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How often do you find yourself liking, or disliking, your tone when playing, then listen back on recording and have the opposite opinion? And if you do, what do you try and do to combat that?
I'm pretty happy with my tenor tone, but for both alto and soprano I think I need work. Which isn't helped by a lack of practise time! I find when I'm playing the soprano in particular, that the tone seems and feels warm, but when listening back to recordings there is too much of the oboe quality that sometimes happens with soprano, it sounds as if the whole tone has been squeezed. I'm well aware this could be the recording, but my setup isn't terrible and I've had success recording other players.
So, my question is: what sounds good to me whilst playing clearly doesn't sound the way I want, but how do you find what that sound I want to produce actually sounds like when playing? I listen back to players I like and try to build the parts of their sound that I like in to my own, but the difference between what I hear and what I produce is obviously quite different. I've no idea what those guys sounded like to their own ears whilst playing to know what qualities to work on.
I'm pretty happy with my tenor tone, but for both alto and soprano I think I need work. Which isn't helped by a lack of practise time! I find when I'm playing the soprano in particular, that the tone seems and feels warm, but when listening back to recordings there is too much of the oboe quality that sometimes happens with soprano, it sounds as if the whole tone has been squeezed. I'm well aware this could be the recording, but my setup isn't terrible and I've had success recording other players.
So, my question is: what sounds good to me whilst playing clearly doesn't sound the way I want, but how do you find what that sound I want to produce actually sounds like when playing? I listen back to players I like and try to build the parts of their sound that I like in to my own, but the difference between what I hear and what I produce is obviously quite different. I've no idea what those guys sounded like to their own ears whilst playing to know what qualities to work on.