The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98291   Message #1944798
Posted By: Genie
22-Jan-07 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: Hearing your own voice recorded
Subject: RE: Hearing your own voice recorded
The first time I heard my recorded (speaking) voice was on a reel-to-reel tape recorder back in the early 1950s, and I was horrified how bad it sounded!

Today's recording technology has advanced to where my voice, speaking or singing, doesn't sound that bad to me even when recorded on a cheap cassette recorder.   Still, I am amazed how different my singing sounds when recorded in a decent studio, as compared with just singing into a garden variety tape recorder. And I don't mean because of "ProTooling."    My home recording devices have tone control, reverb, etc., on them, too, but I never sound on them the way I sound to myself when singing. But recordings done even in "garage studios" do pretty much sound the way I sound to myself.   Same goes for live recordings, where the settings aren't adjusted much for each new performer at the open mic, etc.
(They CAN sound a lot BETTER, if they are tweaked a lot, but that isn't usually done.
I just think that we now have recording instruments and techniques that can capture pretty much the way your voice would sound in a concert hall with good acoustics.)