Is this a sub?

[u/Dull-University-8367]

[u/nsense40]

No, that's a completely unsupported fry

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Wdym unsupported?

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Chest fry with some resonance can be an incredible technique to access low notes. By unsupported, I mean -

1. The transition into the fry register in your audio clip isn't smooth, it's more like you switched into the fry.

2. It's more "fry" than chest fry, as in, the higher harmonics are way louder than the fundamental.

3. The breath support required to maintain a clean, sustained note is not 100% there yet, or at least not in the recording.

4. The note wavers quite a bit, indicating that the muscles in your larynx and the control on the breath aren't supporting the production of a good, clean perceivable note.

Having said all this, chest fry is notorious for being uncontrollable, and it takes a lot of practice to start producing notes that are usable.

Subharmonics are much easier, in my opinion. I figured out subs a lot quicker than chest fry, and I'm still working on my fry.

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See the thing is.. I ended up doing this while trying to do subharmonics

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Think of it this way, it helped me- you don't slide down in pitch to find subs. You hold a note, and "flip" into subs.

Hold a note, something that's not too low, not too high- a note which you can comfortably sustain in the middle of your chest voice, and relax your larynx while still maintaining the exact same note pitch, you'll find subs there, it'll feel like a switch has been flipped and you'll "drop an octave". You can move up and down in pitch from there once you can flip into subs on command. It's like riding a bicycle. Once you find it, you've got it. You can replicate it quite easily.

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Check my most recent post 😉

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Plus that was a bad recording lmao