Stop Wasting Studio Time: What Artists Need to Know Before Recording

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Quincy Murdock: If my camera, I got stuff on the charger, man. I had to get near an outlet. Everything was dying, man. Wrong time, like, dang.

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Quincy Murdock: So had to run to an outlet, get all this stuff. I'm good, though. Locked in. All right.

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Duan Barrino: Here we go.

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Duan Barrino: What's going on, y'all? Not Just Music Podcast, back at it again. Let's get straight into this little situation here. So I found a little trivia question. It wasn't trivia, but I just want to see how people would react to this question.

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Duan Barrino: Because there is a wrong answer. It's actually not a right answer. We know there is a right answer, but there's a bunch of wrong answers that could go for this question.

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Quincy Murdock: Thank you.

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Duan Barrino: So bring it straight up. Question is, would you rather spend $200 practicing or $200 wasting studio time? That's the question.

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Duan Barrino: I'm going to ask Q the question again. Would you rather spend $200 practicing or $200 wasting studio time?

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Quincy Murdock: You know why that's funny right man oh.

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Quincy Murdock: Sheesh. How about neither? Neither. Neither. I mean, I don't like wasting money at all, man. Like, if I had to be honest, neither. Is that an answer?

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Duan Barrino: An answer.

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Quincy Murdock: Okay. Yeah.

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Duan Barrino: That's a good answer.

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Quincy Murdock: Can I explain why?

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Duan Barrino: That's not a bad answer. That's not a bad answer at all.

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Quincy Murdock: Mainly.

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Duan Barrino: That's what joke your mentor will tell you. No, neither one.

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Quincy Murdock: Cause I cause and I let me can I explain can I explain why and mainly because I.

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Duan Barrino: Because don't want to waste. Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: Because I invest a lot of effort into everything that I do you know I think any artist or person that puts a lot into their craft and actually make an honest living, go to work and make that money to invest into a brand, especially if you're independent, you ain't got no label or nothing.

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Quincy Murdock: Yes, they're probably gonna take it personal if they lose out on anything. And most times it ain't even just about the money. It's about the art. [Unclear] Who wants to waste time in a studio, you know, and not get anything accomplished and waste money? Or a bad gig didn't go through. So I think that's why a lot of artists, like, to me, I take it to heart. It's the money and it's the opportunity, you know? I take it to heart.

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Duan Barrino: So I'm gonna push it, I'm gonna push in and that's exactly ah good understanding. The studio, this is the situation. The studio can't fix a bad song.

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Duan Barrino: Studio cannot fix a bad song. There's a lot that goes along with asking a question, would you rather spend $200 practicing? Or $200 wasting studio time. Basically, it's almost the same exact thing.

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Duan Barrino: That's basically what the question is saying. It's the same exact thing. You go to a studio, you can create a bad song easily just by unfinished lyrics, not knowing the structure of the song, you know practicing before you book studio time is very important.

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Duan Barrino: That just makes total sense. It's not like a mad scientist saying, hey, you've got $200 of waste, you got $200 of waste, but don't waste $200 on studio time.

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Duan Barrino: Don't waste $200 practicing. You know, That's a waste of time.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: That you gotta You gotta make it make sense. Let's keep moving. So another thing, when you go to the studio, you want to see,.

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Duan Barrino: Many new artists are recording to YouTube beats. And let me...

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Duan Barrino: Let's talk about this real fast, real short, real quick. So you have to understand that there's licensing that goes along with music.

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Duan Barrino: It's a very critical situation. Talked about it before. But I got to bring it up again because it's necessary. It's very critical to understand.

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Quincy Murdock: And I got a question for you after do the answer to this.

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Duan Barrino: Licensing comes along with you with these YouTube beats that just randomly go grab. Thing is, you want to buy or lease it. You know, There's always a link somewhere around that beat.

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Duan Barrino: Click that link on it. Go over to wherever that beat is and license it properly so you're not sitting there at the finish line with this great music and it has no licensing behind it.

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Quincy Murdock: Cut in, cut in. Can I ask your question? Because it's going into what you've done.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: Okay. Say if you're our artist and a producer just randomly sends you beats.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: You can tell he's a producer, but he just sends you beats. You don't know if this beat is whatever. You just know he sent you this beat. Question to you is and the people that's here out there is wanting to know this how do you discover if it's a legit beat or if it's not legit.

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Duan Barrino: Ooh, always there. Here's the theory. Theory always just tells you to just go on any situation that basically can read audio.

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Duan Barrino: One of the biggest ones you can go on YouTube. That's one, one, one way you can just play the beat. And if you got two phones, something to the nature of, or a radio to where you can play audio and have your phone in your hand and be able to hit your Google, go over to Google.

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Quincy Murdock: You can ask [unclear], "What song is this?" Yeah.

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Duan Barrino: Google, just go to, there's a few ways. Google, once you let Google listen to it, if Google sees it and hears it and it pulls up a song, that's a problem.

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Duan Barrino: That's a red flag. Another way. Go on to, ah what is it called? Shazam. I don't know if Shazam is still a thing. If you go on Shazam, hit that little thing, play the music, hit that thing on Shazam.

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Quincy Murdock: Yeah.

