Exploiting Vocal Break For Grit · Rock Singing Success

Exploiting Vocal Break For Grit

I used to think that this was the only way to get a truly heavy grit. I was led to believe that compression based grit could only get you so far and after that you had purposely make you voice break and exploit that break for very heavy grit when singing or for fry screams.

Maybe that's a great way to go about fry screams. I'm no expert....especially on fry screams.

Recently though, I've come to the conclusion that exploiting the vocal break for grit is too unreliable. Your voice is always going to break a little differently, so it's really an "accidental position."

By accidental position, I mean that you're going to have a very hard time of consistently recreating it in a consistent way. You never know exactly what you're going to get.

I've come to think that by playing with various acoustic positions (placements) and using grit that comes from various points on the spectrum between compressed and decompressed, you gain control and consistency.

What do you all think? Do you like using the vocal break for grit?

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