Recently, the "Singer 2024" team has brought phenomenal attention and discussion to the already almost "unplayable" music variety show, creating another new level of music variety show. In addition to the topics of singing content and lineup, one of the biggest highlights of this season is the "Super Live Broadcast". Although there have been variety shows involved in it before, it is unprecedented for "Singer 2024" to make waves like this.
Once upon a time, during the " I am a singer " era, there was a large-scale "car accident scene" when trying to live broadcast the finals. Earlier phenomenal music dramas such as "Summer of the Band" did not achieve live broadcast for three seasons. "Singer 2024" presents The technological innovation not only provides samples for music comprehensive, but also for live music recording and live broadcasting.
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Where is the "super" super live broadcast?
Judging from the live broadcast effects of the first two episodes of "Singer 2024", many people focus not only on the competition of singers' singing skills, but also on whether they are nervous during the performance, and the synchronized multi-screen combination. The so-called The multi-screen simultaneous broadcast and seamless switching live broadcast effect strives for the "fairness" and "authenticity" of economic music variety shows. It is reported that the program team not only tried for the first time to use multi-camera multi-screen simultaneous viewing in a variety show live broadcast, in order to ensure Users have a smooth "senseless switching" experience. The product technical team has adopted self-developed intelligent seamless switching technology, which is the first in the industry to perfectly realize "seamless switching and layout display of multiple windows in various screen forms (including folding screens)". ".
Recording engineer Mr. Ou said in an exclusive interview with Nandu Entertainment that live music live broadcasts are full of various uncontrollable factors. Due to the experience of "online concerts" during the epidemic, the industry has now achieved synchronous audio and video live broadcast reception and transmission. With significant improvements, the "Singer 2024" team has introduced the world's latest "immersive sound art" l-isa sound system, which enables audiences at all locations on the scene to obtain a uniform and unified top-level listening experience and perceive the singer Delicate timbre; in a traditional stereo performance, the "sweet spot" for audio mixing is only 5% of the venue. The l-isa system relies on the innovation of speaker configuration and sound algorithm mapping technology to significantly expand the coverage area of the "best listening position" to 90%, which is a breakthrough innovation in technology.
Mr. Ou also pointed out that high and new technologies have significantly improved the requirements for singers’ professional abilities and the true test of singers’ singing skills, but the presentation of aesthetics, artistry, atmosphere and artistic conception of works has yet to be tested, “even if 'Super live broadcast' is still just a live broadcast, which is not the same as a live live. It is mixed, reverberated and transposed by the equipment. Although the l-isa system sounds very powerful, not everyone watching the live broadcast is qualified. There are corresponding headphones and amplifier systems, so 'super live broadcast' is still a variety show. If you want to experience a more artistic live, you still have to go to an offline live with better sound."
music critic Mr. Liang told Nandu Entertainment that "Singer 2024" is undoubtedly excellent from a technical perspective, but competitive music variety is also a music variety. It is a variety show first. The primary purpose of a variety show is ratings and topicality. Rather than contributing to the music industry or music creation and music presentation, "The advantage of a variety show is that it allows good singers or songs to break out of the circle, such as Deng Ziqi , Zhao Lei 's "Chengdu", the music industry Practitioners can learn technical and marketing capabilities from it, but they don’t have to have too high expectations for the musicality and artistry of the music genre itself. It’s definitely good that the platform and production team are willing to invest heavily in the music genre and pursue changes. Musicians still have to rely on themselves to be 'super'."
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What should you listen to more during super live broadcasts?
Well-known music blogger Erdi believes that the public attention caused by super live broadcasts is mainly focused on the stability, pitch, high pitch and fluency of the sound. Especially for professionals, it is too late to go. Appreciate and think about the arrangement, adaptation and artistic conception of the work; the live broadcast has increased the requirements for the singer's professional ability and the true test of the singer's singing skills, but the aesthetic quality of the work has been downgraded. In other words, in previous years, what was recorded and listened to was "works" ", and live broadcast listens to "expression"; so live broadcast is not suitable for artistic and artistic works, but is more suitable for technical vocal singers.
