Why is my voice so distorted by the time I record it?

In fact, what is recorded is the correct timbre that you make, and the sound you feel in your body is different from what others hear!

Why do people feel that what they feel is so ugly when they listen to their own recordings?

You can't simply say that the sound obtained from the recording is your own original sound.

1.The recording will be distorted after several transmissions of hardware, software, and signals, and the result will definitely be different from the original sound. Some good equipment can collect all your voices relatively completely, and some may directly turn into a vague rumble after recording.

2.The sound you hear is indeed a little better than what others hear, because you can hear the details completely, and others will ignore these details when they are far away.

3.There are two ways of pronunciation, true voice and falsetto. The real voice is the kind of smooth sound that comes out when you're completely relaxed, and the falsetto I understand as the incomplete sound that comes out when you're a little nervous.

Normally, both sounds are heard by others, but you may be more inclined to think that you are making the real sound. Especially when singing a cappella, I usually make a real voice, but when I sing with the accompaniment, I am nervous because I can't keep up with the key and breath, and it is easy to make a falsetto. At this time, the result of the recording was falsetto, and it sounded awkward.

But because others usually hear your falsetto when you speak, others think it's normal.

Therefore, the sound obtained from the recording will be distorted, and the result heard is different from what you expected, which is related to the equipment and the way people pronounce it.

The vibration of the skull causes the sound waves of the sound to decrease, causing us to hear ourselves differently than we hear in the recording. I believe that many children are very strange when they really hear their own voice for the first time, obviously their voice should be relatively low, but the voice in the recording is so strange? The difference in sound is actually due to the problem of skull vibration, the sound we hear is transmitted to the brain through the bones, while the sound heard by others has no resistance.

1. Your own voice in the recording is actually the real voice that others hear

In the era when there was no recording, human beings would think that the sound they heard was their real voice, but the appearance of the tape recorder surprised many people; The voice in the tape recorder that is inferior to your own, naturally your own? But when we complain that the tape recorder is broken, people will say, "That's right, it's your voice." In fact, the sound in the recording and the sound you hear are all "your own voice", but there are certain differences in the propagation of the sound, resulting in different audio and tones between the two.

Second, because the sound waves are damaged when bones travel, we will find that there will be a difference between the "own voice" we hear and the "own voice" in the recording

Our brain hears "our own voice" through the bones, so the vibration of the skull will damage our own voice to a certain extent, and what enters our brain is the relatively low "own voice"; The sound heard by others and the tape recorder has no bone resistance, so it is higher pitch than the sound we hear ourselves, although it may be strange, but in fact both sounds are our "own voices". Many people will even identify the tape recorder's "own voice" as the real sound, but in fact, both are our real voices, but they are heard differently.

Without the bone block, we hear "our own voice" and "our own voice" in the tape recorder.

It should be that the transmission path is different, the sound I hear when I speak has air conduction and solid conduction, and the sound after the recording is only air conduction, so the two voices will sound different.

Because the recording does not include all of your own voices, some of the amplitudes are missing, so it sounds different from what you imagined.

Nervousness is the main reason, you are very nervous when you decide on the recording mentality, because if you don't record well, you have to re-record it, so every time you want to record it, the sound will be very strange when you are nervous.

Because in the process of recording, the recording equipment used, as well as the ambient sound during the recording process, will cause your voice to change.

Because on the one hand, it is due to the difference in sound, because I don't know my actual voice, and there is also the problem of recording equipment, which will have an impact.

Because the recording will digitize your voice and then transmit it, it may be a little different from your own business, so it will become weird.

The reason why our own voice in the recording becomes very strange is mainly because our own voice that we hear when we usually speak is heard through bone conduction, while our voice in the recording is recorded through air transmission, and the sound transmission route is different, so we will feel that the sound of listening to the recording is very strange.

Hehe, does LZ think his voice is particularly ugly or something?

First, listening to one's own voice, or listening to one's own recorded voice, is not the same thing as listening to one's own voice from the outside world, why? Because you're halfway right, when we speak because bone conduction we hear the sound from within, and because we listen to our own inner voice, once we record our voice and let it go to ourselves, we feel even more weird.

Second, all announcers or singers record their voices and process them, and the processed voices are completely incomparable to our own recordings, which is far from being good.

Third, it is recommended that you go to the recording studio to audition and see what your voice is really all about.

For others, the sound will make such a journey into their ears: first, the pinna is responsible for collecting the sound coming from the sound source, and these airborne sounds pass through the external auditory canal (about centimeters long) and enter the narrow middle ear. The outer wall of the middle ear is a thin membrane that we call the tympanic membrane.

There are 3 ossicles in the tympanic chamber, named malleus, stapes, and incus according to their shape. The three ossicles are connected to one side of the eardrum, which acts as a bridge to transmit the vibrations of the eardrum caused by sound waves into the inner ear. The inner ear is divided into two parts, the inner auditory canal and the inner ear labyrinth, which is the most important organ for our "hearing" function.

There are 24,000 harp-like auditory nerves in the inner ear, also known as the 8th cranial nerve, which stretch from the inner ear to the brain. The auditory nerve transmits the sound wave vibrations it feels to the brain, which analyzes and determines what the sound is.

For ourselves, the situation is a little different. We ourselves hear our own voices that have been "processed" by visceral resonance. In other words, the sound you hear is the sound that after you speak, the organs in your body vibrate and then reach the auditory nerve.

So what you hear is different from what others hear about you, and what other people hear is what you really hear.

In addition, because the wavelength of the sound we produce is not the same as that of a machine such as ** or a tape recorder, in this way, because the two voices do not match, your voice will also be different in reality from ** or tape recorder.

For your own voice, what you hear is different from what others hear, because what others hear is completely transmitted through sound waves, but what you hear is a mixture of skull and airborne sound, and you feel that the sound in the tape recorder is different from the sound you make.

Mainly because I don't have confidence in myself, you see those divas who can hear their songs on the street or something, and they don't say it's ugly. So the landlord is his own psychological problem.

First: As said on the Internet, when we are pronouncing, we hear not only the sound of the vocal cords through the pharyngeal cavity and oral cavity after vibration, but also the impact of the vibration or resonance of various organs on the original sound, such as the vibration of the skull and the vibration of the larynx, so when we speak or sing, we hear our own voice is a very complex sound. And when we capture the sound through the recording, there is precisely no effect of the vibration or resonance of the organs mentioned above, so when we listen to the sound after the recording, we will feel a big contrast.

Second: In addition to the above reasons, the recording process also has a great impact on the formation of sound, such as: 1. How is your environment (whether it is a professional recording studio or an ordinary living environment) 2. How is your hardware (the performance of the computer, the performance of the recording platform, the type of microphone, the reasonable connection between devices, etc.) 3. Is there a problem with the use of your microphone (the distance from the microphone, the angle of the microphone, and the direction of the microphone with different directivity have different requirements for the direction of sound collection, Generally, high-sensitivity condenser microphones are used in the recording studio) 4. The quality of post-processing, and the high-quality original sound acquisition in the early stage create excellent conditions for the later mixing.

The "perfect" processing in the later stage can also be said to be the icing on the cake for the vocals.