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Ain't hearing no whistle this side. Could it be the phones? I posted a clip once that sounded like I was busking! There was this sound like a coin dropping every time I sang an "i" sound, as in river. It happened on unprocessed, dry vocals, but I could reduce the effect by swapping mics.

rfpd Personally, I think that experimentation is all part of the game. Experiment, copy your favourite singers, whatever, and get feedback... also, it is ok to challenge the feedback. None of us has all the answers. We only have opinions. My own opinion is that "copying" your favourite...

I mean, while you sing. The air is only supposed to escape in a trickle. You want the air to vibrate, not move en bloc. The more intense or higher the note, the slower the trickle. (Higher, more intense notes can be sustained for longer without running out of breath.) (It's because intensity is...

Much the same. I used online vids, too. One really important thing I learned was that the louder and more intense you have to sing, the less air you should push through your vocal cords. That is not the most intuitive thing, but it does actually make sense. Quite a natural thing to do is to...

* That's quite challenging what you are aiming at, there, as well as the distraction of playing guitar at the same time. I wonder if it would be easier to break it down and practice smaller pieces before putting things together. What's your approach with general vocal technique? Online vids...

(I'm not too keen on downloading files, even mp3s) Can you put it on Soundcloud, like your other clips? I'd like to take a listen and follow the thread. Hope people comment. (I can't comment on grunge, myself.)

It's a dynamic mic. I'm a novice when it comes to mics, but I think that means it can't be a condenser, right? I've kind of forgotten what I read up about it, but I think it has a "cardioid polar" pickup pattern blah blah blah or something. I don't know if that is relevant to room sound? I...

...and don't tell me to shove the mic at third base...

I don't naturally have the kind of voice for this genre, but I mess around anyway. Now, I've noticed that if I place the mic 12 inches (yes, a whole foot) out to my left, and almost level with my chin, there's an improvement in tone. Kind of unorthodox, but whatdyathink? Is it beginning to...

In my "Great Vocal Exercise!" thread a while back, I said how I'd been practising singing over my own vocals with different tones or vocal configurations. Basically, you sing in one tone, record, and sing on top in a different tone. Helps control consistency of tone. Well, I've got an...

I guess it'll start to sound good after you've practised it enough that you don't have to think about it so much? Right now, it sounds too deliberate to me, and all focused on the one thing. For the sound to be rich, I think you need to combine both, and get the more heady tones of the...

Decent effort. In many places, the song requires you to slide smoothly from note to note. Although your pitch sense seems to be good, I don't think your slides or inflections are controlled enough. At that level, it is a bit messy, particularly as it is further complicated by the touch of...

He is going in and out of falsetto, throughout the song. It gives the song a good dynamic, imo, but it is not an easy thing to get right, especially against the constant solid tone of the guitar, which doesn't seem to be following the same to-and-fro dynamic of lightening and consolidating. What...

Sounds fine to me. Mixed voice, I think + processing.

Sounds pitchy to me. The guitar is overpowering the notes you are singing in falsetto and this is maybe giving the impression of pitchiness. That, or you are actually "reaching" when you get to the higher notes. Either way, I think that the guitar is too strong relative to your vocals (on those...

Phew! The thought police nearly had you, there! But you are free to go!

I found this, for anybody who thinks that the deliberate autotune sound is old hat. I know its not the OP's genre, but that god awful sound is still doing the rounds, and could end up anywhere. That's why I get the "you don't know what you are talking about treatment, when I mention how crap...

He! he! No. I deliberately went to look for an extreme example. And you don't have the right accent, lol. (Even I don't, quite have it.) I was debating with some folk who had influence in the genre to please, please do something about the scourge that is blighting a region that was once so...

Nah. That's just Eurocentric. Yes, some sounds are not relevant to particular genres, today, but the world of music is big, and there is no "should". A lot of African music catches on in Germany, Japan, China (increasingly), etc. Nobody rules the roost.

The nonsense is taking over in West Africa. Not dated at all, there, for example. 9ja pop (Nigerian pop), for example, which is very popular from West Africa through to Zimbabwe. The problem there now is finding MODERN music that does NOT have that ghastly sound. Yes, the sound has been...