American Fortune Life

“ You're in a hall of fame, whoo-hoo... ”

“Cough. ”

Andy hears his treble breaking from listening to his headphones, he can't help but shake his head and lightly cough up to cover up his awkwardness. Although the sound he sings is very different from the sound he normally hears, Andy, who is no longer the first recording, naturally knows that this is due to the studio's special acoustic environment and all the devices used to record it. Simply put, you find your voice dried up, no reverberation, no echo.

But if the treble breaks the tone or something, there's no way to “fool” it. In the studio, those will sound unusually obvious. This is because when recording in the studio, any changes in tone, rhythm, breath, or emotion are recorded without modification.

However, after the recording is complete, the later production process will modify the shortcomings in the performance, make up for them, and strengthen the excellent areas. But after all, Andy can't just be a studio singer, can he?

And everything is two-sided.

Some of the deficiencies can be trimmed in the later stages, but at the same time they may erase the original character of a person's voice. You can't turn into an electronic voice...

“I seem to overestimate my voice a bit. I can't sing this kind of treble at all. It's really a hard wound without learning through a professional system! ”

In Andy's current status, he naturally doesn't need to worry about anything. A lot of people admitted his faults. His voice and singing skills are really not half as bad as those of the real singers. There's no problem with the country music like "500 Miles Away from Home". Once he sings the loud treble that excites QING, he reveals himself.

“It's actually pretty good, keep the breath under control, let's do it a few more times... ”

Andy looked at each other with a strange expression when he heard the recorder's obvious words of comfort. Until he saw the other's face slightly changed, he made a fussy note: “I know your recorder's." Good. Again, ”basically understandable.“ Sing again, what the hell! ”

“No, Mr. Smith, I definitely didn't mean... ”

“Pfft -”

“Pff--”

When he heard Andy's words, a few people in the studio almost sprayed a funny smile, desperately hiding the smile on his face, and the recorder was a hasty hand gesture with a dramatic change of face. The stuttering argument in his mouth was that he had absolutely no such meaning. Although this was the most commonly used subterranean word of their recorder, he could never admit it when faced with Andy.

“Oh, take it easy, I'm just kidding, that's all.” Andy knew that his joke scared him, and he smiled and patted him on the arm to show that he was really just kidding.

Looking at a recorder who didn't know whether to cry or smile, Andy glanced at Max Martin and said slightly, "This treble has to be interpreted with more than a swim edge. To be honest, I really don't have that ability, and maybe it's time to do something else. ”

Max Martin frowned slightly and said seriously, "You mean late tone repair? ”

“Of course not, that kind of way can't fool people, they tear the scene apart, I mean harmonics.” Andy said what he thought.

“Improving the tone of accompaniment, coupled with your powerful voice, is possible...” Max Martin's eyebrows wrinkled tightly, reaching over the vocabulary on the table and restarting his research.

“Perhaps this is a really good idea, and this soprano, interpreted with a female voice, will have an unexpected effect... Wait a minute. A soprano might look sharp, thin, duplex and sum. What do you think?” Cook Harrer, who has been sighing with his eyes, claps his hands and says what he thinks.

Max Martin glanced at each other with no anger, then shook his head with laughter, and Cook Harrell laughed, and Andy looked at what he didn't know, and he asked, “Max, why are you looking at Cook like that? ”

“Oh, Mr. Smith, you don't know, our favorite Mr. Harrer is to add harmony to the song, which is his favorite. ”

After listening, Andy suddenly said with a smile: “Actually, you can really try it. The single female voice really doesn't have that sense of power. The two sopranos go together and you can try it out. If it works well, I just need to find two female singers to work with. ”

“Try it then? ”

“Try it! ”

Try and find two female companions to sing soon, join the female voice duet, re-record, this time Andy did not sing any more broken sounds, but also reflected a sense of power.

Taking the headset, Andy listened to it from the listening headset, and the corner of his mouth lifted, and said to Max Martin, “It worked wonderfully well, but don't have any ambitions, so let's just say that I invited two female singers to work with me. ”

“Has anyone chosen?” Max Martin asks what this album producer has to know.

