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From:  John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...>
Date:  Mon Aug 21, 2000  7:54 pm
Subject:  how we sound on a recording, was: My first Chicago Performance


Just a few minutes ago a contralto I know (yes, a real one!) was showing me
a little memo gadget that she has: she spoke into it and the sound that
came out was even darker than her normal speaking voice. I tried it and my
voice came out much lighter with less presence in the low notes (noted by
her rather than just subjective). I immediately formed the (testable?)
opinion that her lower resonances were just in the range that the little
device reproduced the best, and that mine were too low for it. I think this
is so to a greater or lesser degree with all recording equipment, and Dre's
suggestion to Lisa to compare other voices on the same recording is likely
to be quite instructive! john

At 09:50 AM 8/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
>--- Lisa M Olson <lisa_molson@m...> wrote:
>(...)I got great feedback afterwards. (...)
>> The ODD thing was that when I heard myself on the
>> tape (granted, it wasn't a great tape) it sounded
>> NOTHING like me. People have told me that my voice
>> has gained a richness that was never there before.
>> But I haven't listened to my voice in about a year,
>> and it was so DARK.
...>...
>some people don't even need that, they seem to be able
>to bias the sound coming from a bad stereo set to
>something that sounds like the real thing.
>Dre

John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada


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