What am I doing wrong?

[vital hazel]

For a while I had a really healthy sounding voice and honestly probably due to overexertion I've kind of broken it and I don't exactly know how to recover or what I've doing wrong. I'm going to send some voice memos of my sing to show.. I just don't understand and it's been very frustrating because I do want to get better.

^^ this one is just singingy song and it was such much softer than the next one

this one. IDK like i dont know why it sounds like that. maybe its because it isnt the right style for my singing

but that was just me singing at the top of my lungs

this is kind of a before from about a year ago

^^ this is a comparison of how it sounds today

[little plover]

honestly it sounds really really similar, I've never "broken" my voice but I've had really bad colds that put me out of commission for a while. Honestly I just had to wait, and when I got back into singing didn't put too much volume or projection, very soft singing and that kind of thing.

If resting it isn't helping then I think there are vocal coaches that have a lot of experience in vocal repair, that might be worth looking into if it's something you're really scared of.

the recording quality is so different on each one so it's a bit difficult to pick out the exact differences, sorry.

my ear isn't that good

[vital hazel]

ah my bad ^

[vital hazel]

i see i see, thank you :) i'll have to get looking. and ur right it does kinda feel like im in an endless cold

[little plover]

yeah I've def had that, for me stepping away for like a week and a half did the trick. if that doesn't show any improvement, I might look for that kind of thing.

[vital hazel]

ill def go ahead and try this

ty again :D

[little plover]

np, keep asking around too, maybe other members have been through this and know some stuff

[turbid jasper]

wow, your tone is great