How to Make Your Voice Sound Higher?

To make your voice sound higher, you will want to practice relaxing your throat muscles for easier voice control. Then you can apply vocal and breathing exercises to learn to engage the right muscles and increase your vocal capacity.

Finally, utilizing your nasal cavities, practicing reading and recording yourself will help to fine-tune the high voice you want.

Relax throat muscles

First of all, to be able to control your voice better, you need to make your upper body muscles become loose and flexible. Try relaxing your whole upper body, mouth and throat muscles with stretching exercises and yawning.

The relaxed muscles around your larynx will allow more flexibility and will expand your vocal capabilities, making it easier to achieve a high voice.

Engage and release throat

Perform this exercise where you create “ahh” sound by engaging your vocal cords and then releasing them for a released sound.

This exercise will teach you to control your vocal cords better. I’ve added a video for more details.

Once you master the technique, practice the exercises in varying pitch by going as high as you can.

Breathing exercises

Breathing exercises are great for increasing your lung capacity. By default, we usually breathe shallow breaths.

Try implementing diaphragm breathing to involve more muscles and provide more air into your lungs. This will help to maintain a high-pitched voice for longer.

Otherwise, you risk lacking air to maintain the change in pitch, which is more demanding than your natural voice.

To give your lungs more air, try strengthening your diaphragm by laying down on a bed and putting some weight onto the belly, then breathe using the diaphragm muscles.

You will know that you are breathing through the diaphragm once it feels as if your tummy is filling up when breathing and your shoulders don’t rise as much.

This exercise will give you more air to work with and set you up to maintain a high-pitched voice for longer.

Use your nasal cavities

Try speaking more through your noise which will add some nasal qualities to the voice.

Nasal voice sounds more brittle and higher-pitched. When speaking, you should emphasize resonating within the upper part of your face mask where the nose is.

Practice reading in a higher voice

Practice using a high voice when reading. Pick up any book or article and read it in your highest voice. Continue reading with a high-pitched voice until your voice gets tired.

Spending 10 or so minutes daily reading in a high pitch voice will make you feel more comfortable using the voice and it will start sounding more natural once you get a hang of it.

Record yourself

Record yourself to see how your voice develops and track your progress while achieving a high voice.

In addition, there are apps such as Vocular that can measure the pitch in which you are speaking. This will help to accurately assess your progress and motivate you.

When recording, you will notice flaws that you make, which otherwise can be unnoticeable.

Use EQ

If you don’t perform live you can use EQ after recording to make your voice sound higher.

Try cutting all frequencies below 60Hz, as they are redundant anyway. Then reduce all frequencies up to 500Hz by 3-4dB. This will reduce low-end frequencies and will make high-end frequencies of your voice more audible.

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How to Make Microphone Sound Bad?

You can make the microphone sound bad and distorted using various effects on a DAW such as EQ, Reverb and Distortion or by exporting using low-quality audio settings.

Otherwise, if you don’t want to use any effects you can make the microphone sound bad by speaking or shouting very loud into it which will create an audio clipping effect and cause distortion.

Breathing into the microphone and loud mouth clicks will add an extra dimension to the bad audio you desire.

Here is a clean audio sample and we will try and work with it when applying effects to make it sound bad:

Normal audio

Speak close to the microphone

Try speaking very close to the microphone, whereas you are almost touching it. If you have a pre-amp, you can turn up the gain knob to make your audio louder for even less pleasant audio experience. Otherwise, you can add some volume later in post with any audio editing software.

DISCLAIMER:

REDUCE YOUR VOLUME BEFORE LISTENING

Speaking close to the microphone

Shout into the microphone

Shout into the microphone. If combined with speaking close to the mic this will create an ultimate bad quality microphone sound.

Shouting from a close distance into the microphone will cause clipping as you will overburden the microphone’s diaphragm. Also, shouting will make you breathe harder and this will cause extra plosives to make the audio sound even worse.

Breathe into the microphone

Have you noticed how awful audio sounds when recorded outside in a windy environment? You can replicate that by recording outside, or you can also breathe heavily into the diaphragm to achieve similar bad audio quality.

The microphone is sensitive to the air that is hitting the diaphragm, hence any puffs of air coming from your mouth will cause bad distortions.

Add background noise

You can add background noise by creating it in the background. Computer fans, heaters, open windows work well for creating bad background noise. Just playing white noise audio while recording will also do, or you can add any sort of noise when editing your audio in post if you plan to do so.

I’ve recorded background noise here by turning up the gain knob all the way up and recording my background noise which mostly consisted of computer fans nearby.

I’ve recorded the noise within this recording myself, you can download and use it any way you want without any restrictions.

Audio with background noise
Background noise

Cause mouth clicks

Add some mouth clicks to make your audio sound worse. When speaking into the microphone touch the roof of your mouth with the tongue and smack your lips often. The saliva breaking will create a bad listening experience.

Or you can use this recording sample and add it to the mix

Mouth clicks

Distortion effect

The distortion effect as the name suggests will distort your audio making it sound bad. You can adjust distortion levels to your liking.

Although, if you don’t want to edit audio in DAW, a similar effect can be achieved by speaking loud and close to the microphone and utilizing audio clipping.

Distortion effect
Distorted microphone sound effect

Export in poor quality

Try exporting audio in low quality to make it sound bad. Adjust sample and bit rate to the lowest possible.

8000Hz sample rate and 8 bit depth MP3 settings will make your audio sound hollow and low quality.

Exporting in low quality MP3 settings
Audio exported as low quality mp3

Add reverb

You can add reverb while recording in an echo-y space such as a bathroom or any large room. The less soft furniture in the room the more echo you will hear. Sound waves hitting back and forth between the walls and then reaching the microphone will create the echo effect.

Otherwise, you can use a reverb effect, any DAW has it. You can use Audacity if you don’t want to spend money.

Here’s what you can come up with the reverb effect:

Audio with reverb
Reverb settings

Cut frequencies using an equalizer

Try messing around with the equalizer (EQ) and cutting various frequencies to obtain a desired bad audio quality.

Cut ‘lows’ and ‘highs’ to achieve bad phone quality audio

Cut low and high-end frequencies to achieve phone or portable radio quality audio. The more you will cut the poorer the audio quality will be. If you cut more high-end frequencies you will achieve unintelligible audio and cutting low-end frequencies will remove any warmth within your voice and make it sound tiny.

Phone or portable radio quality audio
Cut ‘low’ and ‘high’ frequencies for phone call quality

In this example, I’ve cut frequencies below 500Hz and above 2kHz to achieve phone call quality audio. It is still audibly clear as the main audible frequencies are in the mid-range which we preserved. But it has lost pleasant qualities since we cut lows and highs.

Conclusion

Now let’s combine everything we’ve got here to create the worst sounding microphone effect.

DISCLAIMER:

Before listening lower your volume.

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