What is wrong with my voice?

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I love to sing. I've been singing my whole life. Now I practice for at least an hour everyday and have been doing so for several years. My vocal range is OK, I can go fairly low and fairly high, and I usually hit the notes spot on. But whenever I record myself it sounds bloody terrible. I've sung in front of people before, only one song though, and they had said it was really good. So I sing and practice more and then record myself and I hate my voice. The very tone of it irritates. I'm definitely going to start singing lessons after my finals in April, but until then, can somebody give any advice other than "That sounds horrible, you can't sing!" (I posted here about five years ago with a different handle and that was the only response I got). I know it doesn't sound good, I just want to know the problem and what I can do to fix it.

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It sounds to me like you're trying to fit some sound or style that your voice doesn't want to do. It also sounds like you sing timidly and through your throat instead of from your diaphragm. Man up. Be yourself and sing like you mean it.
 
You need to follow Greg's advice and just go for it like your life depended on it. Bellow it out with feeling!
 
Yes there is no diaphram in there, sounds like you were trying to keep from waking up your parents.
 
Are you a smoker. You sound pretty off key, raspy and you have no projection.
 
Ok, first post on the forum, but I hope to be fairly active on it....

I think there are more recording technique problems than voice, at least at this point. The levels are bad, you have way too many plosives, and too many effects. If you want help with your voice you need to step up to the mic, use your diaphram as others have recommended and *sing*. Your singing is apologetic right now. You will never gain an audience that way. You are pitchy, especially on that `Ohhhhhhh' towards the end of the recording. That was painful. Sorry. Just to be redundant, step up to the mic, sing unapologetically and lose the effects. That will help people help you.

Oh, and never give up! There are good moments, what little timbre I can hear from your voice over the guitar has promise.
 
^ all of these.
better mic'n/recording techniques, get a pop filter or foam cover, or learn to sing into the mic without the explotives.
Practice the vocal line more, plan where the best place to take you breath is at.
research singing techniques, or take some lessons.
Not sure if you played the instrument, and sang at the same time, but if you did. Try recording the instrument, then go back and record the vocals on a different track (if you have that option).
 
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You haven't got a bad voice. You just need practice, belief and to relax a bit. You sound tense, like someone on a train at rush hour who is desperate to fart. Sometimes, you just have to let go and hang what anyone thinks.
 
I think that you need to train your voice more, you say you sing for an hour a day but doing what? you need to dp breathing exercises and lots of legato exercises. When you sing you are not connecting the sound from your diaphragm. Try singing each line in one continual breath and make sure you take enough breath before. Practice breathing in and breathing out an even stream of air in a certain amount of time, starting from counting to 5, then 6, then 7 and so on. can also do this on a hum. When you sing the sound should feel like it is resonating in the front of the face not in your throat. Check seth riggs speech level singing online. Like someone early said the pitching is a bit out and you can also help by improving on your diction to make the words clearer.

Good Luck
 
Greg is really right! You're singing tmidly and not hitting the tones that you want. Be NATURAL! I believe you can do it if you really man up and reach that certain tone that you want. Also, sing through your diaphragm
 
Yeah, that is the most important when singing. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody listening will either. Give it everything you have. Then practice, and do it better and with more conviction.
 
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