When you re singing for the public, you obviously want to sound your best, but you know it will never be perfect. A note sung slightly flat, a missed note on the guitar, these vanish into thin air the moment they appear. Your audience is left with the overall impression. They judge the performance by whether they like your song and your performance. In the studio, you may feel a bit out of place at first.
Many singers have a hard time listening to the sound of their own voice.
It s a bit like looking at a beautiful painting from a ways off, and it looks perfect until closer inspection reveals flaws not previously seen. If you put a section of the painting under a microscope and examine it even more closely, you begin to spot even more imperfections. Cracks in the paint, colors blurred, bits of dirt and dust clinging to it. When you sing in the studio, your voice is put under a microscope, so to speak. Everything is revealed, good or bad.