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I get anxious when recording my voice. \u00a0My voice is like my hair – I just can’t trust it. When I really need it to shine for me, in a recording studio or a photo shoot, I just don’t know how its going to behave.<\/p>\nI get anxious when recording my voice. \u00a0My voice is like my hair – I just can’t trust it. When I really need it to shine for me, in a recording studio or a photo shoot, I just don’t know how its going to behave.<\/p>\n
My voice works for gigging\u00a0– \u00a0it’s solid, on pitch, listenable – but it in the mayhem of live performance, \u00a0there’s not a lot of room for subtlety. On a record, though, all of one’s vocal charms and puzzlements are revealed. \u00a0Hence my anxiety.<\/p>\n
I have never liked the way I sing the title track “Motel”<\/a>. The vocal line takes a melodic leap right out of the gate. And this is the hook of the tune, so I want to get it right. \u00a0I dream\u00a0of a gentle, invitational quality, but\u00a0the result is always strained and a trifle unpleasant.\u00a0And now its time for recording my voice and I don’t have a plan!<\/p>\n My husband said\u00a0“Can i give some advice?” while i was practicing my vocal delivery (WORD: bad time to jump in on a woman) and in my frustration I tore him a new one. “NO! THAT’S THE LAST THING I WANT YOU TO DO!” He scurried off. \u00a0Turns out he was going to suggest I get more “vulnerable”.<\/p>\n In the studio, we ran through some passes with the usual cringing harshness. \u00a0all my doubts\u00a0about recording my voice came down,\u00a0my heart failed me, and \u00a0in despair I told the engineer\u00a0that basically I didn’t know what I was doing. \u00a0He said “Maybe just back off a bit?” WORD: Women will hear things from others that she will not tolerate from her husband. The auto mechanic can correct her shifting technique, but some advice from her husband could result in injury.<\/p>\n Usually when I sing, backing off isn’t effective because i couldn’t hear the results well enough. But in the magic world of the studio, one can whisper a word and it is captured, for good or ill. With a good balance in my headphones, and voice front and center, I heard the way my words broke off, low growls as words rose in my throat, the raw human edges to my voice, the elements that reveal oneself and draw people in. \u00a0I sank back further and into my cuddly couch of a Neumann 87 mic<\/a> and warm reverb, til I was slurring my consonants like a drunkard. \u00a0It felt wonderfully comfortable, instead of nerve-wracking. And the result? A rich, creamy, understated, NOT ANNOYING, vocal. To my great surprise and delight, I discovered that like any other human, i do have a voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recording my voice I get anxious when recording my voice. \u00a0My voice is like my hair – I just can’t trust it. When I really need it to shine for me, in a recording studio or a photo shoot, I just don’t know how its going to behave. My voice works for gigging\u00a0– \u00a0it’s solid, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Maybe back off a bit?<\/h3>\n
The magic world of the studio<\/h3>\n