Your bathroom acoustics work like a resonance chamber allowing you to hear tones clearly and enabling you to correct them. This tonal awareness occurs for the same reason that you sound better in the shower. When you hear this, you can use the echo to correct your tone. Thus you will learn how it feels in your mouth and throat when you finally hit it right. This allows you to rest and relax your vocal cords.
Thus allowing you to focus more on improving your tone and control than belting out every note. This also means that when you do sing out, you can hear all the nuances of your tone. Thus giving you a clearer perception of your natural volume. On the other hand , because showering is a private activity, you can sing out as loudly as you want. Definitely without fear of judgment or critique.
This can be the great stress relief and can start your day off with a good mood and energy. It can make your throat hurt, your notes scratchy, and your tone harsh.
However , the steam released by a shower creates a humid environment ideal for singing. Thus making for a smoother tone and less wear and tear on your voice. The warmer air created by the steam also prevents your vocal cords from cooling down and becoming tight or strained.
The humidity also adds to that tonal richness you get from the acoustics. When your vocal cords are appropriately moistened, they vibrate more cleanly and produce a more smooth and consistent sound.
It also prevents your throat from drying out, so you can practice longer without straining or hurting your throat. Singing in the shower allows you to practice in a pressure-free environment. While singing in front of others may offer room for critique, singing in the shower is good for you. Turns out it is to do with the shape of the shower and what it is made up of. Most showers are made up of tiles, or other hard non-absorbent surfaces.
When we sing, or in fact make any noise, we create soundwaves. These soundwaves then travel from their source until they hit something. Since the walls of the shower are highly sound reflecting, the soundwaves bounce around very quickly and reach your ear.
This gives your singing volume, making your voice sound louder and more powerful. Secondly, there is the reverb effect. This also works off the principle of reflecting sound waves. Reverb occurs when your ear picks up many echoes in a very short time frame. As discussed above when you sing soundwaves bounce around in the shower until they reach your ear.
When the soundwaves do this however, they take many different paths. This difference in the distance the soundwave has to travel to reach your ear results in the reverb effect, making your singing sound richer and fuller. The reverb effect also helps to blur your voice, helping to even out variations in pitch. Lastly, there is resonance. But fear not all ye with commodes which stand upon carpet, even those with tile sound wildly different.
Sound waves react to the shape , size , and the material of a given space. Once you start singing all of those sounds are going to start getting reflected back into the room. Think of it kind of like a safety net. You may not be able to sing an A in tune, but you can likely get close. Not really. Shout at a cliff a few hundred meters away and chances are your message will return to sender after some delay.
One key difference between an echo and reverb is pure timing. Piano players out there may have some experience with this using the sustain pedal. That pedal opens up the strings to vibrate freely, allowing the notes to vibrate longer.
Beginners myself included tend to abuse that pedal because it hides mistakes, and creates cohesion between notes as they come in and out. In music and production, you can manipulate reverb to audibly place instruments, fill out a sound and give it more texture, or even hide away a vocal gaff. It is really neat, and now comes the fun part. Many thanks go out to producer Stefan Kartenberg for the recording, and to our singer Silke Schmiemann. The sample below is the vocal recording unaltered.
This one in particular is a completely clean recording, but we still still need a bathroom, right? The nifty thing about reverb is what we can do with space.
The size of the room is purely the distance the sound wave has to travel before its first reflection. The decay being how long that sound might stick around for before being absorbed or dissipating entirely. Ooooooooooooo , neat! A lot of decay, and a pretty large space. Did you notice all of those little extra sounds in between the words being sung? If we think about this in our bathroom scenario, what benefit does this give?
Your voice tends to get blurry as it reverberates off many surfaces, so even if you don't quite hit the exact note, it sounds closer than it would outside the shower. Adding to their sonic talents, showers even act as resonators , which means they enhance certain frequencies to deepen sound and enhance bass because of their cavity structure.
Think of it like this: If you plucked a string with Hz — which is about average for a bass guitar — it would vibrate times per second. Because your shower's acoustics make your voice's sound waves vibrate at about times per second, your voice sounds deeper and more resonant than it actually is, around Hz, on average.
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