Create the ultimate with perseverance: Li Jincheng, a well-acclaimed music mixer in the industry

Music mixer is undoubtedly a behind-the-scenes profession, or more accurately, behind the scenes. Why would you say that? We sometimes see some media interviews with music producers, and many excellent producers are familiar to music lovers. However, few people have described the profession of music mixer in detail. For most people who are not music practitioners, the mixer is just a pusher, and many people don't even know what a fader is.

you can hear music or songs every day, and we all know that songs are written by songwriters. Most music lovers also know that songs are not only important for songwriting, but also for arranging songs. But few people know that mixing is also an important job in determining whether a song is good or not. Music can be divided into two situations, one is that the music itself is good, and the other is that the sound of the music is good. This may be a little abstract, for example, we will understand. If a good song is sung by a singer with a poor voice or poor singing skills, I'm afraid you won't feel good no matter how good it is. And a good singer may even perform an otherwise mediocre song to amaze you! The voice in the song is not only the singer, but also many musical instruments, and whether these sounds are good or not, whether they are good together or not directly determines the good listening degree of a song.

Li Jincheng is such a famous music mixer in the industry. He has produced a large number of music works for famous artists and singers such as Li Haiying, Jackie Chan, Han Hong, Xiao Shenyang, sa Dingding, GAI, Huizi and so on. Not only that, he also set up one-to-one mixing teaching in the recording studio, and created a number of unique mixing theories and applications in China in teaching practice.

Today, with curiosity about the industry, I went into Mr. Li's recording studio to explore the mysteries behind the industry.

Li Jincheng's recording studio is called Boy Kingdom Studio (BK Studio for short). These two days, he is remixing a new single by indie musician Leo1Bee. (at the time of this article, the new song has also been released, you can search "the color I see is you"-by the editor.) here, let's introduce the remix industry. The mixer's work has many functions, if you choose the most important one, is to make the dynamics, frequency and space of each sound in the song in the most comfortable state of hearing. Lyrics and songs are created out of nothing, and so is arrangement, and mixing is to show all the ideas that singers and singers want to show. If there is no good mixer, the ideas of many producers will be buried or even destroyed, resulting in a phenomenon that sounds good after mixing and not before mixing.

and Mr. Li Jincheng's remix will not only complete the basic work mentioned above, but also give more emotional spirituality to the music. This is rare for the whole mixing industry.

Mr. Li Jincheng is dedicated to sound performance. He has bought almost all the famous brands of equipment all over the world, just to understand the differences in sound styles of different devices. His persistence is shown not only in his attitude towards each song, but also in the mixing teaching that he has been doing. He will try his best to answer every question of the students, and occasionally encounter questions that he has never thought of. He will start the study of this subject until the results are obtained and told the students. This is why there are so many excellent sound engineers in the industry among his students.

Mr. Li Jincheng also has unique views on the progress of domestic music production in recent years. He believes that in terms of arrangement, there is no gap between China's first-line level and the world's first-line level, and even from some angles, there is a trend of anti-surpassing. In terms of recording, there is still a gap between us and the top international standards. Although the recording gap is also gradually narrowing, but the speed will be slower. However, the industry of master tape processing is basically still a blank in our country, or it is still in its infancy. The reason for the slow progress in recording and master tape processing is that the threshold for learning music arrangement and mixing has now become so low that basically a computer can start learning with a sound card. But recording is not good, students should have a good enough venue, there must be a variety of recording equipment, for example, different voices will use different microphones and different words to play in order to match a good sound. And any good microphone is between 10, 000 and 100, 000, which is not affordable to some beginner learners. This is especially true for good words, with words ranging from 10,000 to 40,000 to 50,000 everywhere. And you can't just have one microphone and one voice player. For example, in Mr. Li Jincheng's recording studio, there are six microphones for the human voice. With these microphones and microphones, you can learn more about their sound characteristics only in the process of using them constantly, so that when you hear a sound, know as much as possible what device should be used to record it in order to get a better sound. But now many beginners start recording with a microphone of one or two thousand or even a few hundred yuan, coupled with a sound card that comes with their own words, but the sound effect of such recording will certainly not be good, and, because there is not enough good equipment, he may not have heard the good voice recorded in the early stage at all, thinking that the good sound is made in the later stage, so he has already lost in the starting line. Master tape is even more so. A set of master tape equipment with sufficient sound quality, such as a compressor, may cost tens of thousands of dollars, and an equalizer costs more than $10,000, and it is not enough for one compression and one EQ, but usually requires at least two or three compression sets before two or three EQ can be used. In this case, a set of master tape equipment alone requires at least hundreds of thousands of yuan, not to mention the monitoring speakers that can be used as master tapes. Without these things, you can't even start learning to be a master.

Mr. Li Jincheng will never compromise on voice, which is the basic principle that he has adhered to for 20 years. It is this persistence that creates the ultimate experience that music brings to the audience. Creating the extreme with persistence is the truest portrayal of Mr. Li Jincheng's career