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Nicely done @Michelle_in_PSL. You are developing a very natural and steady strumming pattern. And of course, your voice is excellent as always.
Yes, your voice was hard to hear. But there was nothing wrong with your sound. I was the same sound quality as always. That’s what you hear when someone is strumming a full size acoustic guitar with a pick and singing at the same time. The guitar overwhelms the voice.
Solution? Well, there are different ways. One is to use a different mic that doesn’t pick up your guitar very well. (Acoustic guitars, especially with a pick, especially especially with a fast strumming pattern, are so loud that you can’t get a condenser mic to not pick them up without sound isolation.)
You have a nice mic that does a good job of picking up the sound someone would hear live. So, I like a different solution than amplifying my voice. I don’t like to use picks for this very reason. If you just sit down on the couch and play for your husband, that’s what it sounds like with a pick. Not using a pick softens the guitar a lot. Finger picking softens the guitar even more. And with time, our ability to be more subtle in our string contact will allow us to brush the strings more lightly even with a pick.
I’m trying to work on that last one as I am finally determined to use a thumb pick. I still won’t use a flat pick cause I don’t want to learn hybrid picking since I’ve already gotten so far down the road of finger picking.
MG 😀