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Duan Barrino: If music comes up, that's problem. That's a problem. It's a red flag. Another way. Ah. What's the other way? What's the other way? There's one more my mind.

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Duan Barrino: But if I'm mistaken, it's so it's a certain way you can do it on YouTube as well. And with Google pulling up with Google, sometimes ah it links those YouTube songs that's on YouTube in as well.

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Duan Barrino: But the biggest thing is what you don't want to see is somebody else on their songs.

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Quincy Murdock: Hey, run them beats, man, I sent you today, man.

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Duan Barrino: That's.

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Quincy Murdock: Run them through. This.

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Duan Barrino: True. Wow. Oh, man.

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Quincy Murdock: Hey, man, it's good info, man. Like, yeah.

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Duan Barrino: So keep your, desk it that goes along with keep your receipts then. So keep your receipts to these folk that's sending y'all these beats. Make sure you, yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: Sometimes free is too good to be true, you know?

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Duan Barrino: Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: That's why I'm like, I mean, dang, you know, and wrote songs to them.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: I done got right with them. Like you say, I would hate the finish line, boom, and red flag, denied.

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Duan Barrino: We don't need that. We don't need that, man. That's why, yeah, keep your receipts, the emails that they sending you, and you know make sure that they're understanding what they didn't send in that email. It's anything to do with licensing.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah. Look.

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Quincy Murdock: And you'd be surprised how many people done got scammed off beats, man.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: Put money into it another that real because starting your question would you rather go ahead.

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Duan Barrino: Like not look, look, not even just the beat, not even just the beat, just the sound, just a sound a single sound, just one little snare hit.

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Duan Barrino: People done, man, bros, people will trip out over just one sound.

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Quincy Murdock: And you pay money for that just one sound.

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Duan Barrino: They feel this theirs, bros. This one little tiny snare hit, a hand clap.

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Duan Barrino: They trip, bro. They will trip if they know it's theirs and there's something behind there's some value till they feel like, oh, that's mine? Oh, yeah. They'll try to get you, man. So make sure you keep your receipts.

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Duan Barrino: Um and this And this is especially relevant since, you know, independent artists don't all the way understand the music business and the business behind some of the music, man. Got to throw this stuff out there.

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Duan Barrino: You know, I ain't trying to have nobody drown over nothing stupid. Again, like I was saying, learn your song before you go. That's big, man. See, the thing is you can you could push out certain emotion when you know the song.

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Duan Barrino: The delivery is different. You know, The confidence be like, you know you can't even reach up there and grab it with your head. That's how high your confidence is. You know that's how you That's how you build that before you get there with that song.

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Duan Barrino: And you go in there like, man, look, man, I'm about to go this.

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Quincy Murdock: Least you got 50 you know instead of going in there with zero percent like you say start from scratch.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah. Yeah. And it's like,.

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Quincy Murdock: And I rather I rather, honestly, like when we talking about this, I rather producer a producer starting from scratch is more helpful and more strategic than an artist.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah. Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: I feel like an artist, as an artist, you don't never want to go in there on 0%.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah.

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Duan Barrino: No.

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Quincy Murdock: You want to go in there, like you say, familiar with your song. You want to go in there with the energy, how you gonna sing it, how you gonna deliver it, the times you're gonna jump in, you're gonna lay off. You know, you want to know all of that. That's why in the previous episode, when we just shot Not Just Music, I told y'all my process. You know, pull your phone out. Like my brother Duan said, you got two phones, put the beat on one phone, play it, pull your phone out, pull that camera open, sing that, freestyle that song so you have it. You know what I'm saying?

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Quincy Murdock: Then go back, listen to it. It might be something that you feel like, Okay, I can replace this word, I can tighten this up.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: That's when you do your writing process. So that's just a plan that strategic, can't tell right now, plan that I know that I use now you know as a songwriter.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: And it's helpful.

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Duan Barrino: And with what he just said with what he just said, that's how great that's how great takes come from that.

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Quincy Murdock: It's helpful.

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Duan Barrino: Great performances while you in the studio. Just because you was taking the time to strategically play it and listen to it and hear your flaw and hear the things that you could change and make it make sense before you get there.

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Duan Barrino: All that this counts.

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Quincy Murdock: Yep.

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Duan Barrino: This is what makes it better. So let's keep moving. Knowing this, too, that pushes us into what we talked about just on NJMP Beats Podcast. Recording isn't just singing and rapping. One of the biggest things is a complete vocal recording usually includes main vocal, doubles, ad-libs, harmonies, and punch-ins. Great recordings, hear what I said, usually come with that complete vocal recording situation.

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Duan Barrino: You want to leave so much that's going on to where if there was a mess up, you had a backup for that mess up.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: Don't ever leave yourself with just one situation of a recording when you could have had like four or six or 10 or 20.

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Duan Barrino: Whatever your Whatever your magical number is, go for that.

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Quincy Murdock: You can never have too much keep that mindset you can never do too much.

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Duan Barrino: Go for that. It's another piece I want to add to that. That brings up save everything. Save everything.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: You know, that don't even if even the mess ups. Just save the mess ups. Ah. It's nothing wrong with keeping the mess ups. Because sometimes mess ups have a little look gold in it.

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Quincy Murdock: You might have that one perfect spot in that mess up that you can edit that out, put it into the official, the final version of that song.

