Gerolsteiner !!!
Gerolsteiner is good, it will literally BLOW the flim off your vocal chords !!! ROFL.
Try this, get a fresh lime, not a lemon, a lemon is too acidic.
Squeeze just 3 to 5 drops of lime juice in an 8oz glass of gerolsteiner mineral wasser.
The acid in the lime will boil some of the carbonation out, the basic or alkaline chemical quality of the mineral water will also be balanced by the acid in the lime.
Tastes good to.
I'm looking foward to hearing your harmony vocals.
If you really, really, really want an interesting and totally clean vocal sound, try this.
Get a fresh jalapeno, if you are not used to eating vegetable peppers, get the giant variety of green jalapenos as they are much less hot, I use habaneros for this trick.
Now what I'm about to describe can only be used briefly, because the high powered capsicum acid in the pepper will eventually 'sieze up' the vocal chords and shock them.
But for the purposes of session check this out.
With a very sharp knife, working from the tip of the jalapeno, slice very, very thin circle slices, as thin as you can, about 5-10, leave these stacked on each other, put them on a saucer. Cover the saucer with plastic wrap.
Start your session, use the water method, gently, always very gently. Remember, we are working our vocal chords no matter what other methods we do, and each session affords a limited amount of 'lifespan' , the vocal chords do of course get tired, they become ineffective.
Some might argue with me, they think and rightly so, that blown chords can sometimes sound good. Well here's the jalapeno method.
Take that jalapeneo slice, just one, and put it on the BACK of your tongue, not the tip, not the middle, the back. Be careful.
Let the jalapeno sit there. Yes, it's crazy ...
You will very quickly start to produce a lot of saliva, but it's going to be different because of the placement of the jalapeno slice.
When a LOT of saliva has formed in your mouth, a good pool of it, that is some powerful saliva, because it has a new chemical in it, the capsicum acid from the jalapeno, it's high octance gargle, the best you can get.
Gently tilt the head back and BEFORE that runs into the back of your throat, start the little gargle grunts, little tiny grunting sounds in your lower register.
You are literally BLASTING and BURNING the flim off.
This should only be done near the end of a session, after the chords are warmed up and thoroughly moistened. It makes them ragged very quickly, and some interesting effects can be gotten with the ragged voice, but you can also lose your voice for a day or two if you overdo this. CAUTION.
The water method is gentle and nurturing.
The jalapeno method ... is insane.
What you CAN get from the jalapeno method is an intensely sweet, clean, vocal, very focused and ... sweet.
It depends on what type of vocal you are ... as to what you will turn into when you 'pepper' your vocal chords.
The most important thing to remember is not to have any equiptment or a mic in front of you when you do this.
When you tilt your head back to gargle the first couple of times, until you get used to the jalapeno method, your throat will sieze and you will naturally want to expel this shit from your throat as quickly as possible, and you will spit this crap all over everything.
Be careful, be gentle, observe ... how does it make you 'feel'.
Breath naturally, and normally. Yes, the capsicum acid DOES travel in the moist air in your sinuses and nasal passages, so you can literally treat the entire vocal apparatus with the jalapeno method using the gentle slow breathing of the water method and the gentle flexing of the vocal and sinus passages.
Remember, start to clear the throat and gargle BEFORE that heat hits the back of your throat, and then gently work that stuff back there.
Eventually you will be able to 'sing-gargle' with this pool of heat playing around the chords and boiling them 'pure'. Eventually, you can use the glissando method to learn where the most pure point in the break between your chestvoice and headvoice, really, really is .... funky huh ?
sing-gargling with the glisando method will literally strip the vocal chords of all impurities and flim at EVERY FREQUENCY level.
If you regularly use the jalapeno method, you will develop tolerance to the jalapeno capsicum acid and can even move up to serrano's and habenero's. You can literally at some point, just think about the jalapeno method and you will start to generate the saliva you need.
DO NOT smoke while using the jalapeno method, there are all sorts of bad things that can happen. Wait until you are finished with the session.
This method has been used to treat vocal nodes, and it is very, very effective, but the technique is much different and I'm reasearching that.