“Well, that" saysomething "was supposed to be for Cheryl and I to sing, so even if she was one, and that" needyounow, "I was going to invite Shakira to work with her, and I thought it would be fine if the three of us played this song together. ”

Since Andy is going to release the album, naturally he won't let go of the very good Cheryl. As for Shakira, he's been thinking about it for a long time. Of course, he needs to create an opportunity to get along, so that Andy won't waste a lot of things.

Max Martin and Cook Harrell looked at each other, and they all looked at Andy, nodding slightly, and Max Martin first said, "Shakira belongs to Sonny. Is that okay? ”

“No problem, I contacted Shakira directly, I'm sure she wouldn't refuse, after all the quality of the music was there, as for Sony's problem, let Lucien go headache, huh?” Andy dumps the pan directly on Universal Records.

“Well, there's no doubt about Shakira's singing, Cheryl's voice is very distinctive, and the treble should be fine, so let's record a few other songs," Skin, "" WhenWeStandTogether, "and" SomethingJustLikeThis, "which fit your voice perfectly. ”

Now that Andy himself has made up his mind, Max Martin and Cook Harrer will naturally no longer question anything uninteresting, and the two female singers he mentioned are well-known figures in popular music. It's definitely more than enough to work with Andy as an amateur singer, so instead of continuing to grapple with these issues, they started to teach Andy the big man some very good songs later and what to look for when singing.

When it gets busy, time flies fast. At a glance, it's almost dusk, and Andy has been singing very focused for two hours. Although there is a hot and cold air vent in the studio, it's still hot and quiet. To be honest, if this stays for a long time, this closed environment is really very depressing.

“Knock, knock, knock...”

Andy drank mineral water in a large mouthful, used cool water to quench a slightly smoky voice, and constantly dragged his T-shirt fan, hoping to relieve the air conditioning from sweat.

“Hoo--”

“That's it for today. I can't stand it. It's so boring!” Andy drank water and took a deep breath, and he didn't like the dark, sticky feeling of sweating, yet his T-shirt was soaked with sweat at this moment.

“Well, that's enough for today, Mr. Smith. When will you be here tomorrow? ”

“Let me see, if my voice is okay, I'll come back tomorrow morning for two hours. If you're not feeling well, then afternoon. No, it's hot. I'm going to take a shower, please. I'll see you tomorrow.” Andy stopped wanting to stay in the studio for a moment, shook the hands of two producers and a recorder and walked out of the studio.

Seeing Andy come out, Lucien, who was on the phone, quickly said a few words, hung up the phone and said with a smile on his face: "Thank you. ”

Andy shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly: “It's really too hot, especially in the radio room. Although there are vents to change the air, with the lights, it stays too long to hold the heat. ”

“True, but that's no way to do it, because the studio needs that effect, and there can be no noise at all.” Lucien was helpless, too, but that was impossible.

“To tell you the good news, Sonny's got it. You can always invite Shakira over. ”

“Oh? You're moving fast enough.” Andy heard the news and couldn't help but smile and say to Lucien.

“To be honest, this is cheap, Sonny, after all, to work with you. This is definitely a great opportunity for Shakira. I don't deny the popularity of this Latino, but it is still a great advantage to work with you.” Lucien was also a little depressed, and if he could, he really wanted to convince Andy to choose a female singer for Universal Records.

“Oh, so that's it, I want to go, see you tomorrow, and I'll call Shakira and Cheryl as soon as I can and get them to come.” Andy smiled and shook Lucien's hand, escorted out of the house where the studio was located and bent over into an already standby car.

In the cooler compartment, Andy sipped mineral water, took out his cell phone, found Cheryl's phone, and dialed out.

“Hey, it's me. What are you doing? ”

“Shit, you arranged my job, you wouldn't know what I was doing...” On the phone, Cheryl sounded delicate and strange.