Carkins,

As a youngster, then into early hi-school had a nice Soprano
voice. I was soloist many times. Had some amount of training in
the choirs. traveling here there and about the area.
Then puberty hit, and things changed as we all know.
Then in military started smoking..dumb move.
Quit about 15 years later due to per-cancerous growths on my larynx,
had surgery. Yes I quit cold.

Bad hay fever thru the years, very little singing. About 8 years ago
got into the Yamaha keyboards. Never planned at all to gig, but with
encouragement from a couple of friends on another forum started this
at senior centers, with some degree of success.(Surprised me). Think
the "entertainer part of the gig came out first. Never knew what this
was until sitting in the spotlight, which goes against my nature.
Anyway instrumentals are great, but folks like vocals, so started with
couple, then added a few more.

Then as Trax mentioned above, and experience recording a true artist
learned that the voice is an instrument and it needs practice, hours and hours.
I went from crappy to "almost acceptable" and with FX in the keyboard "almost decent".
In this process learned of a word called "Formant" this is crucial to a singer.
My simple definition is its your voice, but the more complex is below.
After learning about this, and trying to use the Yamaha on board Harmonizer
learned a great deal more about the formant thing, so anyway think so.
Mind went back to choir days, also my daughter gave me a set of Voice lessons On DVDs.
The lessons were very helpful reminder and also new information.

After the wordy part above:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp...l=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=53103a27a694d4e3&biw=1207&bih=771

Wiki version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant

Learned mic control,levels, FX(electronic part) was crucial.
Mic usage, distance, your personal vocal levels crucial.

Then for live harmonizer in Yamaha, at least two crucial
things.
First eliminating feedback as much as possible, my Samson Q7's seemed to
work nicely.
And another important one was not to "force" your voice for standard songs.
Oldies, modern pop, country etc.

But back to Trax, I personally need several weeks of practice regularly to just
get back to acceptable voice.

No coffee or breakfast yet, so wordy.

Hope the formant part help you.

Seeker

FrankB

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