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Duan Barrino: Yep.

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Duan Barrino: It could be gold.

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Quincy Murdock: You might have hit a note, two words perfectly and messed up the last of that line. You know what I'm saying? That rhyme or that song. I So,.

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Duan Barrino: Literally like you said could be gold it could be gold within there somewhat it could be one word it could be a half of a word it could be a phrase it could be you took the right breath so that breath could be added in between it's literally little things so what things do I mean by that it just you know keeping copies of the session files WAV files stems instrumentals a cappellas mixes masters All that stuff goes along. It's not for the sake of saying that you have to always have it on hand, but the reason being, the person that is manipulating files needs to have some type of access to it, to where, again, is if there was a mess up, you got plenty backup stuff.

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Duan Barrino: So it's basically like you know losing a finished you know losing a finished product is heartbreaking. I've done it. Listen, back in, I'm going to tell the story real fast. Back in 2003, never forget, back in 2003, bro, sitting on the computer in the apartment, chilling, you know, just having a good day, you know, looking at all these files, paying attention to all these stuff, just looking at songs, and I'm moving files from one computer to a drive.

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Quincy Murdock: Yeah, tell it. Tell it.

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Quincy Murdock: You told me this. Don't hear it.

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Quincy Murdock: Mm-hmm.

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Duan Barrino: And the drive just out of nowhere just went, didn't come back up. I mean, I'm talking like I'm sitting there unplugging it, plugging it back up.

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Duan Barrino: It didn't come up. This was one of the most.

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Duan Barrino: This was my first heartbreak. I probably had maybe 30, 40, 40. Thirty forty pieces of song, beats, anything to that nature, all on a CPU, trying to move them and back them up.

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Quincy Murdock: On your CPU. On your CPU. Mm.

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Duan Barrino: And the case of trying to back them up went downhill. The reason why I'm throwing that out there is just because the case of just getting the habit of what the new technology brings, meaning, you know, there's digital situations. Oh, you know, all of these drives that are online now and you automatically can save it right as you're creating it.

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Duan Barrino: So get in the habit of making files that are backing up into a cloud, whatever cloud it is. I use OneDrive. I use Google Drive. I use ah iCloud.

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Duan Barrino: I use... I mean, there's three that I know, and I'm paying for these every year just because I'm that picky about my backups. I have to make sure that everything is there because there's nothing like that.

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Quincy Murdock: And the thing about this, imagine you having to make that call to that artist saying whole album just been real.

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Duan Barrino: There you go. That's the truth. That's a real life.

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Quincy Murdock: You like we supposed to understand that you know what saying like respectfully you should understand if we if we lash out like it's painful like it goes back to the question you asked in the beginning that's wasting 200 bro come on man we don't want to do that artists are serious about our stuff man we are not going to take likely to losing anything you know.

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Duan Barrino: Yeah.

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Duan Barrino: Yep.

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Duan Barrino: Yep.

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Duan Barrino: Yep.

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Quincy Murdock: But some losses let me add this some losses bring great blessings some losses are not losses some losses you might it's a blessing come out of that might be a connect might be a less yeah a lesson might be an even greater hit like something hey let's do it again that son that version might come out better than the one he raised.

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Duan Barrino: You learn, you learn. Yeah.

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Quincy Murdock: So that's how I try to look at things now. Like, don't look at things as like losses. Look at Look at them as lessons and blessings, you know, a blessing that's awaiting and a lesson. You learn from it.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: It's never lost.

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Duan Barrino: Another thing. Take care of your voice, y'all. Yeah I hate I hate talking about this one right here.

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Quincy Murdock: That's important.

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Duan Barrino: Oh. One of the most disappointing things I see is rappers and singers not taking their vocal cords serious enough.

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Quincy Murdock: Hmm.

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Duan Barrino: And I mean... You don't ever want to put your, I mean, I'm trying to figure out how you, what's the, what I can't think of the same, but for the sake of just think about this.

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Duan Barrino: Imagine somebody just come up and choke you out of nowhere, right? They just come out of nowhere and choke you. You know that they could choke you so bad to where they could choke a party on vocal cord to where you can't sing and rap like you used to?

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Quincy Murdock: Can I tell you something, bro? I had a dream.

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Duan Barrino: Go ahead.

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Quincy Murdock: I had a dream. The day before I shot, we did, this is called my learn song for the singing version. I had a dream that I lost my voice, bro.

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Quincy Murdock: I put on everything. I had a dream I lost my voice. And I felt like that was my wake up call, like, No, you ain't making no excuses. You going to the studio queue, you got something.

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Quincy Murdock: Because I'm like, now I'm thinking like, man, I want to get all the songs in while I still have my voice.

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Duan Barrino: Hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: That's what you think as an artist. Like, while you still have your voice and you're still able and capable of doing it, do it. Because as you just said you might wake up one day, voice gone.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: Like doc the dude doc from nwa you know um dre brother like might wake up your voice might change you're not gonna have that golden voice so if god has given you a gift that's motivation to go get it while you can when you can you got that song ready go do it because we don't think about that part what if what if god takes a away the gift what if he takes away the talent.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Duan Barrino: Nope.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

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Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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Quincy Murdock: And then it's going to be a lot of what wish, woulda, coulda, shoulda. What I'm saying? So don't be that person. And I'm glad that I'm cautious now. Like, yo, I got to, you know, who knows? My voice might go or this could go. I could lose my life or any. You got to think like that, man. Tomorrow might not happen for you to do that goal, that plan that you've been wanting to do.

