Reborn Star Road

Chapter 11 Buying Equipment
Chapter 13Purchase Equipment
After knowing that the timbre and range of his voice had been greatly improved compared to before, the idea of ​​recording songs by himself immediately appeared in Sun Hao's mind, and he immediately implemented whatever came to his mind. This is what Sun Hao has been doing since his rebirth. principles to follow.

But having an idea is not enough. Sun Hao does not have the equipment to record songs now. Sun Hao thought about recording songs with the Walkman that his father Sun Jianming sold to Sun Hao, but Sun Hao immediately vetoed this idea. It's fine for listening to music, but ridiculous for recording songs.After recording, the noise will be so loud that even I can't stand listening to it, let alone others.

So at dinner at night, Sun Hao proposed to his parents the idea of ​​buying recording equipment at the dinner table.

"Mom, can I discuss something with you?" Since the purchases are all professional equipment and require a lot of money, although Sun Hao is rich, but after all, he is still young, and whether his parents can accept it is still a question.

"Oh? What's the matter with Haohao? Talk to mom." Her mother Huang Shufen was very happy to hear that her son had something to discuss with her.The son has always been very sensible, which parent does not want his child to be able to discuss things with himself?

"Mom, it's like this. I want to buy some music-related equipment." Seeing his father, Sun Jianming, eating without paying attention to himself, Sun Hao said cautiously.

"Didn't Mom buy you a guitar? Why do you still need to buy something?" Mother Huang Shufen said in surprise because she didn't know much about music.

"Mom, the guitar is used for accompaniment and performance. What I want to buy is recording equipment and a computer." Sun Hao said all of them out of his brain because he urgently needed these things.

"Recording things are okay. Mom knows you like music. It's good to record your own songs and listen to them when you're free. But why do you sell and buy computers? Computers are very expensive, besides, do you know how to use them?" Mother Huang Shufen asked in surprise when she heard that her son wanted to buy a computer.

"Yeah, you're still so young and you're only in the first grade of junior high school. What kind of computer do you need? Dad is a teacher now, and the work unit hasn't paid Dad for the computer yet." Father Sun Jianming raised his head and said in support of his wife.

"It's all needed to make music. As you all know, I sang songs I wrote myself in the last competition. It will be more convenient for me to make music after I buy a computer." Sun Hao said earnestly.

"Since my son has said so, let him buy it. It seems that our Haohao has grown up and knows that he is in charge." Touching Sun Hao's head, mother Huang Shufen laughed.

"Yes, Haohao, since you like music so much, just buy it. Your mother and I support you, but don't delay your studies. I will go to the computer city to buy one for you in two days, and I will also take care of it Learn." Father Sun Jianming still attaches great importance to his son's study.

"Father, let me buy it by myself. I also want to buy some music equipment. I won some bonuses in the last competition, so I don't need your money. I will go buy it with Song Chunfeng at that time. I don’t know what I want to buy.” When Sun Hao heard that his father Sun Jianming wanted to buy it for him, he objected, because the computer used to make music is different from the usual home computer, so it’s better to buy it himself.

After repeated negotiations, Sun Hao finally got the consent of his parents.

The next day was the weekend. After being shocked by Sun Hao's guitar skills last time, Song Chunfeng was now convinced by Sun Hao.Early in the morning, Song Chunfeng came to Sun Hao's house as scheduled to be a tutor, but as soon as he entered Sun Hao's house, he was dragged out by Sun Hao.

"Sun Hao, what are you going to do, leave in such a hurry, wait...don't pull me so hard, your clothes will be torn by you. I came all the way to your house, I have to rest for a while Yes." Looking at Sun Hao's anxious look, although Song Chunfeng didn't know what Sun Hao was going to do by pulling him out, he thought it was funny, but he complained.

"Brother Feng, hurry up and accompany me to the computer city." Sun Hao said while pulling Song Chunfeng out.

"Go to the computer city? You don't want to buy a computer, do you? What do you buy a computer for? Do you know that computers are very expensive?" Song Chunfeng was surprised when he heard Sun Hao's words.

"Ah?" Sun Hao was stunned, how could he forget about this matter, it is only [-] years now, the computer is just in the development stage, and the price is much more expensive than ten years later.Unlike later generations, you can buy a good one at a price of three or four thousand. Now the most common computer in this era costs about tens of thousands.

