Is this really the sound of your singing voice. Do this with me. (sings)
Hi I'm Ken Tamplin from Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing. A lot of people
say I hate the sound of my voice when I record it, is that really what I sound like and the answer is
partly yes and partly no. If you take a couple of manila envelopes like this or even a couple pieces
of paper and you do this scale with me, I want to go over some things that might surprise you. So
I want you to put it on your head. I feel like Mr. Potato Head. Did I do it right. Here we go. So (sings)
and I want you to notice that the sound gets pushed
so far back that you can't really tell what the tonal qualities of your voice
is right. So let's try another experiment. Let me set these down. I want you to cup your hands
in front of your ears like this and I want you to do the same thing I want you to go (sings)
and did you notice that it sounded kind of like when you had the manila envelopes on your ears
but it wasn't as dramatic you could hear some of the ambient noise
but not as much as if you take your hands, cup them now behind your ears
and bring them forward in front of your face pretty far and do the same thing (sings).
What you're doing is you're creating kind of an amphitheater where you're projecting the sound
directly in front where you can really truly hear the quality and the different intonations
of the voice which pitch etc. Now that's kind of more like what other people hear
when you record your voice, is more like when your hands are cupped in front of your face. So what
happens is that you have to, be able to split the difference of that voice inside of your head.
Voices in your head and or also really understand how to listen to your recording.
I recommend that you take your phone out and you record it and you do this (sings).
Then you bring it in the front (sings)
and you listen back and you say huh, yeah it kind of sounds like my voice but it's more muted
and darker and more dull when I do this and I can really hear all the you know the carbuncles
in my voice when I bring the sound far forward or when I hear my sound recorded from my phone. Now
I want you to try one more experiment it's going to be kind of interesting.
I want you to take your fingers and I want you to put them really far in your ears like this
or i'm just blocking off my hearing. I want you to do the same scale and record it and go (sings).
Now take them out (sings).
and then I'm going gonna want you go in and out and then back in
again (sings). Did you match the intonation. Were you able to keep pitch and stay in pitch
or did you waver on the pitch when you put your fingers in your ear.
That's because sound pressure builds up in the head it's also why people, some people
have difficulty singing into microphones with headphones on depending on how loud they are.
All of this matters and all of this matters on with you listening after recording your voice,
getting to love the sound of your voice because that is truly the real sound of your voice but
when I put the, you know the envelopes on the back of my head it's kind of at this distance
where I kind of have to guess a little bit at what the true sound of my voice is until I get
used to it okay. I cover all of this in my singing course if you guys are interested. You can find it
right here at KenTamplinVocalAcademy.com and as we say here at KTVA, the proof is in the singing.