I think it’s pretty universal that each of us “hears” our own voice differently than it actually sounds to other people. If you ever have heard a recorded version of your voice, I am sure you’re familiar with this phenomenon.
Personally I much prefer the sound of my “inner voice” than the voice I hear when I’m recorded.
Does anyone prefer the voice they here on recording over the voice they hear in their heads?
Does anyone else find it annoying that the two sound different?
You bet it’s annoying! In my head I sound like George Clooney, but recorded I sound like Lt. Dangle.
I’m so screwed…
In my head, I should be winning American Idol… but then I hear myself and I sound like the people the first few weeks – not the last few weeks.
And for the record, my car or a hairbrush-microphone totally makes me sound a million times better.
Do some people hear the inner voice and the outer voice as sounding the same….maybe that is the key to being a great singer, knowing how you sound on the outside and adjusting for that.
Well, everyone keeps telling me that I am so tone-deaf that I can’t sing.
Maybe that’s why I think I hear the beauty of my inner voice as I sing aloud in the office. I hear only the dulcet tones of my beautiful voice … while everyone else seems to hear the wails of an elephant dying a slow, painful death.
By the way, you can actually hear me sing, here on chickenmonkeydog.
I used to do a lot of tape recorded interviews in the UK with suspected criminals and the tapes would get played in court at the resultant trials. The first time this happened I was totally disabused of the notion that I had the voice of an Olivier or Gielgud. Yet even with this concrete proof my inner voice is still nothing like the real thing. We kid ourselves all the time that we are more handsome,better built more charming and wittier and intelligent than we really are. If we didn’t the result would be utter despair. Project that inner voice luvee.