Does there exist a singer's muzzle or silencer?
I'd like to be able to sing full voice in the middle of the dead of night and when the other tenants are in the apartments and residences. Does there exist a singer's muzzle or silencer? Something which would quite my voice? I'm partially deaf so its important that I not expose myself to my voice at full strength all the time but still practice.
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Do a Google search on "vocal isolation booth" and you will find many companies that sell these devices. They the size of a walk-in closet, and they are expensive. But this is the only really effective option for an apartment.
If you are concerned about a "muzzle or silencer" then you don't really understand how singing works, and you don't understand how your ears work either.
Anything that would "muzzle" the mouth or the voice would severely alter the way that you form words and sounds, and severely alter the way that you form the notes themselves. You would sing in a way that would ruin your singing technique because you could not form the notes and sounds correctly, you could not hear them correctly, and you would train yourself to sing wrong with the wrong technique. (not to mention that you would probably have a lot of trouble breathing!)
More importantly, [to the best of my knowledge as an experienced singer who is university-trained in singing and music, but who is not a healthcare professional] there is no way to "control my ears' exposure" to your own voice in your own head.
With regard to your hearing, when you hear the sound of your own voice when you sing or speak, your ears are picking up the sounds that come from within your body, through bone conduction within your skull, to a much greater degree than they are picking up sounds that come from outside your body through your outer ears. There is no way to muffle this or reduce its volume. So doing something to plug up your ears would not help with regard to hearing the sound of your own voice. This would be counterproductive as well.
Your question indicates that you don't really understand how singing works, and how singing affects hearing. Therefore I suggest that you get some singing lessons from a professional voice teacher. If necessary because of your hearing loss, perhaps you would also need some therapy from a healthcare professional who works with people with hearing loss, or with speech therapy or vocal rehabilitation therapy. You need enough lessons with a professional to learn about how your singing voice works, and how to use it.
Singing well is all about learning to hear your own voice and learning to make pleasing sounds with pleasing vocal technique. In order to do this you have to sing freely with no restrictions, and you have to hear freely with no restrictions. Anything else and you will be producing ugly sounds, training yourself to become accustomed to ugly sounds, and removing your ability to tell the difference between ugly sounds and pleasing sounds being produced by your own voice. There is no point to that.
There are plenty of tricks. I guess the cheapest way to do this is to hang bed sheets on your walls, egg boxes or foam that is shaped like it. However, depending on how thick the walls are in your building, it will not be enough... These are the 3 most commonly used and cheapest solutions, but they are also the least effective...
There is. It's pretty cool, but I forget what it's called a belt box! It's a device you can buy that's shaped like an oxygen mask and makes a full on loud belt very very quiet. Made for practicing in apartments and at odd hours. Google "belt ya face off"
Well, a pillow. The problem of most silencers, namely different response and resonances and sound characteristics is, of course, acerbated since the voice is very much driven by sensory and acoustic feedback. So that is not a realistic solution.
More realistic would be a practice chamber, namely a sound-proofed cabin you build somewhere in your apartment. Again, the acoustics are not really optimal for singing but way better than what you might expect with devices deserving the title "muzzle or silencer".
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