"Then what should I do, Brother Feng? I urgently need a computer and recording equipment for recording. The total prize money given out in the last competition was only [-]." Thinking of this, Sun Hao said a little annoyed.

Seeing Sun Hao's anxious look, Song Chunfeng smiled and said, "Why didn't you tell me about this first? It just so happens that some senior students in our school have gone for internships, and some are selling computers, although they are not the latest ones. Configuration, but it’s almost enough for you to use.”

"That's great." Sun Hao thought, the main reason why he wants a computer is to use it for recording, the main reason is that the sound card should be better. The current recording software is not as demanding as the later generations, and it usually costs [-] more than one GB of memory.Buy an old one now, and go to the computer city to buy a better sound card later.That way there would be extra money to spend on better recording equipment.

Under the leadership of Song Chunfeng, Sun Hao came to the campus in H City.Looking at the familiar appearance of the university where I stayed for three years in later generations.Sun Hao not only sighed.

Under Song Chunfeng's introduction, Sun Hao bought a computer with a low configuration for [-] yuan from his classmate, but this has already satisfied Sun Hao.

Celeron [-]MBHZ CPU, [-]MB SD memory, [-]G hard drive, integrated graphics card. [-] inch monitor.In Sun Hao's opinion, it was also a good configuration at the time.It is also very cost-effective to buy it for [-] yuan.Because the current mainstream configuration is not much higher than this.

After Sun Hao and Song Chunfeng moved the computer to Sun Hao's room, the two rushed to the Computer City again.

Generally, the sound cards on most ordinary computers are integrated, because many people do not have too high requirements for the sound, as long as they can listen to music and play games, there is sound. But for Sun Hao, who is going to record music professionally in the future same.The sound quality can make a big difference to a song.I just want to listen to songs on tapes and listen to songs on CDs.

After picking and choosing in the computer city, Sun Hao and Song Chunfeng finally chose a Yamaha 724F sound card. This sound card was newly launched at the time, and it was enough for Sun Hao’s current requirements. The YMF-[-] audio processing chip, [-] channels.It is already possible for Sun Hao to use it for analog input.

After choosing the sound card, the two walked to "Prince Music Shop".

Walking into Wang Ziqin Store, Sun Hao saw that the fat owner of the piano store was already lying on his chair to rest his mind, looking peaceful and content.

"Cough." Sun Hao coughed, reminding the boss that a guest has arrived.

The boss slowly opened his eyes and saw that it was Sun Hao coming again, so scared that he fell down from the chair with a "gudong".Hastily trotted over.

"Oh my little ancestor, why are you here again?" The fat boss said angrily. It seems that Sun Hao has not forgotten the nightmare of buying a guitar from him at the purchase price last time.

"Hi boss, do you still remember me? I have a good memory, hehe. I will buy some recording equipment when I come to you this time." Seeing the helplessness of the boss, Sun Hao laughed.

"My little ancestor, I won't make any money if I sell you something again. The last time I sold the piano to you at a loss." The fat boss was so anxious that he was about to cry. If you buy something, you don't want to eat, so you just close the door.

"Don't worry, boss, this time it won't be like last time. As long as your price is reasonable and you don't fool me with fake products, you will definitely make money." Sun Hao smiled at the fat boss.

"That's good, that's good." The fat boss wiped the sweat off his face and asked Sun Hao, "Then what do you need to buy?"

Sun Hao thought about some equipment needed for recording.

First of all, you need a mixer, which is the core component of recording.Without it, Sun Hao basically couldn't complete the task of recording.Even though some recording software does not use a mixer, and the sound card that Sun Hao bought just now is equipped with the basic functions of a mixer, it is not as professional as buying a mixer after all.Sun Hao thought that he might need to use a band to record songs in the future, so a mixer is necessary.The second thing you need is monitor speakers. Professional monitor speakers are different from ordinary household HiFi speakers. Even the high-end speakers in expensive civilian home theaters are not suitable for recording songs because they are not standard.So it's not like Sun Hao is saving money on monitor speakers.

Then the most important thing is the condenser microphone. The professional condenser microphone is used in the recording. This kind of microphone is very sensitive and needs 48V power supply.When you need to record and sing, you need to keep a certain distance from the microphone.Generally, one microphone can actually meet the general recording needs. If the space is relatively large, if you want to record chorus, you need more than one microphone.In the current situation, only one Sun Hao is basically enough.

