Do You Like (Or Hate) Your Voice?

[morejaylesswar]

I hate my voice. It's a bit strong. I have a generally deep speaking voice, so I tend to overpower a lot of things. I've been trying to find my medium for years.

 

[Spaghetti]

I sometimes make a recording of my voice and think...oh that's not bad. Other times I detest it and wish I sounded like someone else! Sooo - I went for the mixed feelings option.

 

[GazBrady]

I mostly am happy with it i think, people seem to like it more than i do though...

 

[Squaremad]

I have a terrible voice

 

[chelsea_t]

I don't have a good voice but I love music. I love to sing so I live with it. But I don't sing when I'm with people who can really sing..hehe

 

[Clam Soup]

I used to dislike the sound of my voice ... until I heard it a billion times. It took years though to hear it the way others do. Now I do love it... or whatever is going to be left of it when I'm done.

 

[Buri Studios]

Personally I really like my voice... but then again everybody seems to like their voice and then they get up on American Idol and embarass themselves soooo I suppose 'not' liking your voice is more of a good thing since it means you can tell you have room for improvement.

 

[sooperdooper]

I'm a closet musician so nobody else has heard my singing voice To me it sounds horrible though. Well, maybe not horrible...but bland and without much character.

 

[shoppa25]

i do a little bit on a tascam 8 track,i fucking hate my voice....so hey listened to one track...dont be so hard on yourself bud,your voice is cool

 

[RSJ]

Sometimes I like mine, other times I don't. Hearing yourself back isn't really going to be too good at the best of times is it really

 

[Goldilox]

I was always told I "couldn't sing" at school, but I eventually started singing live, just because I was playing solo or with other non-singers at the time. Now I thoroughly enjoy singing, and I'm confident in it, but I'm not sure how far I like the sound of my own voice on recordings. There's nothing massively wrong with it, I just don't think I'm necessarily the kind of singer I'd enjoy listening to myself!

 

[Ramifn]

I like my voice, although I know that I can get so much better and gain more experience

 

[wallystripes]

When I started singing I loved my voice, since it was similar to the voice of my favorite singer at that time. As I moved on and started listening to new kinds of music I found that most singers I liked had a higher pitched voice which was kind of disapointing, since I was unable to sing those songs. Now I can sing them, and I like my voice, but feel I really have to push my voice's limits to get that singing style.

 

[Symbiot]

There will always be an uncomfortable period that you have to get through. It was awkward and strange to hear my voice at first, but first I got used to it, then I learned what I liked about it, and eventually developed a style that fits me. It's really just a matter of experience and overcoming insecurity.

 

[espritbonne]

Hate. Or hated, at least.

Really, REALLY hated it. Until I found out it was 'different' in a good way, according to other people. And then I was offered a job in commercial radio just as I was graduating college, and this weird voice of mine has been making money for me ever since. I never would have imagined this as I was growing up, and people were teasing me about my voice. Wish I knew then what I know now, so I could have had a great response for them. Nah. They wouldn't have believed me. I wouldn't have believed me, either.

 

[CrowsofFritz]

For singing, I like my voice. I really like it actually.

Just talking, I FUCKING HATE IT. I sound really annoying. I sound like a hippie who has taken wayyy too many drugs.

 

[arcadeko]

I'd like to run into my voice in a dark alley and beat the crap out of it

 

[grimtraveller]

I'd like to run into my voice in a dark alley and beat the crap out of it

That can be arranged.

 

[rocksure]

I have always struggled a bit with trying to like the sound of my own voice. If I am speaking normally it sounds nasally and boring to me. If however I talk in some stupid foreign accent I sound much better to me lol. As far as singing goes, I have a couple of brothers' who have reputations round the place here in NZ based on the awesome range and power of their voices and are a couple of the best singers I know of. So, it's hard for me to compete with them Actually, let me re-phrase that. I don't even bother trying to compete with them 'cos I can't. When I record my voice I usually do quite afew takes and choose the best one, often phrase by phrase, and by the time it has reverbs and delays etc on it and it is in a mix I often get compliments on it. I don't always like it (sometimes I do), but I have been told many times by other people that they love the way I sang such and such a thing. So these days unless I am 99% happy with something I have sung/recorded I get rid of the evidence lol.

 

[RockinRobby]

I've been singing all my life and folks tell me I have a talent for it. It's my passion.