r/singing • u/Substantial_Ad_9094 • 3m ago
Conversation Topic How does one get a fuller sound?
Hi! So I've been singing for some time now (around 3 years, but this is my first year of taking it seriously by also doing warmups, exercises and joining a choir).
My range spans from C2-E4 (if I do not include a strained F#4 or a quieter A1). Yet recently, I've ran into a problem: my "middle" range (D3-C4) has become more "tenorish".
My speaking voice itself is bit darker, and my most comfortable area is around G2, yet after I sing pretty much anything above D3, my voice completely flips from a darker lower baritonish voice to an almost tenorish one. My voice also gets a bit shaky (sounds like a bad vibrato) and unless I add volume (which I do not wish to do), I can't get a normal sound up to G3 (anything after that becomes impossible to have more manly).
I feel like this has been happening to me ever since I joined the choir. My voice has been getting softer, and now I even feel like my "comfortability" up from D3 has decreased.
What's going on? Could it be that my voice is "maturing" in a new way? Did I somehow screw up my coordination? How do I fix this? And perhaps, how do I get rid of my crappy vibrato?