World's lowest voice

I know we like to talk about high notes, but I thought this was cool.

Tim Storms boasts a vocal range of 10 octaves and his lowest note

is so deep it can only be heard by elephants.

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Any thoughts on how to train for this?..... :-)

...Wow! On Wikipedia it says that the lowest note he can hit is 8 octaves lower than the lowest G note on the piano.

Obviously, they haven't seen my piano.

But, I'm wondering too. How did he train his voice to do that? Not that I would want those notes...As cool as it is, having Mariah Carey notes or/and Tim Storms notes, they aren't exactly necessary.

You can't train for it. He is born, along with a few others, with abnormally long/thick vocal cords. (I heard)

I do suspect that he's using vocal fry though for most of the low notes. Some people have such robust vocal organs that their fry register sounds rather full and 'meaty', rather than just croaky/raspy.

Other examples of this could include Paul David Kennamer. He sings solo at 0:30 -ish in this video:

He ends it with a C0, meaning 16 Hz. That's below the human hearing, and probably your headphones can't produce the sound correctly, so it sounds a bit weird.

From Wikipedia:

"Guinness World Record

Storms's Guinness World Record for the lowest note produced by a human was certified in January 2002.[3] Storms also holds the Guinness World Record for the widest vocal range for a male. His records have been published in the Guinness World Records 2006. He broke both of these records in August 2008.[1] As of 2008, the new record for lowest note was .7973Hz (point 7973Hz), and the new record for Widest Vocal Range For Any Human was ten octaves.

Updated: 30 March 2012, Tim Storms reclaimed the record for the Lowest Note Produced by a Human. The new record is G-7, or .189Hz (point 189 Hertz). That is 8 octaves below the lowest G on the piano. Although the record of ten octaves for Widest Vocal Range has not been formally broken, based on Tim Storms' previous record of ten octaves, his new record for Lowest Note would put his range, unofficially, at twelve octaves. Guinness World Records dot com has not yet updated their website to reflect the newly certified record."

Every acapella group out there must want this guy. He can hit the lowest notes that no one else can.

I wonder if speakers can every playback sound in the 0-20Hz. If so, that what we hear in the video does not even capture the full frequency range in his bass tones.

I would not want him. Have you heard him sing? He's not particularly good at it.

Sure he can rumble silently, almost eating his mic up, but most of those 12 octaves are below 20 Hz, and thus musically useless.

That's freaky low....the human ear can roughly only hear from 20Hz-20k. Most speakers can't even reproduce frequencies below 20Hz...

Wait, if he was BORN with thick vocal chords, does that mean that he had an abnormally low voice as a baby?

Mom: "Ok Timmy. Say mommy."

Tim: "Mommy."

Mom: "DAFUQ?"

Kids of both genders have more or less the same cord structure. It's during puberty that the vocal organ takes its 'true' form.

That said, the youtuber Casey Moo (80dkeys), claims he could sing C2 when he was in fourth grade or something like that, which I believe would be before puberty.

Kids of both genders have more or less the same cord structure. It's during puberty that the vocal organ takes its 'true' form. That said, the youtuber Casey Moo (80dkeys), claims he could sing C2 when he was in fourth grade or something like that, which I believe would be before puberty.

Makes sense. But I think that means that either Tim Storms developed a disorder or he trained his voice to reach those low notes...I don't know. I have absolutely no idea

widest range = best singer, its science!

(just like fastest guitarist = best musician)

how many db did he produce at

I think having a wide range is like having a really long guitar. There are a lot of random notes at the end of the guitar you probably wouldn't ever use. There is also strain you get on your arm while reaching for those notes, so those notes at the end of your guitar...pretty much useless. You never use them in songs, only to impress people.

I also think the fastest singer is like being the fastest guitarist. This means your voice is limber, and you can switch between those notes easily, and really fast. The fastest guitarist has limber fingers, so he can switch between notes/chords easily...and really fast.

Yeah...I don't know. You are probably right. Wide range=fast guitarist.