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I recorded myself in the basement, just by myself, nothing but me and the walls. I played it back and I sounded terrible. I took it upstairs and asked my wife if that was really how I sounded and she said that was how I sounded just down in the basement by myself. A month or so later I had a set for a singer/songwriter night at a local bar and my wife videoed it. There were maybe thirty or forty people there. I sounded a lot better on her video. She says that I feed off an audience and am a lot more expressive when I have people to sing and play for. She says I'm lifeless when I'm singing to walls. I record myself a lot, but I keep that in mind when I listen to them.