Since [Stevens, Warshofsky] at high sound intensity the brain hears a flatter pitch and therefore a singer sings flat... (a percentage of a semitone lower)..,
would this imply that a singer should listen to the music at low intensity and therefor sing not loud.
Would this imply that singing loud requiring a loud backing track would lead to pitch error not because of the vocal chords but because of the brain hearing flat.
But why some singers can sing loud and not out of tune?
Is it because they have less ear sensitivity?
Or is the answer that they do not sing loud after all.
We know [Sound on Sound article on how to make a loud mix] that the softer something is recorded the louder it sounds at reproduction.
And it is also known that loudness does not depend on intensity only, it depends on frequency band shape [Fletcher, Munson curves], how the resonant cavities of the body, (mouth, head, nose) are used to multiply the molecule excursion at certain frequency bands.
And of course it is emotional content that creates loudness out of a whispering voice [conversation with Stelios Yianakopoulos, recording engineer at EMI Columbia Athens no longer existing recording studios].
Reference:
Sound and Hearing - Stevens, Warshofsky - Life Science Series
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