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Quincy Murdock: So do it now.

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Duan Barrino: And this is something to add to that situation about your voice. These are things that you can do before recording. Drink water. And I'm not talking about like freezing cold water, not something that's super cold, something that's lightweight, room temperature.

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Quincy Murdock: OK. You can type this all in.

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Duan Barrino: I mean, you can get it cold. If you got a cold, let it sit for a little while. You don't want it to buy like really freeze your vocal cords over. Another thing, get some sleep.

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Duan Barrino: Stop staying up all night, singing, practicing. That You should have did all that days and weeks and months of it.

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Quincy Murdock: Oh, man.

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Duan Barrino: Get some rest.

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Quincy Murdock: OK.

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Duan Barrino: Go to sleep. Sleep all the day before if you can, if you want to. Try to get a lot of sleep. Your vocal cords need it. Another thing, avoid yelling.

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Duan Barrino: Avoid yelling. Your baby daddy, your baby mama, they can wait till later.

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Quincy Murdock: Stay out of my business, man.

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Duan Barrino: After you get out of the studio session, they can wait. Listen, you ain't gotta holla and scream with them all day.

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Quincy Murdock: Them girls them girls and females but hey like them boxers say they stop having sex the night before uh like when they start training for a fight they say they stop having the same way sometimes it's like that dude man like to like that too like you have to really lock in.

00:21:32.280 --> 00:21:36.550
Duan Barrino: Great.

00:21:36.550 --> 00:21:44.410
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:21:44.410 --> 00:21:59.240
Duan Barrino: Yeah, get rest. Get rest. Let me tell you, the only time your voice should be seeing much of you is when it's time to warm up when you get there.

00:21:59.240 --> 00:21:59.770
Duan Barrino: Warming up, man.

00:21:59.770 --> 00:21:59.880
Quincy Murdock: I'm sorry.

00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:01.530
Duan Barrino: And what I mean warm up, I mean, what I mean warm up, go.

00:22:01.530 --> 00:22:12.660
Quincy Murdock: Thanks.

00:22:12.660 --> 00:22:18.890
Duan Barrino: Da.

00:22:18.890 --> 00:22:30.780
Duan Barrino: Like, go through all of these tones.

00:22:30.780 --> 00:22:41.750
Duan Barrino: Do all of this stuff to wake those vocal cords. You can't just go straight to singing right away. You got to let it, you know, you got to let it get there.

00:22:41.750 --> 00:22:42.040
Duan Barrino: But the biggest thing is what I'm trying to say is you don't want a tired voice.

00:22:42.040 --> 00:22:47.290
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:22:47.290 --> 00:22:51.740
Duan Barrino: I mean, so you literally can't, you cannot fix a voice that is tired. Say it again.

00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:52.030
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:22:52.030 --> 00:23:05.020
Duan Barrino: You cannot fix a voice that it is tired. It is no way to fix it. You got to let it get sleep. You got to let it. I mean, you got to shut up. Mean, shut up. Don't call nobody. Just sit there and chill.

00:23:05.020 --> 00:23:13.140
Duan Barrino: Just chill. Don't say nothing to nobody. Watch TV. Watch whatever. I mean, if you already recorded your song on your phone, listen to that. That's your practice. Your brain takes you.

00:23:13.140 --> 00:23:16.150
Quincy Murdock: But it really counts in that studio. You got one shot.

00:23:16.150 --> 00:23:19.360
Duan Barrino: Yes. Yes. You want to make the best of it. Make the best of it.

00:23:19.360 --> 00:23:19.830
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:23:19.830 --> 00:23:31.800
Duan Barrino: You know? Make the best of it. Another thing. Let's keep moving. Um. We almost done. Trust your engineer. You know? It ain't saying listen to everything your engineer say. You know?

00:23:31.800 --> 00:23:41.140
Duan Barrino: It's just the don't fight everything. You know, every recommendation. Sometimes the engine is really telling you something that's gold. That's.

00:23:41.140 --> 00:23:44.590
Quincy Murdock: Cause they hear what you might not hear. You gotta think of it like that.

00:23:44.590 --> 00:23:45.580
Duan Barrino: True. If they say re-record, if they say re-record, re-record.

00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:50.280
Quincy Murdock: They hear what don't hear.

00:23:50.280 --> 00:23:50.440
Duan Barrino: If they say re-record,.

00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:55.420
Quincy Murdock: Hey bro, anytime you tell me something, what I do? Um. I don't argue with you bro.

00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:56.570
Duan Barrino: No, you don't. No, you don't.

00:23:56.570 --> 00:24:02.700
Quincy Murdock: Yeah, and plus it's who you trust too. It's no is's having that trust in who you're working with too.

00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:03.240
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.120
Quincy Murdock: Knowing like if that, that you know, that producer is certified, that producer is experienced, polished.

00:24:07.120 --> 00:24:10.170
Duan Barrino: Yep. Yep. Yep.

