Round 2: BassSquared vs Baronessa (381 views)

[Steve]

This is BassSquared v Baronessa in Round One of the Clip-Off. You have five days exactly to submit your clips, and until midnight EST Thursday, December 1 to vote. December 2 is the Results Day.

The categories for Round One are:
1. Best Usage of Head Voice/Falsetto: Any clip that makes prominent use of the singer's falsetto or head voice (M2 for the vocal nerds out there). The clip doesn't need to be entirely in head voice, it just needs to use it predominantly.
2. Best Usage of Chest Voice: Any clip that makes prominent use of the singer's chest voice. Any reasonably connected-sounding singing, including belts and heavy mix, is elegible.

The teams are free to post their clips, voting commences as soon as they have.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 5

[BassSquared]

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{Best Head Voice: Georgia Train}
2:01 to 2:51. Honestly my entire team tends to prefer belting for their highs for the most part, but Georgia does alright with this little bit of operatic head voice, getting up to a respectable B5 with a lovely, crystalline tone and closing it off with some fun melismas.

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{Best Chest Voice: Will Wood}
3:12 to 5:06, instrumental from 4:06 to 4:24. The first half of this clip sees Will building up to the song's dramatic climax with lots of energy and character, not to mention some powerful full-chest A4s. The second half, meanwhile, goes to a much lower, softer place before slowly ratcheting it up to the finale. Tons of variety here.

[Baronessa]

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{Usage of Head Voice: Alison Moyet - "Rise"}

2:24 - 3:30. Alison, you guessed it, rises up to D6 in this falsetto-laden song outro.

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{Usage of Chest Voice: Lee Aaron - "Heartbeat of the World"}

:36 - 2:33. You know, I was looking for something tryhard for a good while, but instead I'm just going with one I really like. Lovely tone down to F3, with varying levels of compression up to D5.