One of the most important communication elements in music is your voice. Because it is of big importance, it has to stand up to big scrutiny. And who better to scrute in eyes then I? I still get jarred listening to my own voice. Even after numerous recordings, and singing through monitors each week, there is never a great satisfaction in hearing my voice. I still get thoughts like; do I really sound like that? wow that’s bad, and it’s so tinny sounding.
If it’s just leaving a message on the answering machine, or singing on a big stage, many people have serious issues with hearing the sound of their voice.
Others may be able to recognize your recorded voice better than you can because of resonance. When we speak we are hearing the vocal chord vibrations, the sound exiting our mouth, and the vibrations or resonance throughout our skull and neck. Others just hear the end result. Plugging your ears and speaking lets you hear all the low warm parts in your voice you wish everyone would hear. Adversely the cheap digital technology and tiny microphones on our smartphones and answering machines only capture the higher frequencies of our voice. So a comforting fact is, the outside world does hear your voice better than it sounds on a machine.
It’s hard to know what your voice really sounds like to others. My suggestion is to talk, sing, shout like no bodies business.
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