00:24:10.170 --> 00:24:19.480
Quincy Murdock: Now, if you're working with a janky, yeah, I understand. But if you're working with a polished producer, that makes a lot more sense. And that makes this more understandable.

00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:19.540
Quincy Murdock: Ah. You want to listen. Take it to heart what they say. They You know, it's not it's not bad criticism for them to want the best out of you and get the best out of you.

00:24:19.540 --> 00:24:27.440
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:28.260
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:24:28.260 --> 00:24:31.590
Quincy Murdock: So, yeah, listen to them.

00:24:31.590 --> 00:24:44.950
Duan Barrino: I got an example. Hold on. Let me get something. Let me pull this out. I got an example. So for the next one. Yeah.

00:24:44.950 --> 00:24:50.170
Duan Barrino: Here we go. So.

00:24:50.170 --> 00:25:08.760
Duan Barrino: This thing right here, y'all. This thing right here. This, this thing is killing y'all in every position of whether if it's live shows or recording in a studio.

00:25:08.760 --> 00:25:09.170
Duan Barrino: You have you have some different situations what go on with this thing right here.

00:25:09.170 --> 00:25:17.140
Quincy Murdock: Don't do it don't do it don't do it I think you're gonna do it don't do it what is it.

00:25:17.140 --> 00:25:24.890
Duan Barrino: They one of the biggest things is covering this thing right here.

00:25:24.890 --> 00:25:26.740
Quincy Murdock: And.

00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:29.110
Duan Barrino: Let me see if I can get it to focus on that. Covering.

00:25:29.110 --> 00:25:33.110
Quincy Murdock: Not where not where the noise go not where your voice goes in picks.

00:25:33.110 --> 00:25:37.100
Duan Barrino: Covering this thing right here.

00:25:37.100 --> 00:25:39.670
Quincy Murdock: Ain't got nowhere to answer your voice, no.

00:25:39.670 --> 00:25:43.350
Duan Barrino: A lot of y'all don't understand when you cover this up.

00:25:43.350 --> 00:25:48.810
Quincy Murdock: That top ring, above that top ring, most importantly, that top ring right there, that's why that ring is there.

00:25:48.810 --> 00:25:59.380
Duan Barrino: Y'all love to grab about this much of a microphone, so I'm going switch my hand up. Y'all love to do this.

00:25:59.380 --> 00:25:59.700
Duan Barrino: You see the grip?

00:25:59.700 --> 00:26:03.190
Quincy Murdock: Make it even worse, bro. Put Cuff the whole thing. Like, where's a tiny hole in the...

00:26:03.190 --> 00:26:16.670
Duan Barrino: Well, if even if it is this is, you've already killed yourself there. With that much, you're killing yourself. So anything tighter, you're killing it even more.

00:26:16.670 --> 00:26:18.710
Quincy Murdock: Hey, that's the baby right there. That's boozy.

00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:18.990
Duan Barrino: So most people don't realize though why it is so important to keep your hands away from a microphone.

00:26:18.990 --> 00:26:30.380
Quincy Murdock: That's boozy on him.

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:42.260
Duan Barrino: Considerably dynamics are one of the main things that is hard to see. Let me show you why. And Look at this. So if you take this off,.

00:26:42.260 --> 00:26:54.260
Duan Barrino: You see that this microphone is exposed now. There is no situation of anything, picking up anything here around this microphone, nothing.

00:26:54.260 --> 00:26:59.130
Quincy Murdock: So basically below the ring, like anything above that ring part is where it's picking up the voice rhythm.

00:26:59.130 --> 00:27:11.460
Duan Barrino: Putting it side by side, you can see exactly what's going on. So if you grab this, you've ah look how much of the microphone you're covering up. This is the only thing that's picking up in this microphone.

00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:22.710
Duan Barrino: That's the only thing that's picking up. So if you choking it, you choked it all way over the top. You can't hear yourself once this mic starts and they start, when you start your set.

00:27:22.710 --> 00:27:30.040
Quincy Murdock: So let me ask you a question. So any can you hold it briefly a little bit under that ring? Like you see where ring is?

00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:34.840
Duan Barrino: Safe is here. This is safe. This is safe.

00:27:34.840 --> 00:27:35.580
Quincy Murdock: Yeah, that's what was gonna ask you.

00:27:35.580 --> 00:27:36.040
Duan Barrino: Yeah, that's safe.

00:27:36.040 --> 00:27:39.160
Quincy Murdock: Yeah, because that's typically that's how I hold it.

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:39.540
Duan Barrino: Yeah.

00:27:39.540 --> 00:27:43.800
Quincy Murdock: If I'm not holding all way below to the my ah the speaker, um. I hold it like that.

00:27:43.800 --> 00:27:45.710
Duan Barrino: Yeah.

00:27:45.710 --> 00:27:49.720
Quincy Murdock: How you got I like I always remind myself to hold it below the ring.

00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:50.620
Duan Barrino: Yeah.

00:27:50.620 --> 00:27:55.580
Quincy Murdock: Because that ring reminds me not to go above that. That's so honestly what I do.

00:27:55.580 --> 00:28:02.860
Duan Barrino: Yeah. So in another situation too, with studio microphones, it's a little different. You don't have it in your hand. The thing is you want to keep a consistent distance from the microphone if you're in the studio.

