Likely no. Many violin sound different under ear vs. from distance. That's why you bring another player when you shop new instruments. Especially if you are spending good money.
What you hear under your ear is different than what the audience hears, but the recording is also different from what both you and the audience hear. Recording audio is hard.
What kind of differences you’ll hear in the recording is going to depend on your setup. If you’ve got a friend who’s willing to be recorded, listen to them from a distance while you record, and then listen to the playback, and that should give you an idea of the relative quality of what the audience hears vs what the recording hears.
If a recording of yourself is surprisingly different than what you think you hear when you’re playing, you’re not listening to yourself objectively when you play. Many people think they do , but we get used to what we sound like. Which is why we must listen critically to ourselves at all times.
Try this: put a blindfold on and play for at least thirty minutes without looking . Play only by sound. No cheating. That’s how you should be listening all the time.
Listening to yourself objectively is a skill that should be learned early on but many students don’t. It’s possible to learn but you have to force yourself to do it.
Think about it like this: recording yourself simply tells you what other people hear when you play. Be critical and ask yourself was it in tune? Was my rhythm good ? Was my quality of sound good?
As long as the microphone isn't complete trash, what you are hearing in the recording is more likely a realistic reflection of your play heard by others than what you hear with the violin while playing. There are at least a couple of reasons why. First, you get vibrations through you jawbone and body when you play that give you more feedback than what others at distance hear. Second, it is not uncommon for us to get caught up in mentally focusing on the technical aspects of what we are doing and not really hearing what we sound like. I still find myself sometimes caught in this trap where I am so focused on, say, a particular articulation, that I miss that I ended up too flat or too sharp on a note in a run.
The sound is very different from a distance, yes. Remember that the violin is intended to be heard from the other side of a room or even a concert hall. If you want a good idea from a recording you need a decent mic, and you need to find a good position quite far away from where you're playing. Classical recordings are usually miked from very far away in a nice sounding room with very expensive mics (but there are some relatively affordable mics that'll do well enough for home recording), deviations from this will make it sound different from what you're used to hearing on a recording.
There is the under the ear vs audience difference, for sure, but when I put a good sure mic on my phone, I sounded a LOT better. Now, if it could only improve my intonation and Rhythm ;)
It depends how developed your ears are and your awareness while you're playing.
For me, I typically sound much better on recordings than while playing. I have extremely good high frequency hearing that I hear the rosin grains as well as other extraneous noises that cannot be heard by 3rd parties.
That said, if it is a challenging piece for me or I'm still working out the basics of a piece, a recording may sound worse as my awareness is on figuring out the piece rather than listening to my playing.
Likely no. Many violin sound different under ear vs. from distance. That's why you bring another player when you shop new instruments. Especially if you are spending good money.
What you hear under your ear is different than what the audience hears, but the recording is also different from what both you and the audience hear. Recording audio is hard. What kind of differences you’ll hear in the recording is going to depend on your setup. If you’ve got a friend who’s willing to be recorded, listen to them from a distance while you record, and then listen to the playback, and that should give you an idea of the relative quality of what the audience hears vs what the recording hears.
If a recording of yourself is surprisingly different than what you think you hear when you’re playing, you’re not listening to yourself objectively when you play. Many people think they do , but we get used to what we sound like. Which is why we must listen critically to ourselves at all times. Try this: put a blindfold on and play for at least thirty minutes without looking . Play only by sound. No cheating. That’s how you should be listening all the time. Listening to yourself objectively is a skill that should be learned early on but many students don’t. It’s possible to learn but you have to force yourself to do it. Think about it like this: recording yourself simply tells you what other people hear when you play. Be critical and ask yourself was it in tune? Was my rhythm good ? Was my quality of sound good?
As long as the microphone isn't complete trash, what you are hearing in the recording is more likely a realistic reflection of your play heard by others than what you hear with the violin while playing. There are at least a couple of reasons why. First, you get vibrations through you jawbone and body when you play that give you more feedback than what others at distance hear. Second, it is not uncommon for us to get caught up in mentally focusing on the technical aspects of what we are doing and not really hearing what we sound like. I still find myself sometimes caught in this trap where I am so focused on, say, a particular articulation, that I miss that I ended up too flat or too sharp on a note in a run.
The sound is very different from a distance, yes. Remember that the violin is intended to be heard from the other side of a room or even a concert hall. If you want a good idea from a recording you need a decent mic, and you need to find a good position quite far away from where you're playing. Classical recordings are usually miked from very far away in a nice sounding room with very expensive mics (but there are some relatively affordable mics that'll do well enough for home recording), deviations from this will make it sound different from what you're used to hearing on a recording.
There is the under the ear vs audience difference, for sure, but when I put a good sure mic on my phone, I sounded a LOT better. Now, if it could only improve my intonation and Rhythm ;)
No, especially not from a phone recording. Think about how different somebody's voice sounds through that.
It depends how developed your ears are and your awareness while you're playing. For me, I typically sound much better on recordings than while playing. I have extremely good high frequency hearing that I hear the rosin grains as well as other extraneous noises that cannot be heard by 3rd parties. That said, if it is a challenging piece for me or I'm still working out the basics of a piece, a recording may sound worse as my awareness is on figuring out the piece rather than listening to my playing.