Andy Kuntz pissed me off with his pull-the-Mic-away-so-his-voice-drops-out-completely syndrome. Andy is one of my all-time favorite voices in music, but that pulling away shit infuriated me. I see so many singers doing that, and they just drop right out of the mix. All I hear are consonants and breaths.
I don't know if they do it because they don't want to blast the speakers out, or they're trying to hide missed notes, or cover up poor technique, or whatever the fuck excuse they can give. But if they wanna control the power of their voice by pulling back, they don't need to pull it a foot and a half away! Pull it six or maybe even eight inches when you need to back off.
Roberto Tiranti came through FLAWLESSLY. Every single DAMNED note. I didn't have to strain to hear him, because he didn't pull away the mic to arm's length like Andy did. And you cannot use the Sound-Guy excuse, cuz when he sang softly and up close, the mic's trim and level controls were just fine for Andy.
And I'm not singling out just Andy Kuntz. I could rattle off a dozen singers who are terrible at this, but that's another thread.
In my not-humble-at-all opinion, Roberto had the best vocal performance of any singer to ever perform at ProgPower USA. I heard everything he sang, and it was all invincible.