Is it formants/overtones that I'm hearing?

[Sun]

I've been experiencing some, and now noticed in other singers the prescence of like a buzzing sounds kind of when a pitch is produced.

Is this formants peaks/overtones that I'm hearing?

Between 2:00 and 2:15 for example, on all these open notes there is this nasal ring or buzz constantly going on, I always thought of the voice as a single pitch instrument but now it sounds to me more like a complex of different sounds but you basically hear it as one sound. I'm not really read up on the physics of voice production/sound.

[Owen Korzec]

Maybe not formants...formants will always be present but he isn't really tuning to them super strongly here. He is sort of tuning to heady formants so it may sound a little funky if you're used to hearing belting, maybe that's what you hear? But what I'm hearing more of in terms of ring/buzz content is a raspy airy kind of distortion that's creating some "noise" in the upper frequencies.

On an unrelated note, what the hell did I just see at the end of that video o_O

[Sun]

Hm I hear it every time he sings open vowels, I guess it's normal. Probably just that I noticed it and now I can't stop noticing it in all singers.

It was just something that had been on my mind alot, I've been reading up on the anatomy of the voice and such to get a better understanding and this was just one thing I was wondering.

[Steven Fraser]

I've been experiencing some, and now noticed in other singers the presence of like a buzzing sounds kind of when a pitch is produced.

Is this formants peaks/overtones that I'm hearing?

Between 2:00 and 2:15 for example, on all these open notes there is this nasal ring or buzz constantly going on, I always thought of the voice as a single pitch instrument but now it sounds to me more like a complex of different sounds but you basically hear it as one sound. I'm not really read up on the physics of voice production/sound.

Sun: the buzz is twang, and he is singing 2:00 to 2:15 full voice in the head.

Yes, you hear it as one sound, but the tone complexity you are detecting is due to the presence of strongly amplified harmonics.

[eggplantbren]

The spectrum of a vocal sound is very complex, it is far from a single sine wave. If you really just sang sine waves you couldn't even make a vowel, because what we perceive as vowels is caused by overtones many times the fundamental frequency.

IMO the buzzy sound that you are describing is what is called "metal" in CVT. It's a bunch of overtones that make the sound more "piercing" and less "soft". They are produced by the way the vocal folds are oscillating (e.g. spending a lot of time completely closed per oscillation). The choice of vowel can amplify or suppress these quite a bit which is why full metallic (very powerful, loud) singing is more restricted in vowel choice than softer singing styles (neutral).

Btw I think the "up" at 2:13 is curbing with creaking, I don't think it has as much buzz as the other notes. If it were a clean tone it would only sound moderately buzzy/a bit smooth, but the creaking sound gives a bit more roughness on top. Kickass rattle at 2:17 also, very enjoyable :D

[ronws]

The spectrum of a vocal sound is very complex, it is far from a single sine wave. If you really just sang sine waves you couldn't even make a vowel, because what we perceive as vowels is caused by overtones many times the fundamental frequency.

And because the overtones that help make a vowel are many times the fundamental that is why at around D5, even for tenors, pretty much for most humans, the vowels all start to sound the same, because there is no room left to reinforce those overtones. Many guys call this "pure head voice" or head voice, when actually, they were already in head voice for quite some time, it's just now, they are missing the feeling of those overtones.

Releasing would be a matter of staying on a vowel sound, such as ah and use articulation to shape the words, if there are any lyrics that high. Such as some of Justin Hawkins' higher stuff.