00:28:02.860 --> 00:28:07.860
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:28:07.860 --> 00:28:08.120
Duan Barrino: You know, avoid shouting directly into the mic unless it's a situation, you know, performance calls forward, you know, even with this situation.

00:28:08.120 --> 00:28:18.550
Quincy Murdock: Thanks.

00:28:18.550 --> 00:28:22.520
Duan Barrino: Ah. This is a safe distance right here. This is safe. You can, as I always try to say, if you can put your hand in between your face, this is a safe distance.

00:28:22.520 --> 00:28:25.300
Quincy Murdock: OK.

00:28:25.300 --> 00:28:28.240
Quincy Murdock: OK. Yeah.

00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:44.660
Duan Barrino: That's safe. That's safe. You know, Anything else, you're going start to make it distort. The closer you get it to your mouth, the louder it's going to be and it's just going to sound distorted. So if I was getting closer and closer to my microphone like this, it's going to sound like it's distorted.

00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:49.080
Duan Barrino: That's what you don't want to do. You won't want that to be the case.

00:28:49.080 --> 00:28:49.400
Quincy Murdock: Yeah.

00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:58.830
Duan Barrino: Because they say good mic technique can dramatically improve even just a live show or record. Great mic techniques.

00:28:58.830 --> 00:29:00.440
Quincy Murdock: You know what I might start doing, bro? I might start, when I perform, I might start using the mic holders, like the stands.

00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:07.450
Duan Barrino: What's that?

00:29:07.450 --> 00:29:14.700
Quincy Murdock: You stick the mic in. Especially when I'm doing oh. I'm in my slow R&B side, when I'm on my R&B side of things. Ah.

00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:15.510
Duan Barrino: Yep.

00:29:15.510 --> 00:29:20.290
Quincy Murdock: Yeah, I might my next show, I might incorporate the mic stand. You know what Like, yeah.

00:29:20.290 --> 00:29:28.470
Duan Barrino: Yep. Dude. So let's get to the ending. Now this is the bonus part right here. Gonna call this. This is bonus.

00:29:28.470 --> 00:29:28.600
Quincy Murdock: We got y'all two words.

00:29:28.600 --> 00:29:39.830
Duan Barrino: Jesus These are things that folk mess up with. Now I um. Some of them are very personal. Some of them personal, dog.

00:29:39.830 --> 00:29:47.620
Duan Barrino: I'm telling you. Some them are personal. I'm going to go ahead and show up with the first one. Showing up late.

00:29:47.620 --> 00:30:01.050
Duan Barrino: Don't show up to your studio session late. Don't show up to practice late. Don't show up to the show late. You go to your job and show up to your job on time.

00:30:01.050 --> 00:30:11.450
Duan Barrino: You get to your job on time. Hey, work. Hey, you there. But then you got a studio session. Here you are. Showing up an hour late.

00:30:11.450 --> 00:30:11.880
Duan Barrino: And I've said an hour late.

00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:12.890
Quincy Murdock: Don't take a second.

00:30:12.890 --> 00:30:30.270
Duan Barrino: I said an hour late because it's real talk. And if that individual knows that I'm talking about him, he knows it now. Yeah, I'm talking about you. You know who you are. You show up an hour late with a Starbucks cup in your hand.

00:30:30.270 --> 00:30:41.180
Duan Barrino: With a Starbucks cup in your hand and try to treat the situation like it was just all good. Don't show up late, y'all. Don't show up late.

00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:41.660
Duan Barrino: Another thing.

00:30:41.660 --> 00:30:42.970
Quincy Murdock: That's disrespectful man to the producers time.

00:30:42.970 --> 00:30:56.180
Duan Barrino: Yeah Oh, I got another one. Recording after you done drunk too much. When you just show up to the recording session drunk. Or you getting drunk while you're at the recording session.

00:30:56.180 --> 00:30:58.900
Duan Barrino: Hey yeah.

00:30:58.900 --> 00:31:13.070
Quincy Murdock: Ah so we treating the studio as the club. So, you know, Biggie used to eat hot wings and have girls and in there when he was rapping. Ah. Biggie was Biggie, though. Everybody can't do what Biggie do.

00:31:13.070 --> 00:31:22.390
Quincy Murdock: Biggie, he didn't write nothing down. He was more in his zone. Some people, y'all not in y'all's zone when y'all do that, though. Biggie was in his zone when he was suited.

00:31:22.390 --> 00:31:23.460
Duan Barrino: Oh, let's add some more to that. Oh, let's add some more to that to their party situation.

00:31:23.460 --> 00:31:26.590
Quincy Murdock: Uh-huh.

00:31:26.590 --> 00:31:37.590
Duan Barrino: Let's stay there. Smoking immediately before you start recording. Or one of the ones that like that, I always say, the ones that like to smoke while they record.

00:31:37.590 --> 00:31:41.040
Quincy Murdock: Lord have mercy. I don't sanctify it.

00:31:41.040 --> 00:31:48.440
Duan Barrino: I mean, let me say this. If you like to smoke while you're recording, I'm not going to sit here and say that you can't smoke while you're recording.

00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:49.750
Quincy Murdock: Have respect for the producer.