Mic preamps, mic preamps have a lot to do with the sound quality of a song recorded in a room.But a good amplifier is expensive, which made Sun Hao think about it for a long time. Although you can use the gain on the mixer to amplify the signal without buying it, the sound quality is too different if there is a professional microphone amplifier. Far!In order to record a good silver color and effect, Sun Hao decided to buy one.The human voice effector, the human voice effector is mainly to add effects to the recorded singing voice.Although effects can also be added in the software, the sound quality calculated by the software is far less warm and spacious than the sound produced by the hardware.

Headphones, headphones include professional monitoring headphones for sound engineers and headphones for singers.Sun Hao decided to buy a good one for Song Chunfeng, who cooperated with him as a sound engineer, to mix the sound, and bought two ordinary ones for himself to record.Headphone splitter, although the headphone splitter will not have any effect on the sound quality of the recording in the recording studio, it is indispensable.

Because everyone's earphones must be connected to the earphone splitter, otherwise there is no way for the earphones to make sound.A headphone splitter can connect 4-12 headphones.Microphone pop-proof cover, the microphone pop-proof cover is to prevent the singer's breath from spraying on the condenser microphone and produce a "pop" sound.

Microphone stand, talkback microphone The talkback microphone is placed in the control room for the communication between the sound engineer and the singer.Deck deck, this is very necessary, because the cost of recording CDs is too high, Sun Hao does not have the ability to buy such expensive equipment at present, so a deck machine is the equipment Sun Hao needs to record ordinary tapes.

"I need a mixing console, monitor speakers, condenser microphones, microphone amplifiers, vocal effects..." Sun Hao reported the names of a lot of equipment.

The eyes of the fat boss became brighter and brighter following the equipment reported by Sun Hao. It seemed that these things were enough to make the fat boss a lot of money.

"Are you sure you need all these things?" The fat boss was surprised that a child needs so many things.

"Don't you have it here? Then I'll go to another house." Sun Hao pulled Song Chunfeng and turned his head to leave.

"Yes, yes, my little ancestor, don't just leave." The fat boss saw that Sun Hao was about to leave, and hurriedly pulled him back.

"It's good to have it. Among the equipment I mentioned above, the condenser microphone must be good." Sun Hao emphasized.

Because the condenser microphone is the most important part of recording songs, the sound pickup principle of the condenser microphone is to use a very thin gold-plated film as one pole of the capacitor, and there is another fixed electrode separated from it by a few tenths of a millimeter, thus forming a For a capacitor of several P Farads, the thin-film electrode vibrates with the sound wave to cause the capacity of the capacitor to change, forming an electrical signal. Since this capacitor is only a few P Farads (1 Farad = 1000000000P Farad), its internal resistance is extremely high, reaching the level of G ohms (1G Ohm = 1000000000 ohm), so a circuit is needed to convert this G ohm impedance into a general impedance of about 600 ohm. This circuit, also called "pre-amplification circuit", is usually integrated inside the condenser microphone and requires "phantom power supply". to power the circuit.

It is precisely because of the existence of this pre-amplification circuit that condenser microphones must be powered by phantom power to work properly. Condenser microphones plus phantom power generally have high sensitivity, which is much more sensitive than commonly used dynamic microphones.In other words, no matter whether the condenser microphone is used for recording on a computer or other equipment, phantom power is necessary, and the recorded sound will not be smaller than that of a dynamic microphone.So a good condenser microphone is what Sun Hao needs very much at present.

"Sure, sure, just use AudioTechnica." The fat boss said, carrying out all the things Sun Hao needed.After a little calculation, he said, "The total is [-] yuan, thanks for your patronage."

"Do you need me to help you figure it out?" Sun Hao actually didn't know much about the prices of these things, but he told himself intuitively that the fat boss must have calculated too much. More than 7000 yuan.

"Then... count it as your eight thousand." The fat boss sweated again, why did the boy across from him know everything.

"It's only seven thousand. If it's okay, we'll take it away. If it's not, we'll go to another house." Sun Hao said to the fat boss.

After thinking for a long time, the fat boss finally gritted his teeth and said, "Deal!"

(End of this chapter)