Does your voice sound better on a microphone?
You're probably hearing two different effects. The hard, reflective surfaces in the bathroom give your voice a natural reverb that makes your voice sound fuller. Likewise with a mic, as reverb can be added. Another effect you get from singing into a mic is the proximity effect. That's the "bass boost" you get when you sing with the mic close to your mouth. Both of of those effects together we tend to identify as "sounding good". As far as comparing a bathroom to a mic, all I can tell you is this...it's a lot easier to carry a microphone around than a bathroom. Greetings from Austin, Tx Ken
Do better microphones make a big difference in singing?
It absolutely does,. A better microphone will not make you sound better than you are, but it will show your voice better,. Cheaper mics sometimes do not have the capacity to properly enhance certain pitches. I have a very high soprano voice and when i get up into my uper register most cheap mics cant handle such pitches and it distortes my voice. Just remember a microphone is only a speaker, to enhance the volume of what you put in. It cant turn a William Hung into a Whitney Houston lol... umm also, when you really get into a song, we all think we sound amazing.. speakers and microphones can distort a voice, but not to the point of turning a good singer into complete crap just have fun with it regardless lol
Does using a better Microphone make you sound better?
So I've been interested in recording vocals for a while now. I got this $50 mic a while back and everyone I've tested on it says it makes them sound terrible. I've used it for myself too and I wasn't impressed. But I was wondering if purchasing a better microphone improve feedback from vocals or are microphones generally the same? For instance, a few buddies will get together and record with me and I think this one guy has a great voice just listening to him. But when it's recorded it makes him sound, flat-ish. I really don't know how to put it. I've been thinking about getting a Blue Yeti Microphone for a while now, because everyone that uses that gets these clear vivid vocals and I'm wondering if that's because of the mic or is there some vocal training to achieve that sound?
Why does my voice sound beautiful when I sing, but when recorded, it sounds horrible?
An element worth noting in all of this is that you may be tuning your voice to what you're hearing, rather than to the acoustic of the room. When you sing, a certain percentage of the sound that you hear in real time is heard through bone, which can distort things. You may need to retrain your singing to ignore the effect of the bone, because it could be throwing you off.There's a cool trick that I love for doing this without having to record yourself all the time. Put your hand on each side up to the tragus of your ear (that little cartilage flap that's right on top of the ear opening) on each side. Put your hand there in the same position as though you were karate chopping, if that makes sense (but, obviously, gently). Then curve your fingers so that they outline the rest of your ear. You should look kind of like you're giving yourself Mickey Mouse ears if you're doing it right. Now try to speak. And try to sing, for that matter. Your voice should sound different but not THAT different. This is a pretty good approximation of what you sound like to people who aren't you. It's also a useful tool for where you should be recording your voice. Walk into a recording studio that you're thinking about using (or a room you're thinking of recording in), and try this out. If you don't feel good about the acoustic, record somewhere else!
Why do so many singers sound better recorded than they do live?
Records are where most people will hear an artists music first. The artist and their record label want to put their best foot forward and any people are a part of the team that makes a record sound studio recorded. 1. In a studio setting the singer is singularly focused on singing as opposed to dancing, showmanship, or any other entertainment factor that they'd have to pursue at a live show. 2. In a studio songs are not sang straight through. There is time to start and stop, to re-record and get the best sound out of the singer. Then the producer can use only the top recording clips as the vocals for the album. It's like taking your SAT a few times and using your Math score from your first test and your verbal score from your fourth time around because they were the best. 3. Digital technology in addition to connecting the best recorded vocal clips allows to digitally enhance those vocals to fit in more smoothly with the instrumentation, timing and clarity of the song. The voice can be manipulated and any effect added to it so that it can fit the songs mode. 4. Expensive equipment: microphones, sound filter, the recording room its self (which is set to have the best possible acoustics for recording) also contribute to the better quality. All of these things give the record sound an advantage over the life sound. But you've got to love the realness of the atmosphere at a live show of one of your favorite performers.
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Does a bad microphone make a good voice sound bad?
Sure! you can have a crappy recording from a mic. However, we ALL think we sound better than we really do! When you start really recording yourself, even with good equipment, you'll see that it's not as easy as it looks to sing a song perfect. That's why the music biz records parts over and over and over, even with singers who are probably better than you and I can't sing songs perfect in 1 take everytime. It sounds like you are using like a $5 mic though, if it's that cheap, don't disrespect your voice by singing in it. Get a better one, or see if you can use somebody elses to record from if you just want to record a couple things. I have a shure57 and it's a pretty good all purpose mic. Check out guitar center website. Good luck!