Vocal Dissonance
I’ve been working away at some projects for couple weeks now and submitting and auditioning and all the good stuff. But I’m having a mental issue (or maybe it’s not mental I’m not sure). I know that your voice sounds different to you than to others but I always thought I was capable of having a wide and varied vocal style and range. To me lots of “voices” I’m able to do sound nothing like myself but when I’m hearing the recordings back all I’m hearing is “me”.
I’ve been told by others that my voice is good and are sometimes surprised by the things I can do with it. Various accents and tonalities, mixing grit and smoothness etc so I’ve got external references, but to me, personally, all I hear is myself in all the variants.
Is this something I’ll get over or grow out of? It’s not in the same vain of sounding different in my head compared to real life I’m used to not sounding exactly what I think i do. I’m more meaning in the spectrum of “character voices” all I hear is myself where in people like Seth McFarlane for example some of his characters sound nothing like him and I can’t really hear his speaking voice in the characters.
I’m just looking for advice from a community that may have the experience with this thing? I know also it’s hard to fully judge my voice itself without any examples but I don’t think it’s fully necessary for this discussion. Unless others think it is. I’m also late 20s so my voice is more settled than that of a teenager. I may also be rambling this is my longest post ever.
Also let me know if I’m not fully getting my point across. It’s not a disconnect in my head it’s that I hear too much of “me” in a character that I don’t think sounds like me whatsoever
Thank you for your time and discussion