/r/transvoice needs to pin a post that just says "PLEASE STOP OBSESSING OVER PITCH"
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/r/transvoice needs to pin a post that just says "PLEASE STOP OBSESSING OVER PITCH"
And a link to a YouTube clip show of Shohreh Aghdashloo. Pitch is so much nothing.
Yeah. Unfortunately, it's the easiest thing for various voice apps to measure, plus it's a common cultural misconception that primarily pitch feminizes the voice, so it's an easy trap for newbies
every time someone talks about voice training pitch I'm like "it practically doesn't matter, resonance is important"
Yeah, I thought the importance of resonance was common knowledge, but apparently a large number of newcomers are getting steered in the wrong direction. It could also be selection bias (people on the wrong track are more likely to post asking for help)
I avoided voice trainers for so long cos they used to be so obsessed with pitch, and when I saw one recently we had this whole lengthy conversation about how I really didn't trust his profession due to the overemphasis on pitch in the early/mid 2010s but I was coming to him because I had heard that contemporary voice training had gotten a lot better.
And it turned out it had! At least with him. He went through how for someone with less experience with voice training he would have gone through resonance and voice quality before pitch. But that I'd managed to do those to my goals already, so we'd work on pitch ๐