albums produced by artists' own tracks, one is for the artists, and the other is for the albums that must be paid for each sale of each song.

The problem lies in the royalties of the album, because the royalties are paid one by one. The more songs, the more royalties. This is obviously not a good deal for record companies and distribution companies, so they ask artists to sign an agreement: record companies only pay royalties for ten songs, and artists will pay the excess.

Therefore, the original singer's album tracks are generally controlled within ten.

What's more, making an album with 18 tracks is almost equivalent to two albums. With the rising cost, the selling price will naturally rise. This will not increase the sales volume, on the contrary, because it is too expensive, the general public will be deterred and the sales volume will be affected. As a result, more money is spent on making albums, but less income. This is a model of thankless.

In other words, to make an album with more than ten songs, artists, record companies and distribution companies are all at a loss. No one is willing to do such a loss making business.

It also means that George has to make a choice. Even if he chooses ten out of eighteen, he has to give up eight. This is a cruel torture.

Langley didn't know the sigh and shock in George's heart. He shrugged and said, "let's finish recording the first album first." As for the future, he can't predict“ So, is 27 songs enough or not enough? If it's not enough, I need to shoot a play first to find inspiration. "

"Enough. Sure enough George said in a hurry, fearing that when Langley turned around, the recording work would be pushed back. "In fact, it was beyond expectation. I eliminated a number of songs, but I still need to continue to eliminate them. This is not an easy job. You can also express your opinion

"I thought it was your job and Herbert's." Lan Li said directly.

"It's true." George nodded in affirmation, "but when most of the tracks meet the requirements, as a creator, you can create an album of your own style according to your own ideas."

For most of the original singers, this is difficult to ascend the sky, not to mention that lanli is a new singer without any experience, which is even more incredible. For this album, George is full of confidence and expectation. Long time no see, really long time no see, this kind of passion glow feeling, not only let him feel the enthusiasm again, and let him feel young again.

After three years of silence, George's life finally brightened up again.

"Where were we?" Herbert's voice suddenly broke in again, with steaming coffee in his hand. He rudely and directly pulled over the chair and sat down beside the sound console. He spread his legs with a golden knife, supported his hands on his knees, and looked at George and Langley with burning eyes. "My personal opinion, the core soul of this album is: Langley hall."