A few covers for your critiquing pleasure

[BetterThanFine]

• Otherside of the Game - Erykah Badu Cover
  • No editing, except some compression to even out the volume a bit.
• Sun In My Mouth - Bjork Cover
  • ​Added some reverb.
• Save Room - John Legend Cover
  • Enhanced bass and treble dB because it didn't sound as "full" as I expected it to, but listening to it now, it sounds kinda warbly. Let me know what you hear.

Hi there. Long story short, I have a hereditary high-frequency hearing loss -- high tones sound louder to you than they do to me; lower tones, as a result, sound louder to me -- and I'm curious to hear how I sound to normal-hearing people; do I need to enunciate more, do I need to "lighten or darken" the "color" of my voice (not sure how to say this), etc. You guys have given me great advice before, but I've recently had my hearing aids turned up, so I'm having to "retune" my ears, and you can help me do that!

My main problem is that my tone sounds totally different to me if I'm not wearing hearing aids. I sound like a straight-up tenor with them, but without them, I sound like I have a baritone... color/tone, even if the notes are in the tenor range. Hopefully this is making sense; I'm not well-versed in musical terminology.

This also obviously affects how I sing. Where I used to over-enunciate (because it sounded like proper enunciation to me; everyone else sounded like they were mumbling), I now feel like I'm under-enunciating. I barely open my mouth when I sing anymore, because if I do more, it feels like I'm overdoing it. 

I'd kinda like to have a general conversation about singing with hearing loss, but I'm not sure where I'd go for that. In the meantime, please let me know what you think!

As an aside, I'm planning to record some covers that actually have instrumentals. I didn't include the instrumentals for Save Room or Otherside of the Game because they're copyrighted, and I couldn't find one for Sun In My Mouth. 

Thanks!

[Denis Gallén Iserte]

I think it´s ok, but i´d like to hear  you singing something with a wide range. To see your passagio or a powerfull chest voice and mixed voice.

 

Well done! 

[BetterThanFine]

I think it´s ok, but i´d like to hear  you singing something with a wide range. To see your passagio or a powerfull chest voice and mixed voice.

 

Well done! 

​Thanks! I did a bit of that near the end of Sun In My Mouth. I'll try to find something that does it a little more -- maybe some Radiohead or Coldplay tracks.

[Denis Gallén Iserte]

coldplay would be perfect!, maybe I´ll try to cover coldplay some day too

[Gsoul82]

• Otherside of the Game - Erykah Badu Cover
  • No editing, except some compression to even out the volume a bit.
• Sun In My Mouth - Bjork Cover
  • ​Added some reverb.
• Save Room - John Legend Cover
  • Enhanced bass and treble dB because it didn't sound as "full" as I expected it to, but listening to it now, it sounds kinda warbly. Let me know what you hear.

Hi there. Long story short, I have a hereditary high-frequency hearing loss -- high tones sound louder to you than they do to me; lower tones, as a result, sound louder to me -- and I'm curious to hear how I sound to normal-hearing people; do I need to enunciate more, do I need to "lighten or darken" the "color" of my voice (not sure how to say this), etc. You guys have given me great advice before, but I've recently had my hearing aids turned up, so I'm having to "retune" my ears, and you can help me do that!

My main problem is that my tone sounds totally different to me if I'm not wearing hearing aids. I sound like a straight-up tenor with them, but without them, I sound like I have a baritone... color/tone, even if the notes are in the tenor range. Hopefully this is making sense; I'm not well-versed in musical terminology.

This also obviously affects how I sing. Where I used to over-enunciate (because it sounded like proper enunciation to me; everyone else sounded like they were mumbling), I now feel like I'm under-enunciating. I barely open my mouth when I sing anymore, because if I do more, it feels like I'm overdoing it. 

I'd kinda like to have a general conversation about singing with hearing loss, but I'm not sure where I'd go for that. In the meantime, please let me know what you think!

As an aside, I'm planning to record some covers that actually have instrumentals. I didn't include the instrumentals for Save Room or Otherside of the Game because they're copyrighted, and I couldn't find one for Sun In My Mouth. 

Thanks!

​Hey Better,

Welcome to the forum. Please go ahead and add a picture to your profile. It helps the community. Thank you.

I listened to the Erykah Badu song and Save Room. You've got a cool tone. I don't think diction is really a problem, although you should always be mindful of that, because I can hear what you're singing clearly here. Intonation is right. Color seems appropriate.

I know you said things sound louder to you, but I'd be interested in hearing you do something louder with more power. I see you like to use your lower ranger a lot, and you like R&B, so maybe something from Anthony Hamilton, as a suggestion?

I do agree you should work on range, but that goes for everybody. Who couldn't benefit from a bigger range?

[Robert Lunte]

Before you post for our FREE "critiquing pleasure", have the courtesy to upload a picture to your profile.

Thank you.

[BetterThanFine]

Before you post for our FREE "critiquing pleasure", have the courtesy to upload a picture to your profile.

Thank you.

I want to respond to GSoul more thoroughly once I get home tonight, but I just wanted to respond to the avatar requests. I've been here off and on since 2012, and this is the first time anyone's asked me to upload a picture, much less twice in a row! I didn't realize not doing so was discourteous...

Rest assured that I'll upload one as soon as I'm able.

[BetterThanFine]

​Hey Better,

Welcome to the forum. Please go ahead and add a picture to your profile. It helps the community. Thank you.

I listened to the Erykah Badu song and Save Room. You've got a cool tone. I don't think diction is really a problem, although you should always be mindful of that, because I can hear what you're singing clearly here. Intonation is right. Color seems appropriate.

I know you said things sound louder to you, but I'd be interested in hearing you do something louder with more power. I see you like to use your lower ranger a lot, and you like R&B, so maybe something from Anthony Hamilton, as a suggestion?

I do agree you should work on range, but that goes for everybody. Who couldn't benefit from a bigger range?

​GSoul, thanks a lot for the feedback. Much appreciated.

You and Denis both had similar suggestions for more "powerful" songs, so I'm on the lookout. I have a few in mind. Maybe something by Jill Scott? I think some of her songs would kill two birds with one stone, so to speak -- she's in my upper range and she has a powerful voice.

Can you believe I've never listened to Anthony Hamilton until today? I've been missing out big time. I've had "Best Of Me" on repeat all day. So good. His voice is really smooth, and his vibrato is perfect. Thanks so much for introducing me to him.