u/OrdinaryTruck5559

I tried out this straw technique this week, and it did feel like it helped warming up/practicing, with less strain. What I’m wondering is, how does this help you when it’s time for the gig? Beyond reduced fatigue from practicing, how do you translate these techniques from singing through a straw, to singing into a microphone?

The main reason I even tried this is there are certain songs where the parts that shouldn’t strain me do, and the parts that should strain me don’t.

Numb by linkin park for example, whenever I sing this song, my throat like tightens up and I get muscle soreness in my throat, very quickly. Then when it’s time for that big heavy chorus, tension is gone and it doesn’t make me sore at all. I imagine this straw technique will help me with this, but I don’t understand how it will translate.

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I’ve been googling and finding everything BUT any sort of answer to my question

I read a comment one time with something to the effect of “a Bluetooth JBL speaker is the final boss of mix checks” and I thought that was both hilarious and pretty accurate. But lately I’ve noticed I may have found an even harsher “final boss”

In my living room I have the standard tv with Samsung sound bar and subwoofer, nothing special, just can’t watch tv in the living room with tv speakers bla bla bla.

Anyways, I’ve found this friggin soundbar much tougher than even a mono Bluetooth speaker. I initially used it just for something other than the car but I also wanted to hear the low end of my songs on a subwoofer. I could hear a kind of disjointed sound in this song I’m working on right now, sounded good in headphones, good in the car, but just disjointed on this soundbar/subwoofer thing.

I almost feel like I should stop checking on this one source as it sounds much better every other source I’ve checked on.