Re: Perplexing vocal anomaly

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:14:33 -0500, "Lamneth" <lamneth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm hoping some of the more experienced musicians here can help me figure
this one out cos I can't. I am not the greatest of singers, I can usually
stay in key if it's not too high. However when I put the studio headphones
on and sing with both ears covered I noticed I can sing much better and hit
notes I can't usually hit. I thought well maybe I don't belt out as much as
I do singing in a live situation but that's not true at all, I belt it out
with the headphones on too. Then I thought well maybe I just sound better
through a large diaphragm mic so I hooked up an sm58 for vox and I can still
sound much better with it hooked up and the phones on.

Does anyone here know what the hell could be going on? I'd love to be able
to sing like I do with headphones but like I said as soon as I take em off,
I drop out of key sometimes and my range is much more limited.

It's not my imagination either, when I record singing the same song without
the phones on I sound like shit compared to with them on.

Any guesses??

I'm sure it's very simply that you are hearing yourself better with
the headphones on, a combination of blocking out other sounds and
having them right in your ears. You need better monitoring in a live
situation.
.

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