I was wondering if you might help me with my support. I'm over doing it I think. I'm told it's suppose to feel like blowing out a candle but it's more like trying to blow out the whole fire in my case. lol.
I'm red lining even though I have the mic as far away as my arms will reach.

Here is me singing outcry from Dream Theater as an example. I'm actually the guitar player for my band but we are having serious trouble finding a singer and I'm tired of making music without vocals. So I'm trying it myself.

http://www.box.com/s/uiei7ezt8612knszour4

I wish. John Petrucci is the man in my book.

I think I've solved my problem of too much and not enough support. I discovered this quite by accident. I was doing my scales and working on keeping my voice in the soft pallet while washing dishes. So after cleaning a big soup pot I held it out and sang into it. You can feel your voice vibrating when you do this.

On some notes my hands were vibrating to extremes while at other times the pot wasn't vibrating at all hardly. So now I'm working on getting a consistent vibration from the bottom of the top.

There is something very telling in being able to feel the vibrations that your voice is giving off. I'm finding that I am hitting far fewer flat notes and my voice is already getting more stable and free.

Now if only I can talk a roadie into holding a pot up in front of my face for two hours. hehe

Wow nice invention there. Looked up the acoustic monitor you're talking about. I went to order one but it says I would be pre ordering for the fall. Since I don't want to wait till fall is there anywhere I can buy one right now?

I got my VAM just recently. This past year. I emailed Byron(the guy that makes them) to ask him about it. And he had some that had defects or something. But they work fine. Go to his web site and send him an email to see if he has any of those left.

your tone is FAR BETTER than Labrie's. just need to keep working on your technique.

I think I figured out what my problem is. I'm using too much support, which is causing me to jump over the note and then I'm trying to come back down too quickly, causing me to hit far too many clunkers. I believe I remember Jaime talking about a former teacher of his telling him to land on the note. This seems to be pretty sound advice that will help me.

Part of my problem is that when the band first started we were going to be a death metal band. Now we've all decided to have clean vocals all the way through and I'm scrambling to keep up. lol.

Thanks for the advice, compliments and the great support. I'll email that guy to see if he has one of those monitors.

Meanwhile, I'll just keep putting in those four to six hour days and hope I'm ready by the time we start the vocals. We start drums in four days.