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The concept of chest/voices is pretty basic, but I feel more like I have 3 main sections to my range:
My "head voice" I pretty much have to make an "ah" sound, so it's not something I can easily use to sing. It's not forced like a falsetto, so are these 3 voices real or am I getting confused?
Technically I don't know if they're three separate "voices"; perhaps it's better to say they "feel" like three different things.
I think your ranges are a little off too. I'm a trained singer and my range currently is:
Chest: around C3 -> F5
"Mid": E5 -> G#5
Head: A5 and up to at least D6
Most men have a range that's basically similar, once the proper technique is learned.
My "mid" voice really is a Chest voice where I'm blowing slightly more air until I feel the vocal folds "blow open" slightly while phonating. In other words, it's a normal Chest voice blown a little harder.
This starts to fail (badly) at around B5, so I cut-out and enter Head at A5.. especially if I'm going up in the melody.
These terms (Chest, Head) are only what the singer is perceiving; specifically where the resonance is felt in the singer. Head voice "feels" like it's blasting out of the top of my head, but of course that isn't happening.
"Laryngeal tilt" is what's happening in the "Mid" and "Chest" voices. This video might clear up some things as well:
"Mixed Voice is Dead" by Robert Lunte:
That clip of Robert is not really demonstrating the mixed voice. What he does is "twang in the head" which basically is singing in a disconnected falsetto and making it "sound like" your real voice by using deeper vowels and lots of reverb.
To whoever mentioned blowing air as you ascend. You don't achieve mixed voice by blowing more air, in fact it's the opposite. As you sing higher you want to resist the air more to create breath compression. If your folds are strong enough, they will resist this air and give you more power. When you blow air and let the cords open up you are moving closer to falsetto.
Training yourself to blow more air as you sing higher only takes you away from your real voice, puts you closer to falsetto and risks damaging your voice as excessive breathiness is what causes hoarseness, lack of ping in the sound and lack of power.
I have written a big article on the registers, mixed voice etc you can check it out here: http://www.grow-the-voice.com/free-singing-tips/
A falsetto is not in any conceivable meaning defined by being "forced", and there is no useful singing voice where the perceived resonance (what some voice types are named after) would be in the throat.
Basically you are throwing around words in the hope that they mean something you can read up upon using the internet. But in the internet you have no guarantee of consistent terminology between two articles from people who know what they are talking about, and consequently no guarantee of consistent terminology in even a single article that is more likely than not a melange of distributed knowledge and half-knowledge from different places.
Even when you get a serious anatomically correct book about singing, there is no guarantee that it will converse in the same terms as any given vocal teacher or student.
Don't rely on hearsay for your vocal health. It's like learning watch repair on your own: more likely than not you'll already damage a watch when trying to open it. Even the worst repairmen have enough of a clue to avoid most inadvertant damage from forcing things where it does not help at all.
A voice tends to be comparatively robust and not easily damaged unless you convince yourself that stuff that neither works nor sounds nor feels great is as it should be and just piling on more of the same will make it work. And angling for half-knowledge is half the road there.
Watches are possibly less forgiving when you try forcing something you shouldn't. But watches can be replaced, chalked off as probably unnecessary learning cost. Your voice not.
So if you are finding yourself collecting a hotchpotch of advice fragments from the internet, you may even be better off trusting your own feeling instead. But it will be more useful to get an actual teacher to listen to you.
