When singing, do you sound the way you sound like in your head? ?

You sound different to how you think you sound for two reasons.

1. Intent.

You're intending to sound a certain way. As you're singing you're focussing on that intent, rather than listening passively and objectively. If you didn't your pitch would go off key for starters. However, this means you can't accurately objectify your voice because what you're trying to sound like will always influence what you're hearing.

Understand? You have to in your 'minds ear' hear yourself singing in a particular way, to make the attempt. Because of this you can't really tell if you're totally succeeding or not, unless you can "get out of your own head" through playing back a recording, or to a lesser extent, hearing echo or reverb in a hall.

2. Sinuses.

Your voice is literally ringing in your head. The soundwaves are resonating in your sinuses which connect to your ears. So you're going to hear your voice INSIDE your head, as well as what's coming out, and this sounds different to JUST the voice outside.

So while you're singing, you ARE actually hearing something different.

Try singing while blocking your ears. You can still hear yourself of course.

If I'm doing gigs as a backing singer in a group, I actually sing with earplugs partially in, so that I don't even need foldback monitors to hear myself. This uses the internal volume in my head to good use! So many backing vocalists sharing a monitor struggle to hear themselves apart from everyone else, yet with my method that's never an issue.

Anyway, so that's why you sound different to your own ears if you hear a recording back.

However, THIS IS TEMPORARY. The more you practice recording, the more you're able to close the gap between how you think you sound (or want to sound) and how you sound to others. You're able to feel in your throat how certain sounds are formed, and more accurately control tone, dynamic and resonator adjustments.

So record yourself! It's an advantage singers in this era have over singers of other eras.

:-)

Cheers and all the best.

Hahaha I think I can sing just like Randy Travis when I sing his songs.

But when I record myself. I am to embarrassed to play the song back again and again.

It sounds terrible.

But I won 200 dollars singing karaoke at a karaoke bar.

I can't believe that they liked my singing. I sound terrible.

I always thought i sounded good and when i got solos in choir people said i was good and when i recorded myself i thought i was good, but its different for different people. Most people will think they sound good.

im sure if you work with your voice more you could make your singing voice better.

i'm a singer myself and with me i think of that is a sort of self belief using fact as quickly as I sing i think of i sound great yet while i pass on point i sound like a canines dealing with something painful :L yet besides i think of it is using self belief and relies upon according to probability ask for a 2d opinion from a chum they might think of different smart.

yes its true example...singing a solo in front of 800+ ppl requires an amazing amount of project doesn't it?(that is wat i did in June)ur voice will sound amazingly TERRIBLE in fact its so horrible that i felt uncomfortable during the practice session until my conductor told me my voice was really nice and that although it sounds horrible when i sing it loud its actually gd...proven by the video my parents took -_-"

haha, my friend always liked to hear me sing, but when i use a mike, it sound like poo. and wen i record it, it totally different already!

hi best way to hear your voice is put it through an amp/pa then you will hear your voice good luck

yes, i think its true... i recorded my voice and listen to it, it sounds ugh!... but people said i have good voice, and if you think that you have good voice, you have good voice...

yeah it happens to me

lots :)

well try recording your singing i've tried it and it improves my sound :)) .