In the recording studio that was bustling again, all the staff were in place, but Xiao Qian was the only one who was extremely anxious.
He looked at the complacent Lu Bing sitting in the room, feeling bitter in his heart and full of sadness.
Looking at Xia Weizhang, who was carelessly directing everyone to their positions, he couldn't bear it anymore, sneakily approached him and tugged on the other party's sleeves.
"Grandpa, you can't do this? This song has an important purpose. Just playing it with the erhu will ruin it all."
Xia Weizhang snorted, and the tone was quite high.
"Xiao Qian, you don't listen to grandpa anymore? What your grandpa Lu said is right. How are our traditional musical instruments inferior to those of Westerners? Don't worry, with your grandpa Lu's craftsmanship, I guarantee to give you a surprise."
Lu Bing sighed.
"Lao Xia, you still understand me."
Xiao Qian's eyes were full of blood and tears, but she could only choke in her throat.
Although he felt aggrieved, Xia Weizhang was someone he respected extremely, so how could he dare to disobey this elder's wishes?
In the end, he could only close his eyes in pain and simply sit aside, out of sight and out of mind.
Over there, under the auspices of Xia Weizhang, everything was arranged, and the old man personally presided over the recording.
"Lao Lu, are you familiar with the score? I gave you a guarantee in front of my grandson. If you don't get it right, don't blame me for turning against you."
Lu Bing snorted coldly, as arrogant as a peerless swordsman.
"Under my erhu, if you're close, if you're wrong, you'll crush me to ashes."
Xia Weizhang did not continue to argue, waved her hands and shouted: "Everyone is in your place, the recording begins."
With the refined electrofusion microphone turned on and all the equipment in place, Lu Bing's erhu became the only melody in the entire recording studio.
This old guy is arrogant, but he really has the capital to be arrogant. His performance originally required a mixture of various musical instruments, but with just the two strings in his hand, he could actually play it with great waves, which made many people look at him.
Three times in a row, no difference at all, perfect and couldn't be more perfect.
"Okay, it's done. Lao Lu, I didn't say anything about your craftsmanship."
Lu Bing put away his piano, stood up, flicked his sleeves, and walked away.
"Do I need your praise?"
After Lu Bing left, Xia Weizhang called Xiao Qian over and started playing the accompaniment.
"How's it going? Is the rhythm right? Is it exciting?"
Xiao Qian was as wilted as an eggplant beaten by frost.
"So what if it's exciting? The whole song is ruined? That's not what it's about at all."
There were no outsiders this time, and Xia Weizhang suddenly showed a sly smile.
"I said you kid is just stupid. This performance is right here. You can just cut out whatever part you want."
Xiao Qian looked up in shock, her head pounding.
"This...is this okay?"
Xia Weizhang held her chest out proudly, looking as treacherous as Yan Song.
"Why not? Now that the instrument is in your hands, you can use it however you want. If we don't do this, will that stubborn old man Lu Bing play the erhu for us? You don't understand the art of struggle at all.
Humph, if Lu Bing is as stubborn as a donkey, why don’t he have to drink my foot-washing water?”
Xiao Qian's worries turned into happiness, her tears turned into laughter, and she couldn't help but give Xia Weizhang a thumbs up.
"High, really high."
He replaced Xia Weizhang and sat on the console. He cut out the parts he needed by dividing three times, five times, five times and two times. Listening to the extremely perfect performance, his heart finally felt at ease.
Lu Bing played a whole piece of music. In fact, all he needed was just the beginning. Most of the rest was basically useless.
Xiao Qian originally wanted to discard it, but after listening to such a perfect performance, she thought about it and had an idea in her mind, so she simply kept it.
Once the erhu was mastered, other musical instruments became easy. After a month of hard work, Xiao Qian finally finished the orchestration work.
However, during the final mixing stage, he encountered an unexpected problem.
"Mr. Xiao, no. We can't do your mixing."
Xiao Qian was dumbfounded and looked at the fat man with long hair in front of her.
"Brother Six, aren't you the best production studio in the country? Why can't you get it done?"
The fat man's name is Ma Jin, and he is known as Sixth Brother in the world. He once studied music production in France and is proficient in music mixing.
