Round 3: BassSquared vs Gilad (429 views)

[Steve]

This is BassSquared v Gilad in Round Three of the Clip-Off. You have five days exactly to submit your clips, and until midnight EST Monday, December 12 to vote. December 13 is the Results Day.

Round Three is the One-Singer Wonder round, in which you must use the same singer for both categories. The categories for Round Three are:

1. Most Pleasant Tone: Affecting a satisfying tone in order to sound pleasing to the ears in one way or another.
2. Best High Belting: Utilizing one's chest and mixed voices to reach powerful high notes. Heady mix is acceptable too, but the chestier it sounds and the more 'ring' it has the better.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 4

[BassSquared]

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{Most Pleasant Tone: Ninet Tayeb}
1:10 to 2:52. Was gonna use the back half of this for Lyricless, but then again the front half's got some pretty nice singing as well. Never sure what to say about clips like this other than uh, yeah, her voice sounds very nice and smooth here.

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{Best High Belting: Ninet Tayeb (again)}
2:41 to 3:50. Some rather powerful belting, complete with key change, that reaches up to G5 in this take on the Gnarls Barkley tune. Also she's singing with a puppet, but uhhh... never mind that. Point is she kills it.

[Gilad]

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{Most Pleasant Tone - Conor Mason}
1:37 - 2:47, Conor takes on the Bonnie Raitt classic "I Can't Make You Love Me". Obviously he doesn't hold a candle to the queen of pleasant tone that Bonnie is, but I still think he sounds absolutely lovely here, with some pretty good dynamics and range showcased as well.

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{Best High Belting - Conor Mason (again)}
1:04 - 2:14, in this live performance of NBT's "Impossible", Conor shows off some great resilience and clarity in his belts here. Weighty upper 4th octave belts in the A4-Bb4 range during the chorus, followed by a verse almost entirely belted on A4, and a quick C5 thrown in. Flawless performance of the original.