How Do I Deal With Perfectionism OCD When Recording Music?
So, I love recording music but perfectionism ocd makes it into a nightmare. For this new song I purposely made the lead vocal as imperfect as possible, I put in no effort to make my vocal sound beautiful, I ended sentences slightly too early, I make my voice pitchy at times, all in an attempt to detail the OCD and also just because I think the vocal style sounds kinda cool anyway
But the OCD is still giving me a really hard time about all the imperfections. How do I deal with this? I want to keep the imperfect take because I just kinda like the sound of it but how do I not get the OCD to obsess about every single little vocal imperfection
Posted Jul 9, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC
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