DANIaka007@a... wrote: > Do you think that recording, whatever it might be, > is a very bad > representation of that thing you're recording? > Singing exspecially? Also, > recording something of singing onto a tape, what you > hear isn't the TRUE > representation of your voice? > Thanks! Dear Danielle and list, a recording is always just a recording: in reality things will sound different, and the amount to which it sounds different is depending on many things. A professional recording can even be 'better' than reality, in terms of exposing details, but is it the truth? Technically it is possible to come very close, commercially it is more difficult. Most amateur-recordings are less detailed than reality and are coloured. Besides that: especially when listening to our own voice you have a big problem and it is a psycho-accoustical one. First there is the proximity effect: lower frequencies near to a microphone or to year ears will sound louder, so you hear your voice fuller, 'lower' and warmer than it is. That's why it is so strange to hear your own voice one a recording the first time. But psychoaccoustics behave strange: you will hear some of your own voice through this sound, and your brains will try to adjust the sound your hear, into the sound you are used to hear (to how your voice sounds in your head, which is definitively not like other people hear it). Your 'ping' will also sound different from what you hear in your head, but that is even more complicated. (By the way: that you don't hear your true sound in your head, is one of the reasons that it is so hard to learn to sing really well). But listening to a recording made of many singers whose voices you know well, together with you, all recorded in the same way, can give a better impression, especially when playing them at random: then you're not expecting to hear yourself. If those people sound almost like you know them, you will listen to a reasonable recording of your voice, provided your voice is more or less simular to one or more of the other voices. I'll hope you find such a recording, succes!
Dre de Man
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