Tape recorders are about the worst machines you can think of to record music. Every taperecorder has it's own way of colouring tones, so no 2 machines will reproduce the tones the same. Then cheap microhpones are crappy, and expensie microhones not used well, don't giev a real image as well. Most recordings made in a lesson situation are made from very near, which amkes your voice mostly darker and seem bigger. Mein problems are colouraion: the chain of all the recording and reproducing things, can chnages all kind of tones for better and for worse, so beware. Distorion can aslo cheat you: it will add extra high frequences that were not there, so a smooth tone, will becoem less smooth, but a tone without ping, cab sound as one with ping! your speakers will distort the tonea as well as the microphone(s): you relly need good ones! The the microphone used is probably crappy as well. The distortion can me your voice soiund worse, but laso bettr than in reality: e.g. distorion can sound like 'ping'. The 'warmth' of voice can very easily disappear in a recording. If you know a voice that more or less ounds like yours, you could try to record it in exact the same way: that might give an indication.
--- Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> wrote: > I tape lessons much less to hear my own voice as to > capture my teacher's > comments on tape as reminders as I'm practising > between lessons. Frankly, > I don't much enjoy listening to myself on tape (or > watching myself on > video). Even when it's what I know, objectively, is > a good performance, > I'm far too much of a perfectionist to be able to > appreciate my own > recordings. And because much of how I approach > vocal technique is > sensate/tactile rather than aural, I find that > hearing myself is only of > limited helpfulness in directing me towards good > technique and away from > bad technique. Mainly because the tape usually > cannot help me remember > the *sensations* I felt when singing correctly vs. > incorrectly. I'd > rather rely on my inner ear (i.e., how I sound in my > head) combined with > the sensations that go along with that "inner ear" > sound, combined with my > teacher's appraisal of what's good and what isn't. > All this to say, I > guess, that I'm mainly a physical learner when it > comes to singing. > > Karen > ----- > Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, > Der in den Zweigen wohnet; > Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt, > Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet. > -- J.W. von Goethe, WILHELM MEISTER > > My NEIL SHICOFF Website: > http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html > > My Website: > http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html > >
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