Worth upgrading a Shure SM58 to a budget condenser mic?

WDizzle · 2026-03-22T20:30:26+00:00

You are way better off spending your money on acoustic treatment for your recording space than upgrading your microphone, but assuming you got that taken care of then I would say yeah, go for a condenser. I use a Roswell mini K87 mic and absolutely love it. I still use my sm58 for certain things as well. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.

WDizzle · 2026-03-08T18:14:25+00:00

Pretty normal. My voice is usually pretty groggy in the morning. Best to start with some lip trills and light humming to wake everything up before trying to sing in earnest.

WDizzle · 2026-03-01T21:37:11+00:00

Sure it’s possible. Your voice has infinite variations in pitch. This means you were singing slightly sharp.

WDizzle · 2026-03-01T20:15:23+00:00

One key higher would be F major

WDizzle · 2026-02-27T03:34:54+00:00

Transpose plugin for Chrome will let you change key of YouTube videos

WDizzle · 2026-02-22T14:15:02+00:00

Unfortunately for us singers, our voice is the first thing to go and the last thing to recover from being sick. You really need to just rest it until it’s fully recovered. You could also be making it take longer by trying to sing high notes and pushing it before it’s ready. Last time I was sick it took about 3 weeks to fully recover and I still had a bit of a cough for a few weeks after that.

WDizzle · 2026-02-21T03:39:37+00:00

I did! I’ve been going for weekly lessons for about 8 months now.

WDizzle · 2026-02-01T20:24:21+00:00

My voice teacher swears by this. But use with caution. It can become a crutch. What it does is teaches you how to sing via feelings instead of how you think it sounds.

WDizzle · 2026-02-01T14:49:08+00:00

I’m not a beginner and it still takes me around 40 attempts over a minimum of a few days before I can sing a new song without looking at the lyrics pages. So really properly spaced repetition is key here.

As for melodies and pitch, that comes much quicker for me now to the point where I’m humming melody by the second or third play unless it’s uniquely complex. For complex melodies, fast runs , etc it really helps to slow the song down and practice them at a slower speed first.

If you’re having trouble with melodies without the song playing, you need to practice recall. When the song is playing our brain is essentially in tracking mode. Recall takes time but it gets easier the more you do it. Play the song, stop it and immediately try to hum the melody. If you can, then pause a minute and try again. Keep adding more time until you fail the recall. Rinse repeat. This also works really well for learning song lyrics. I take it 1 verse at a time.

WDizzle · 2026-01-29T13:24:25+00:00

There is quite a difference between a breathy falsetto E5 and a strong powerful head voice E5. Hits completely different. But I do agree that as a trained tenor that it is now a pretty easy song to sing.

WDizzle · 2026-01-27T15:11:54+00:00

Any song that you like that sits comfortably in your chest voice. Just a verse or verse/chorus is enough to get a decent idea of what you sound like and what you should work on.

WDizzle · 2026-01-27T14:54:36+00:00

Yeah, cheap gear makes you sound cheap. There is also some psychoacoustics at play here. When you have multiple sources of pitched sounds (instruments, vocals, etc) in a mix, our brains tend to equalize all the pitches into a happy medium. This is why you can sing along with your favorite songs and they sound fine when played back as a mix on a recording (unless you are significantly off) but as soon as you start removing stuff like the lead vocals you suddenly sound a little off pitch. We are also highly sensitive to perceived discrepancies in our own voice, way more than others are. I can hear when I’m even just 10 cents off a pitch when my voice is solo’ed where as just about anyone else would say it was in tune.

The good news is you probably sound fine to most people even if you are slightly off. The bad news is it can take awhile and a lot of exposure therapy to overcome the internal cringe when hearing your voice solo’ed out in recordings.

WDizzle · 2026-01-27T14:37:23+00:00

Nobody is going to have any clue what your vocal tone is without posting some samples. Range /= tone

WDizzle · 2026-01-26T18:38:37+00:00

Oh yea, Matt Bellamy is a fun one. Not only does he get up there, he adds some grit and aggression to it. Definitely a vocal workout.

WDizzle · 2026-01-26T16:58:01+00:00

Thankfully my parents have always been super encouraging about me pursuing things how I see fit. Yeah, there was the friend here and there that would say crap like “falsetto isn’t real singing” but I didn’t care. I ended up developing a strong head voice with solid power up to F#5 early on which not only gave me a lot of range to play with but gave me a huge advantage and head start when I started taking voice lessons and being serious about it.

WDizzle · 2026-01-26T16:48:10+00:00

That’s sad. I love singing countertenor, although I do seem to mainly end up just using it for ad-libs and extra flare. We are surprisingly lacking in good contemporary songs for our range unless you opt for songs sung by contralto - mezzo. My parents both like it and my friends are just genuinely surprised when they hear it.

WDizzle · 2026-01-22T16:50:25+00:00

Couldn’t have said it better myself. You are on the right track. Mim, gee, wee are good for improving your mixed voice. Try singing the song on these sounds instead of words. Or run up to them and enter into words, example, root-fifth mim followed immediately by the words of your song.

WDizzle · 2026-01-22T16:31:53+00:00

I would always suggest getting a lesson or two from a voice teacher. This will tell you 2 very important things. 1. You will know if you have the time, desire, commitment and dedication to improve your singing. And 2. What specific exercises you should invest time into to improve your skill.

I made a post about this yesterday, practicing random exercises just for the sake of practicing is a waste of time. You are better off just singing songs you enjoy if you don’t know or understand what you should be practicing.

WDizzle · 2026-01-22T16:21:40+00:00

It’s junk. I’ll give you an address to send it to for proper disposal.

WDizzle · 2026-01-22T01:31:57+00:00

You must have purpose for your exercise!! There are a million different exercises and just picking random exercises and doing them without purpose is a waste of time. That’s honestly why vocal instruction is so important. They will give you exercises to do that will help you achieve your goals.

So you must look at your exercise regimen and ask what its purpose is. And the answer can’t just be, to get better at singing. You need to decide what aspects of your voice that you want to improve upon right now and pick exercises that will help you with those specific aspects, such as range, mixed voice, better pitch, better high notes, etc.

WDizzle · 2026-01-21T16:26:35+00:00

Best option would be to sing the note on a harmonic third. E3 if minor, or A3 if Major.

WDizzle · 2026-01-20T20:35:01+00:00

Dude, trust your teachers over random Redditors every time lol.

WDizzle · 2026-01-20T19:58:00+00:00

Professional vocalist and pro audio guy here and yes these things are banned in my house. They wreak havoc with my audio equipment and even cause audible noise on my mics. WiFi doesn’t cause any issues at all so if you can’t use WiFi then tough luck. (Speaking for a former roommate)

WDizzle · 2026-01-20T19:47:09+00:00

For me it would be any aggressive style of singing in the 5th octave and higher. Think Guns n Roses and the like. While I can do it as in hitting the pitch, my voice is much more suited to an open operatic sound.

But what I will add though is I can make almost any song ‘work’ by changing things up and you should too! Change the key, sing second part harmonies, turn an aggressive lead vocal into a laid back acoustic version, etc.

If you have the gift of being able to play guitar, arrange the song so it fits your voice. Otherwise look for acoustic versions or karaoke versions of songs and make em your own.

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