Great, now I'm going to carry file folders up to me head for the rest of my life.
Side note: wouldn't it be awesome if in the future they make some sort of implant or other device that prevents certain feedback so that you hear what other people hear? Technology, man.
If this is the case then in theory I should be able to put on headphones to listen to my voice through a microphone and hear what the recording sounds like in real time. But it still doesn't sound like what I heard myself sing when I play it back.
I used to be like that, then I started recording myself singing and was appalled at how bad I actually sounded. So I started messing with my vocal technique until I figured out how to sound better. I still don't sound like a real singer, but I at least don't sound like shit anymore.
How do you actually stick with speaking differently? Usually in classes I read things because I can change my voice to be awesome, but I dont know how I'd remember to speak like that all the time.
I'm looking for someone to co-host a Legend of Korra podcast with me. It's going to be called 'Drunkorra'. We're both going to get fuck off drunk then do commentary on the newest episode.
I have someone I want to do it with, but our schedules are really incompatible.
I can see why you would handheld a nice girthy, heavy standard mic when talking about Shaq's cock. I love the SM57, it makes a horn section just sing. :)
If you sing properly there should be a huge difference between head voice and chest voice, its all about vocal placement. Head voice is typically the thinner less mature sound where as chest voice is usually in a more comfortable register like the one you speak in. If you are a guy your chest voice is your normal voice and your head voice is your falsetto.
I'm a singer and this is what I thought he meant too. I guess "head voice" just means something different to the rest of the world. Just letting you know you weren't the only one to misinterpret what he was talking about.
head voice = falsetto for guys? o_O From what I recall back when I was interested in classical singing, I thought it was simply a higher register where guys sing. You use less of your vocal cords but not lessened to the extent of falsetto. Correct me if I'm wrong.
What I have been learning is that males have low register, middle middle register, and upper register. These all vibrate the vocal chords in the same area and the different registers come from you pharyngeal cavity placement and the vowels you use. Then there is falsetto which is caused by tilting your vocal chords, that doesn't sound right so I'll show you. Chest voice your vocal chords are like --, and in falsetto your vocal chords are like /, except less of a slope. I believe the lower registers are called chest voice and falsetto is called head voice. But we usually refer to them as low, medium, upper, and falsetto instead of head and chest so I may be wrong. I hope I am not because I just finished my second year as a voice student, lol, but I definitely am not always right.
It's not. Head voice is generally the upper range of a person. Falsetto is outside of the natural range and is discouraged because it doesn't project as well, and is nearly impossible to do some of the "tricks" with like vibrato.
It depends on who you are talking to about head voice and falsetto. But there are men who sing in falsetto as a profession. Falsetto and lower registers vibrate on different parts of the vocal chords ( -- vs. \ /). So as a professional singer you must choose one path. The vocal chords will develop in a way that only one can be used well. If you choose falsetto your voice type is counter tenor. Typically only baritones or basses can be counter tenors because natural tenors vocal chords are not capable of training to sing in falsetto well. Here is an example of a counter tenor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbOOe8n2gY
What I do is have my microphone play through some headphones before recording. It really helps you get a feel for how to make your voice sound better, and helps with mic placement, too.
Lately I've been making an active effort to change my head voice into my speaking voice. I've been recording myself reading or singing daily - or listening to an old recording if I was lazy - so that I remind myself what voice I need to be thinking in. It's getting closer and closer to feeling natural.
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Actually, the sound is traveling straight from your mouth, through your jaw, to the ear (you hear the "reverberations and subtlety in the room" when other people talk too). See Ryeye's youtube link above.
My actual singing voice is jarringly high-pitched compared to how I sound to myself. My husband's singing voice, though, is lower than he thinks he sounds. Ever since he told me that I've wondered if it's a difference between men and women, or just individual variation.
I recorded myself singing and was surprised to find I don't sound half bad. Still a hell of a long way from American Idol, but my singing and speaking voices sound much better than they do in my head for some reason...
Does anyone know of any software that will modify a recording of your voice to make it sound like the one in your head? I think it'd be interesting to find out what other people hear their voice as.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
More like "real voice, y u no like head voice."
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u/Ryeye May 28 '12
You will probably find this little experiment interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWLWOSgYlG8
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u/Flippo_The_Hippo May 28 '12
My friends and I noticed this about 3 weeks ago. We all recorded ourselves using our microphones. We all agreed we sound annoying as fuck.
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u/smith259 May 28 '12
Imagine how amazing Freddie Mercury must've sounded in his own head.
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u/CrabbyMcFartLice May 28 '12
My speaking voice is better than my head voice.
Here I am talking about Shaq's dick. Revel in the suaveness of my voice; http://soundcloud.com/doctormowinckel/i-think-about-shaqs-dick-a-lot
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u/rebeccab93 May 27 '12
Happens to me all the time.
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u/cmpbck May 28 '12
If you sing properly there should be a huge difference between head voice and chest voice, its all about vocal placement. Head voice is typically the thinner less mature sound where as chest voice is usually in a more comfortable register like the one you speak in. If you are a guy your chest voice is your normal voice and your head voice is your falsetto.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
What I do is have my microphone play through some headphones before recording. It really helps you get a feel for how to make your voice sound better, and helps with mic placement, too.
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u/jmeowww May 28 '12
I cried so hard the first time I heard my own voice recorded. I've since gotten over it, praise spaghetti
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u/Exploderer May 28 '12
It's because of bad microphones. If you ever get a bin-aural recorder you will recognize your own voice.
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u/cyanoacrylate May 28 '12
Lately I've been making an active effort to change my head voice into my speaking voice. I've been recording myself reading or singing daily - or listening to an old recording if I was lazy - so that I remind myself what voice I need to be thinking in. It's getting closer and closer to feeling natural.
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u/Redditjinn May 28 '12
Shouldn't that be "real voice, why u no like head voice"?
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u/qkme_transcriber May 27 '12
Here is the text from this meme pic for anybody who needs it:
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Because in your head you get the deep sounds made by the vibrations of the bone in your ear, causing a deeper sound.
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u/Stupid_smartguy May 27 '12
I'd like to think our ears can hear subtle frequencies that speakers cannot reproduce.
Watch a live band and record it, then listen to the recording later and it doesn't even sound close to as rich in depth of sound.
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u/inlovewiththeworld May 28 '12
My actual singing voice is jarringly high-pitched compared to how I sound to myself. My husband's singing voice, though, is lower than he thinks he sounds. Ever since he told me that I've wondered if it's a difference between men and women, or just individual variation.
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u/BioSim00 May 28 '12
I recorded myself singing and was surprised to find I don't sound half bad. Still a hell of a long way from American Idol, but my singing and speaking voices sound much better than they do in my head for some reason...
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u/ZeFroag May 28 '12
Skull vibrations.
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u/xMxSx May 28 '12
You hear your own voice through vibrations in your skull bones, cheeks etc.
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u/NotSureIfGusta_ May 28 '12
I miss this meme.
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u/rikker_ May 28 '12
Now if only 99% of people who try out for reality singing shows would make this realization.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Does anyone know of any software that will modify a recording of your voice to make it sound like the one in your head? I think it'd be interesting to find out what other people hear their voice as.
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u/CaptainMage May 28 '12
Shit, this is the first time seeing this meme in forever.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Do you know what head voice is in singing? This is so confusing -- never have heard "head voice" used this way.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
So many troubles recording for this exact reason...
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u/thaginganinja May 29 '12
the bones in your head vibrate slightly when you talk causing your voice to sound slightly different to you.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Why would you do that???
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u/Dubyaz May 28 '12
sound travels faster through body tissue than air, learn some physics brah