Exploring My Voice

[Guest Zeda]

This morning I have been practicing with my voice. For me, I very much enjoy making sounds, so I am not just trying to achieve a feminine voice in this recording. Rather, I am trying to explore different ranges and whatnot, so I switch back and forth and typically fall back to my guy voice.

If you want to listen to it, I uploaded it here on Vocaroo. I start off with a falsetto because I just realised what a falsetto actually was and I wanted to try it out. At some point I said "this is still in the masculine range" but after listening to it and analysing it, I realised that I was quite wrong. The recording device that I used had a few hiccups, so I said "two" and it came out as "bleuw" or something similar XD As well, I tried to raise sound level using Audacity so that you didn't need your speakers all the way up to almost hear it (again, the recording device isn't all that good). Because of this, you here what sounds like pterodactyls in the background from time to time.

I am posting here in the hopes of getting feedback. I have been working on my voice on and off for almost a month now, and I am finally starting to be comfortable with letting other people hear it. I think that my main focus now will be in maintaining a feminine voice. If you listen, I sometimes start out well, then I drop off and my voice gradually lowers. Or sometimes my voice starts out sounding too falsetto, then I fall down into a good range, and then I go back down to a guy range.

I also decided yesterday that I should start including my guy voice in recordings in case some people are worried about their voice. Throughout much of the recording, I give y'all a lovely sample of my lower than average male voice. My main setback has been that I am too nervous to practice out loud (I am usually paranoid), but I have started to not be too nervous about my neighbors listening in on my practice XD Now I just have to find a better recording device :[

[Guest Sarah Michelle]

I think what you are doing is good but I would choose a song sung by women. If you try to hit their high notes then it will train your voice to get higher. I loved to sing along to Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. She has some pretty high notes in that song and if you can even get close to them then you are well on your way.

Good Luck and keep practicing.

[Guest Zeda]

Yeah, I go on for quite a bit in that recording. That first song was the first one that I realised utilised the falsetto. I then go on to try "If I Die Young" and I think around 3:00 I start to use a "feminine" speaking voice.

[Guest Zeda]

Okay, I think I learned my lesson not to present my guy voice first in a four and a half minute long recording. Anyways, I got passed the fear of ridicule and started posting recordings to Facebook and I have been getting some unexpected helpful responses. It turns out I am friends with a bunch of people that aren't afraid to tell me what I sound like and some of them seem familiar with the subject.

Anyways, I couldn't practice for the past few weeks because I have been pretty sick and I lost my voice at some point for a few days. I have finally started to feel better, so I have a few recordings that I made today:

Sample 1 : I think the screaming pterodactyl sounds in the background are from poor compression algorithms. I made it this morning.

Sample 2 : I made this about a half hour ago.

Sample 3 : This juxtaposes my voices by presenting the male voice last. (Just made it a few minutes ago).

Also, I have noticed that it helps my voice immensely to go to the lowest end of my voice to warm up my vocals. I could not figure out why my voice wasn't working properly for me this morning, so I went low and found out that it was phlegm x.x I am not completely unsickified, apparently

[Guest Wendy F]

Wow, your it is soo good I'm jealous. It almost seems like people with the deepest voices end up having the best female voices.

[Guest Zeda]

Thanks, the fact that this has been working out for me has been a pretty big confidence booster, today. I was told on Facebook that it sounded good, but my spouse says that the guy in my voice can still be heard. I will be working on trying to get that out of my voice. I think that part of why it is working out nicely for me is that I have kept my vocal cords limber with all of the random noises that I like to make. I just needed to figure out how to modify it to get to the right pitch and now I need to work on perfecting it. Does anybody else have thoughts or opinions? I really don't mind bluntness, either.

[Guest Zeda]

After listening to samples posted here, I decided to try the same sample sentence with four different voices using the same sample:

Zeda, Sample

It is 22 seconds and my 'girl voice' starts at 0:17. I need a longer phrase, but I figured that given the topic, the phrase may have been designed to display the differences in masculine and feminine voices.

[Guest JazzySmurf]

Cool! :-) You're doing a great job!!

Are you still looking for opinions/advice? Ignore the rest, if not. Add more breath (possibly even breathiness) to the final version, it just seems to help, overall.

[Guest Zeda]

Thanks, and thanks for the advice! I was told by a friend that there is something distinctly masculine about my voice that I need to fix and she gave me a neat idea. She said that she once used a voice modifier to lower her voice and it still sounded like a girl because of _____ (I keep forgetting the word). So what I can try to do is get some software to lower my recorded voice and work at it until it still sounds feminine with a deeper voice. If I can achieve that, then I think I will have achieved the proper voice.