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
>
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> http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
>
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>
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