In an exclusive interview with Nandu Entertainment, senior music critic Aidi also pointed out directly that dating back to the earliest "I Am a Singer", represented by Huang Qishan and Deng Ziqi, they have pushed the treble culture of music singing to a very high level. point, this is actually a technical aesthetic; Liu Huan, Lin Yilian, Xu Jiaying, Wu Qingfeng, etc. who subsequently participated in the program have weakened the high notes and extended the horizontal width and depth of the singing. At the same time, because The emphasis on arrangers and musicians has caused more ordinary music lovers to begin to pay attention to music, instead of focusing only on singers and songs, towards a more diversified direction.
However, in view of the current popular music aesthetic needs and the professional configuration of non-professional music fans, even high-quality and high-tech programs such as "Singer 2024" and Super Live cannot achieve truly high-fidelity restoration, such as live broadcasts. It is a kind of sound effect, and after format conversion and transmission, it is already another sound quality effect suitable for TV or mobile phone playback. Recording engineer Mr. Ou said that it is actually very simple. Professional audio equipment requires professional wires, and ordinary people’s collection The audio-visual environment is simply impossible to achieve. The program team and producers of "Singer 2024" can only take the greatest common denominator and let more ordinary people feel the excellence of technology and singing. This is already a big leap.
Music critic Aidi Ren further pointed out that high technology has allowed singers to add a lot of pad sounds at the concert, so it is reasonable for "Singer 2024" to add reverberation and other technical elements during the live broadcast, and for super live broadcast sites The questioned issues such as delayed tuning and synchronous tuning are actually of little significance. "After being recorded and played back by electronic equipment, the dry voice is also impure. With the development of modern vocal music technology today, it is no longer just singing and dying." When singing, communication with reverb (reverb), communication with musical instruments, and emotional dialogue with oneself are the right way to sing and appreciate vocals."
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Super live broadcast should promote real singing
Erdi believes that large-scale evening parties and programs in the Mainland have been trapped in a "vicious cycle" for a long time - "programs and evening parties are habitually lip-synching - and there is no motivation to improve the technology of real singing" Environment - Singers who insist on singing will become a car accident scene due to poor radio broadcasts - Singers who lip-sync will be ridiculed by singers who praise their stability but sing real - Singers who want to sing real will be timid in the next performance ——More and more singers choose to lip-sync.” Only the technical conditions and environment that promote real singing in the industry can break this vicious cycle.
Whether it is a music variety show or a party, even a large-scale live broadcast such as the "Spring Festival Gala" was once difficult to avoid "lip-syncing" and "delay". Non-live music variety shows require difficult and large-scale sound modification to meet the requirements. Public listening habits. Music critic Mr. Liang believes that a program like "Singer 2024", which has attracted much attention and is popular among the people, can promote live broadcasts and real singing. It will give more people with real singing ability opportunities, and at the same time, in a greater sense, prevent "Lip-synching" and "pitch modification" have also made more people pay attention to real singing, gradually putting pressure on traffic stars who cannot sing live to improve their singing abilities.
Lovers also said that the super live broadcast of "Singer 2024" once again proved that technology is not a difficulty in live broadcast at all, and the audience is not an obstacle or excuse for live broadcast. When all singers no longer need to modify their voices, those who need to do so will naturally be replaced. Eliminated; it is a good thing to improve the professional capabilities in various fields by directly evolving the music comprehensive from the era of audio editing to the live era. Starting from 2024, various music variety shows such as "100percent singer " are trying to open the mic without any modification and one take. This is a higher level both for the music variety show itself and for the music industry. Challenge and push.
As for whether the l-isa system can be used more in live music, recording engineer Mr. Ou said that so far, it has undertaken performances by a large number of famous musicians, bands and opera house symphony orchestras, but because of the high cost, it can be used The number of large-scale tours may be limited, but every new technological innovation will bring more and better live experiences. "Just like "Singer 2024" made many people aware of the gap in singing ability between Chinese singers and foreign singers, We also have more room for improvement at the on-site technical level. From the perspective of broadening our horizons and technical iteration, and even simply singing and performing itself, we still have a long way to go."
wrote: Nandu reporter Ding Huifeng intern Chen Zishan.
