Ever get sick of hearing your own voice?

[Denia]

Since the day I tested the microphone in my school's auditorium I've been self-concious about my voice. I'm starting to think I sound like a female version of Marlon Brando..
Weird paranoia- what to do, what to do?

 

[bm20950]

When I tested my pc mic a while back I shocked myself by revealing a HEAVY manc accent, which I was certain didn’t exist.

I’m happy in a way because everyone can tell where I’m from etc...Odd how your voice sounds different in you head..

 

[Denia]

When I tested my pc mic a while back I shocked myself by revealing a HEAVY manc accent, which I was certain didn’t exist.

I’m happy in a way because everyone can tell where I’m from etc...Odd how your voice sounds different in you head..

My voice, personally, doesn't sound different in my head. Even when I silently read, I can hear my thick New York accent. It's so annoying...

 

[wolve]

Same here: hearing my own voice (when we recorded something once) really baffled me! It sounds extremely manly...

 

[Sparks fan]

I dont think anyone likes the sound of their own voice except maybe singers and presenters who are used to it.But that is how everyone hears us of course,it`s just not how we hear ourselves unless through a mic or tape recorder which is not usually very often.

When ever I hear my voice through my video camera for example, I often say, "that`s not me" and my wife and children say in unison,"yes it is,that`s exactly how you sound"

I`ll stick to blaming the distortion on the camera mic and speaker.

 

[Dave]

Fun Fact: John Lennon hated the sound of his voice and that is one of the reasons that so many effects are used to change his voice on Beatles records.

 

[Dupree]

I dislike my voice.

When I spoke to a friend on the telephone for the first time they told me I sounded like a pixie in a box.

That was ages ago...when I went to record a voicemail message on my phone a months or so ago I was horrified, upon playing it back, to realise that yes, I do sound like a pixie in a box.

The strange thing is, I always consider Americans to have quite high voices and mine to be...not so high. I like to think that the reason my voice sounded like that was that in both situations I was uncomfortable and therefore not speaking freely as I normally would. I can't sound like a pixie in a box...surely?!

 

[wolve]

Hey, you're a forgetting this: a pixie in a box usually does look cute

 

[Dupree]

Hey, you're a forgetting this: a pixie in a box usually does look cute

I wouldn't mind looking like a pixie in the box...the problem is that I sound like one!

 

[wolve]

the thing is: I can perfectly imagine how a pixie in a box looks like, but not how a pixie in a box sounds like. What pixie are we exactly talking of? The one from Aladdin?

 

[Dupree]

Well, this is the thing...when I imagine a pixie in a box I think of Tinkerbell but she didn't speak if I remember correctly...

Also, wasn't that a genie in Aladdin?

 

[wolve]

I mixed up Aladdin with Peter Pan! Oh my! Walt Disney's probably turning in his grave!

And what about the box, what are the dimensions? Or is it a box so Tinkerbell has got to put her legs on her shoulders to fit in? Or a box so even Peter Pan can fit in? (I'm asking all these questions so I can imagine the sound to the fullest )

edit: oh, Tinkerbell does speak, but not human-language. Well, it's more these sounds as if someone tickles her or pinches her belly or something

 

[Dupree]

You do like the specifics, don't you Wolve? I always imagine it as quite a small box but big enough for Tink to fit in...probably big enough for Tink to lie down diagonally. And not quite tall enough for her to stand up in.

 

[wolve]

So she'd sound just the same as if she would be out of the box? And is there a sort of 'cap' on the box? Her sound would be a lot different if she would lack air...

Now I'm all in the mood again to watch Aladdin tonight!

 

[Pervomartovtsi]

always except on wednesdays,that day I don't talk

 

[wolve]

why not?

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

no way!

 

[Pervomartovtsi]

because I don't go to Uni,so I'm alone all day long

 

[Dave]

If there isn't a song called Pixie in a Box then there should be.

 

[mjp]

It has been said of me many times in the past that I can not suffer from this sickness, not the way I go on.

But you must please remember, instruments used to record/amplify your voice are merely jealous of your abilities and so put their own little spin on it.

That's the philosophy that worked for me on Saturday night in a karaoke bar. 5 times.