00:31:49.750 --> 00:31:56.170
Duan Barrino: Listen, listen. I'm not going to say you can't smoke. Let me be honest with you. Let me be honest with you.

00:31:56.170 --> 00:31:56.930
Quincy Murdock: Be honest, bro.

00:31:56.930 --> 00:32:20.570
Duan Barrino: When your vocal cords take so much of a beating when you're recording... That you're adding smoke into it, especially if you're blowing gas. You're blowing gas, you're going to sit up and completely take up your whole situation of your throat box down to your lungs. Cigarettes is even 50 times worse.

00:32:20.570 --> 00:32:24.710
Duan Barrino: You trying to push all of this smoke out of your lungs and insane push all of this stuff out and it's supposed to make sense to the world.

00:32:24.710 --> 00:32:31.100
Quincy Murdock: Chris Brown.

00:32:31.100 --> 00:32:40.250
Duan Barrino: And when you record it. Exactly what you're, you get. Ain't late, brother.

00:32:40.250 --> 00:32:41.230
Quincy Murdock: And That's why they using all that Auto-Tuning and them voice adjustments on them records, man.

00:32:41.230 --> 00:32:47.990
Duan Barrino: Hey, let's go, bro. Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I got something else.

00:32:47.990 --> 00:32:48.280
Quincy Murdock: Oh, oh,.

00:32:48.280 --> 00:32:56.090
Duan Barrino: I got something else. I got something else. Do not expect Auto-Tune to do all the work.

00:32:56.090 --> 00:32:58.170
Quincy Murdock: Oh, Lois.

00:32:58.170 --> 00:33:13.620
Duan Barrino: This is another, this is, that one right there started to be my, my one of my big misunderstandings. Don't always expect Auto-Tune to be the factor.

00:33:13.620 --> 00:33:19.870
Duan Barrino: We got to get away, we I mean, T-Pain already told us about this years ago, too many years ago.

00:33:19.870 --> 00:33:20.830
Quincy Murdock: All right.

00:33:20.830 --> 00:33:31.680
Duan Barrino: Auto-Tune been bumping for years. I mean, Auto-Tune is over basically 20 year mark. So, what it stop expecting Auto-Tune.

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:44.570
Duan Barrino: Put some music together that don't take Auto-Tune. And even if it is the case, if you were if it is the case, you want to use Auto-Tune, use it in a sensible way to where somebody can understand it.

00:33:44.570 --> 00:33:47.610
Duan Barrino: Now, let's keep let's keep going. Ah.

00:33:47.610 --> 00:33:50.100
Quincy Murdock: Some people just don't try to be like, oh, I don't want to fix it.

00:33:50.100 --> 00:33:57.340
Duan Barrino: Let me go back to what Q was saying on this one. Stop bringing 10, 20 folk to the studio.

00:33:57.340 --> 00:34:00.700
Quincy Murdock: Bro, when have I ever? Tell, be honest.

00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:02.720
Duan Barrino: Stop bringing 10, 50.

00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:04.240
Quincy Murdock: When have I ever, bro?

00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:10.940
Duan Barrino: It's not a party. He This is not a party. It's not a party, man. It's not a party.

00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:14.150
Quincy Murdock: Did we celebrate them before we even won anything?

00:34:14.150 --> 00:34:17.670
Duan Barrino: It's not a party. It's a recording session. A recording session.

00:34:17.670 --> 00:34:19.770
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:34:19.770 --> 00:34:34.370
Duan Barrino: Almost like going to the bathroom by yourself. That's so the concentration, the things that you can do to mess things up, it usually comes from, you got too much going on in the studio, too many distractions.

00:34:34.370 --> 00:34:49.930
Quincy Murdock: It's all about getting that viral moment for IG. That's what they be doing in there. They're too busy focused on viral moments, IG moments, WorldStar, you know, and not focusing on the record.

00:34:49.930 --> 00:34:52.830
Quincy Murdock: I wonder why the record sound high sound.

00:34:52.830 --> 00:34:52.940
Duan Barrino: Let me ask,.

00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:56.760
Quincy Murdock: They more worried about the clips getting the getting the um content. Content, everything.

00:34:56.760 --> 00:35:07.560
Duan Barrino: Let me Let me add this to that. So you Like you just said, this is one of the biggest things where it's becoming a mix-up now.

00:35:07.560 --> 00:35:10.810
Duan Barrino: Because I think since the value of music is going down, people are treating...

00:35:10.810 --> 00:35:14.940
Quincy Murdock: Yeah. Right.

00:35:14.940 --> 00:35:17.180
Duan Barrino: The music like it's secondary.

00:35:17.180 --> 00:35:17.420
Quincy Murdock: Because.

00:35:17.420 --> 00:35:31.700
Duan Barrino: Yeah, like it's secondary, third and dairy, fourth and dairy. You know, for some, I mean, you got all these people that was creating content, you know, social media favorite people, and all they do now, they done switched up. Now they singles. Now they rappers.

00:35:31.700 --> 00:35:41.790
Duan Barrino: They would never end this field. But now they done slipped over into this world because it's easy to do it. You know, yo, I can do that. That's easy to do. But they really don't.

00:35:41.790 --> 00:35:43.160
Quincy Murdock: We made it easy them as artists.

00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:43.960
Duan Barrino: Thank you.

