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Since no one else is commenting, I thought I'd put in my two cents. I REALLY wanted to wait for one of the expert guys to comment first, but none of them really have.

To be honest, I'm kind of iffy about calling your sound a mix right now. Your sound is really based on vocal fry, and Ben talked about some of his reservations about "frying" in that sense:

0pen Mic wrote:

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You can fry in this sense with little or no vocal fold closure [...] because it is produced by the false folds. This is actually a way in which people who have had laryngectomies are taught to communicate.

I personally don't use the groggy sound as there are better ways of achieving closure in my own voice by using exercises that HAVE to have efficient fold closure. However, the constriction of the pharynx to get the false folds to touch would probably bring the vocal folds closer together too and help people further if they are still struggling with closure. However, I my experience, people can get sloppy with this exercise because sound of the fry makes it much more difficult to hear the underlying phonation at the vocal folds. Therefore, it is difficult to tell if a student actually has efficiently closed folds or not. Another problem, which is a large one when working with a CD program, is that an inexperienced student may not know the feeling of complete closure and so are using the fry forever and yet achieving no closure in their voice as the true folds are not adequately closing below the false folds.

http://jessenemitz.yuku.com/topic/2151

The top does sound very good and released, but the middle stuff doesn't sound as usable. You have to move past that groggy sound to get to a truly released mix.

However, I should qualify this by saying that it is a valid start according to Jesse:

You can begin to achieve this by making a groggy, edgy, vocal fry at the bottom of your range. Slide that easily produced sound through the full range (what you would desire to sing in full voice) without raising the larynx. That edge, when cleaned up to a small tone and assuming perfect controlled breathing, is the beginning to learning the "efficient tone."

http://jessenemitz.com/vo...ml/voice_perfecttone.html

I just wouldn't say that it's close to a finished product that you'd actually use in a song yet. Have you tried or ever recorded yourself "singing in mix" without the groggy sound?

P.S. Editing the link to the converted file into the original post might help. Some people only read the first post and don't scroll down, so if they can't play the original file, they just don't comment.