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I hate loud bars & restaurants too. It’s not just hard to hear & understand when people are talking; it wrecks my voice when I try to talk loud enough to be heard over the noise.
There’s a trick which does help, though it makes you sound quite ridiculous. The secret is to “talk above the noise”. Not “louder”, but “higher”.
Most noise in bars & clubs is at a certain pitch. That pitch is relatively low, since it’s a blend of everyone’s voices, and the music (heavy on the bass). To talk above it, you talk like Lina Lamont (the squeaky-voiced blonde, in “Singin in the Rain”). Your voice will be easy to hear, since it’s pitched well above the low cacophony of the rest of the noise. You’ll sound really weird—but if you’re like me, that won’t bother you.
This technique also protects your voice somewhat, because it’s not the high notes that will strain your voice; it’s the low ones in your chest register. Julie Andrews destroyed her voice, belting out all those low-pitched songs in the Broadway version of “Victor-Victoria”. If she’d sung them in her usual higher voice, she’d have been all right.
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