User blog comment:NoviStarsRule/Most-Least Favorite VOCALOIDs/@comment-53539-20150610081740/@comment-53539-20150611170409

As I said, the falsetto part of the voice is responsible for this, it is pulling the whole thing away from gumi's tones, particularly on the higher ranges. Mostly because its doing the one sound Gumi can't do.

that and while the same vocal type, its not the exact same tones even in the lower rages where she sounds the most Gumi-esque. This makes her stand out from Chika who almost sounds so alike to Gumi you sometimes need to listen twice to believe its not her at times.

This is why Kokone isn't suffering from the same set of problems Chikas does.

Poor Big Al is in such a awkward spot for fans... I like it when people say "we haven't had a power type English vocaloids" at times... As I said in the past, most of the time when the fans say "power" they mean "solid"... In which case Big Al is that. I know for a fact he drowns out softer vocals like Prima and Sonika... Because I own them... Hell, sometimes Tonio is drowned out too.

His counterpart Sweet Ann, once you get past her boxart is one of the best vocals in the V2 range, in my opinion. One song she can sound angelic and pure and the next a total vamp. Not every vocaloid can pull off that even at this stage. I wish people would give her more of a chance... Sure she is old tech but she is good old tech...

Then again I feel the same way about V1 these days.

Dam it feels nostalgic to talk about V1 and V2 these days.