He is also willing to spend a lot of money to build a production studio that is now second to none in the country. He has only one goal, and that is to transcend the depths of flowers and become a holy place for domestic music recording.
Basically, anyone who produces music here in Magic City and is somewhat famous will ask him to mix their music.
Xiao Qian had been very comfortable collaborating with him the past few times. This time, he was naturally asked to mix the music. But Ma Jin couldn't do it here, which was a problem he had never thought about.
Ma Jin smiled bitterly.
"Your mixing requirements for this piece of music are too high. The delay effect and tone processing here require the use of electronic software synthesis. But we don't have this stuff in China at the moment, so it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. In addition, the strong tone of the lead tone is supplemented
, we can’t do it here either.”
This is what Xiao Qian said before, the fundamental factor of the entertainment and cultural industry is actually the difference in technology. If it is technically impossible to achieve, then the final result of the song will be unsatisfactory.
"What should we do?"
Ma Jin also buckled his head.
"There is no other way but to go abroad to do it."
"foreign?"
Xiao Qian thought about it, and that was all she could do.
Three days later, Xiao Qian sat in SM's recording studio.
He was really lucky that he met Lee Soo Man and bought a stake in SM. Now that he encountered technical problems, he could solve them without spending any extra money.
The problem that makes everyone helpless in China is easy to solve when it comes to SM Corporation.
Yu Yongzhen personally helped Xiao Qian with it, and it was done after three strokes, five divisions and two divisions.
"Director, this arrangement is amazing. I didn't expect that traditional Chinese musical instruments can be so effective when placed in the right place."
Listening to the perfect melody, Yu Yongzhen's eyes were shining. He smacked his lips and said hopefully: "Director, such a good song, how about staying here? Our company's first group will debut soon.
If you have a good song, it will definitely become an instant hit."
Xiao Qian shook his head and did not agree.
"The trainees here are basically all male, but you have also heard the melody of this song. It is definitely a girl's song and is not suitable."
Yu Yongzhen just gave it a try, knowing of course that his proposal would not be successful. He was just happy to see a good song.
But Xiao Qian was also curious.
"The company's trainees are about to debut? Is it so soon?"
If his memory is correct, SM's first group HOT debuted in September 1996, nearly two years ago.
Is it too early for Yu Yongjin to mention the issue of debut now?
His doubts were answered by Li Xiuman during dinner.
"Recently, I am seeking to legalize the company, and you are just here, so I want to discuss it with you. What do you think?"
Now Xiao Qian is SM's major shareholder, and his investment ratio is almost the same as that of Lee Soo Man. Therefore, if the company's business model is to be changed, Xiao Qian's opinion is crucial.
With memories of her past life, Xiao Qian naturally knew that SM Company was going to go through this step.
"As long as my shareholding ratio remains unchanged, you can make the decision on everything else."
It seems that Li Xiuman has been planning for the legalization of the company for a long time. He thought about it for a while and then said: "Well... if the company is legalized, it needs to introduce more shareholders. Some of them, their backgrounds..."
Xiao Qian waved his hand and smiled back.
"President Li, I won't ask questions that I shouldn't ask."
Looking at Xiao Qian's insightful eyes, Li Xiuman smiled with satisfaction.
In the Korean entertainment industry, if you want to become bigger and stronger, you cannot do without a decent background. After such a long period of planning and hard work, Lee Soo Man has found a strong enough backer.
The only thing that concerned him was Xiao Qian's opinion.
After all, if the background is too strong, sometimes the people in charge of the company will be in trouble. Unexpectedly, Xiao Qian was so reasonable and the tacit understanding of cooperation made him very comfortable.
After the topic was over, Lee Soo Man said again: "I heard from Director Yoo Young Jin that you came here this time to produce a good song for the singers in China? If possible, can you also take care of SM's group?
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During the day, Xiao Qian had already checked the selection of trainees. There were dozens of trainees at first, but now there are less than ten left.
And among these ten people, five people from HOT are there.
Xiao Qian has seen the results of five people and can be sure that if there are no accidents, the debut of these five people will be a smooth process.
Thinking of this, he nodded towards Li Xiuman.
"Sure, I'm in charge of the group's debut title song."
Xiao Qian smiled proudly when she thought that she might become an ace producer in both China and South Korea.
