I'm back from meeting my vocal chord surgeon, he's living up to his reputation, really nice guy, speaks good Finnish and all. I was examined, he took picture of my vocal chords which was annoying. I recorded a lot of voice demos which was amazing! These will then be used as a comparison point when doing the post op check after full recovery.
For normal relaxed speech, pitch averaged at 199hz, fluctuated between 137hz min to 268hz max, from C#3 to C4, fluctuation of 131Hz, quite nice for a "monotone" sounding Finn huh? My singing voice ranged from lowest A#2 at 119hz to highest D5 at 604hz range width being 485hz. I did not force the lows, neither did I push towards falsetto. If I would have done this after decent warm up and really pushed it, I could have went way further at both ends.
On a soft - normal - loud test, done at about 60db, 70db and 80db, pitch ranged 170hz, 236hz and 249hz. I could have done MUCH louder if I had been asked to, all tests done at "loud" voice felt like I'm barely warming up. Years of singing metal music and having naturally quite strong voice tends to do this. Likely could have went up to 100db without my voice breaking. Db meter was approx 30cm away from me, so quite close.
The plan is that I take few voice therapy sessions and then make a decision to get booked on the waiting list. I know 100% already that I'm going for it, but I'll play by the book. This should not take ages as its not the trans clinic doing it but the phoniatrics clinic who specially deal with all this voice stuff. The waiting list is less than six months right now so I might get it quite soon after I get the voice therapy sessions done. The technique is simple, only the upper ends are operated, recovery should be rather quick, I wont get trecheal shave as I have nothing visible there. My pitch can brighten for 50-100hz, it has minimal effect on resonance, but of course pitch and resonance tend to go hand in hand to an extent. It will be done under anesthesia, one day hospital stay, I'm not allowed to speak for two days and not speak much for two weeks and NO SHOUTING!
For normal relaxed speech, pitch averaged at 199hz, fluctuated between 137hz min to 268hz max, from C#3 to C4, fluctuation of 131Hz, quite nice for a "monotone" sounding Finn huh? My singing voice ranged from lowest A#2 at 119hz to highest D5 at 604hz range width being 485hz. I did not force the lows, neither did I push towards falsetto. If I would have done this after decent warm up and really pushed it, I could have went way further at both ends.
On a soft - normal - loud test, done at about 60db, 70db and 80db, pitch ranged 170hz, 236hz and 249hz. I could have done MUCH louder if I had been asked to, all tests done at "loud" voice felt like I'm barely warming up. Years of singing metal music and having naturally quite strong voice tends to do this. Likely could have went up to 100db without my voice breaking. Db meter was approx 30cm away from me, so quite close.
The plan is that I take few voice therapy sessions and then make a decision to get booked on the waiting list. I know 100% already that I'm going for it, but I'll play by the book. This should not take ages as its not the trans clinic doing it but the phoniatrics clinic who specially deal with all this voice stuff. The waiting list is less than six months right now so I might get it quite soon after I get the voice therapy sessions done. The technique is simple, only the upper ends are operated, recovery should be rather quick, I wont get trecheal shave as I have nothing visible there. My pitch can brighten for 50-100hz, it has minimal effect on resonance, but of course pitch and resonance tend to go hand in hand to an extent. It will be done under anesthesia, one day hospital stay, I'm not allowed to speak for two days and not speak much for two weeks and NO SHOUTING!