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I so agree! It reminds me of a boxer studying films of his previous fights to see when he is dropping his guard, etc. The last thing I want is to Dunning-Kruger myself into thinking I'm singing/playing well enough when I'm not. I'm all for optimistic humility and musical "kaizen."

You make good points on both of these. I tend not to be at all defeatist in other aspects of my life, but I may be being a bit wimpy on this one and need to just keep plugging away. Thanks for reminding me!

Thanks! And normally I would sing with instruments as support, too, but just wanted to really allow people to hear the sound of this little boxy room I spend a lot of my life in. ;D

Interesting idea. I've felt bad for about 20 straight years that I got that mic as a gift and basically never used it. Your comment may be a redeemer! Thanks!

In addition to critique of the room sound I'm dealing with, I'm definitely happy to get singing critique! So, thank you. And excellent point about "news"! I tried it now with the pucker and yes, it does help! I've been thinking that what I need to do with every song is work out all of these...

That's an interesting idea about the SM57 in parallel. I will play around with it. My main concern was the room being awful to record in, as I had a friend advise me that bad rooms basically dominate recordings. I hope that isn't true for the sort of stuff I want to record. Didn't Bon Iver...

Yes, I remember you writing your take on those when you bought them. Wow, hard to believe they are so bad! I wound up buying Sennheiser HD206 headphones for now, for about $30. I didn't feel I could justify the leap to the good ones you have for about $70 until I can prove to myself I'm really...

Interesting, in that I had been thinking that the close in vocal was worse in that it sounded muddier to me, more like a 1970s family tape recorder. (I also realize I could have and maybe should have recorded it with the the focus button on my mic pushed in and that would have given it more...

Thanks, but I have no idea what this means. Can you (or someone here) define: - freeze - stem - brickwall - limit (I think I know what this is--cuts off amplitudes above a certain value?) - "ram it into the limiter with gain" / "push you voice against the brickwall" ??? Thanks!

Thanks for the response. In my house the larger rooms also have really obvious echo when I clap (plus it's not really convenient to record there). I might be able to try the basement, but it's cold and unpleasant. I think I'm relegated to this 10'x10' room for now until I someday move elsewhere...

I know you and everyone wrote this all to me in late September, but such is the protraction of my way! Anyway, I am now attaching a ~30 second clip of (not ready for time) singing in the room I have to record in. The first section, before the several hand claps, is close to the mic and then...

I have cheap ($7) headphones and want to buy a "starter" pair for recording (I do not have monitor speakers). From the suggestions in a previous thread, it seems two contenders, and they both turn out to be $30 with free shipping right now: Tascam TH-200x Sennheiser HD-206 Is there a clear...

I'm going to get something posted here soon, thanks. Learning a lot on this thread, so thanks for all the info!

If so, that's kind of a downer. I don't want to have to get an engineering degree to just sing pleasantly on recordings. I can't imagine this tech was around for all the excellent sounding vocal recordings prior to 1965. It seems like overkill and kind of moving too far toward fake, but this is...

Why is that helpful to the sound? To what degree can all of this (not just the Aural Exciter, but everything above you've mentioned) be done successfully with software?

Can you recommend any "starter" pairs for about $40 USD?

Any suggestions for the best sort of sample clip I could sing to give you the best chance of figuring out what the issue is? Can you recommend a good starter pair for under, say, $40 USD? Thanks.

Any particular type of singing sample you recommend to best assess this? The thing is, actual pro vocals from real songs do sound good on these headphones. But, I take your point: I need better headphones for listening. Any inexpensive ones (under $40 USD) you could recommend?

Would it even be worth treating such a small cube of a room?

What does this mean? (To me, Hypercard is something that ran on a Mac in the 90s!)