00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:44.600
Quincy Murdock: As artists.

00:35:44.600 --> 00:35:45.560
Duan Barrino: Thank you. The way, the way.

00:35:45.560 --> 00:35:54.420
Quincy Murdock: We allowed them to just come on in, sweep on because you know why? Because we didn't respect music. We didn't respect this art.

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:55.380
Duan Barrino: Yep.

00:35:55.380 --> 00:36:15.550
Quincy Murdock: So they're not going to respect it. They're going to look at you like, who are you? Man, give me that. I'm taking over what you got, man. I can do this too. But in reality, everybody can't do it to that level. You know, And some of them think they can, but we made it to think that a nobody can be somebody just putting out trash.

00:36:15.550 --> 00:36:15.700
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:36:15.700 --> 00:36:18.800
Quincy Murdock: And I'm going to just be 100.

00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.550
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:36:20.550 --> 00:36:32.290
Quincy Murdock: We talk about scamming. And I want to say this. Want to say this. Music, I don't know if I touched on this. Music really has a meaning behind it. Music is powerful.

00:36:32.290 --> 00:37:06.810
Quincy Murdock: I'm tired of people just saying, going into what you're saying, people just saying, oh, it's just a song. Oh, it got a nice beat. It's catchy. Listen. The scamming song personally you never really understand it until it happens to you like when I when situations happen to you and that viral song whatever could be scamming murders or whatnot and something happens to you think about that record that's promoting it and how you're gonna feel listening you're not gonna you be like turn it off so when you rap about love.

00:37:06.810 --> 00:37:18.820
Quincy Murdock: Love is always going to be the key because somebody could be down and they hear a love song. Brighten they day. You could be in love. Listen to a love song. Going to make you more in love.

00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:20.150
Duan Barrino: Mm-hmm.

00:37:20.150 --> 00:37:38.390
Quincy Murdock: What I'm basically saying is the message in these songs mean everything. It means everything. Music is powerful. And like you just say, people don't take it serious, but it takes music artists, real music artists to say things like this to show you, no, music is not just a gimmick. It's not a joke.

00:37:38.390 --> 00:37:51.290
Quincy Murdock: This is real life. It's serious. It affects life. It's one of the most effective things in the world. I don't care. You Everybody, I'm pretty sure out today you listen to music. You hear music one way or other.

00:37:51.290 --> 00:37:59.100
Quincy Murdock: In some way so music is probably the number one most effective source in the world forever.

00:37:59.100 --> 00:38:11.510
Duan Barrino: And I'm going to make a closer on that. That perfectly adds this. To add this to that. Recording it isn't about making your song good. Recording is about capturing great performance.

00:38:11.510 --> 00:38:11.610
Duan Barrino: The better prepared you are before you hit the studio, the more professional your music will sound.

00:38:11.610 --> 00:38:17.940
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:29.980
Duan Barrino: So know that all of the stuff that we've given, touched on today great. Not just from you know a place of it just fell out of the sky.

00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:30.090
Duan Barrino: Really more so about experience.

00:38:30.090 --> 00:38:32.330
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:38:32.330 --> 00:38:43.030
Duan Barrino: I've been in too many recording so situations where excuse me well I've seen all of this go down. Literally, real time. All of this stuff.

00:38:43.030 --> 00:38:53.460
Duan Barrino: So take advantage of everything that we just talked on. It's literally, if you got run it back, run it back. Listen to it again. Keep this one. Save this one. This was for a long ago.

00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:55.050
Quincy Murdock: Right.

00:38:55.050 --> 00:39:13.690
Duan Barrino: I gave a list of things. I didn't just want to just give one thing and talk on it. I gave a list of things to go on that could be improved and people need to improve on. So again, that's what we do. That's what we listen. That's what we've been through these things in different situations, seeing different things. That's what we're going to get. So, uh,.

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Duan Barrino: All of the things that we've been balancing to now, we make it all make sense to y'all, especially those independent people, man, because the independents really don't know a lot of things. And it's understood. There's nothing wrong with not knowing.

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Duan Barrino: You know, there's nothing wrong with not knowing, but conversation gets in there.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: So make sure, again, if you need help, ask for help.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: Hadn't said it in a while. Need help, get the help. Don't be afraid to ask for help. It's nothing worse than somebody, you dealing with somebody and they don't know what they're doing. And guess what? That person is you because you don't want to ask for help.

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Duan Barrino: Don't be that person.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: Don't clench and hold on to them either, though, for that help. You know, Learn it fast. You know, It's not hard to learn. It's really more so about.

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Quincy Murdock: Take it and grow. Take it and grow, man.

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Duan Barrino: Be consistent.

00:39:58.900 --> 00:39:59.580
Quincy Murdock: Take it and grow.

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Duan Barrino: Once you get consistent, you ain't going to no problems with that stuff like that. And lastly, autism community.

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Quincy Murdock: Right.

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Duan Barrino: I love y'all. Disabilities community, I love y'all. At the end of the day, everybody, we love y'all. Take it all in. You know, this is a lot to be balancing amongst itself as an independent artist.

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Duan Barrino: Mean, we've done it long enough to know. So at the end, stay down, stay focused. And guess what? You'll get done. Peace till next time. Let y'all get folks.