Singer Sets World Record for Lowest Vocal Note

He's got my vote for lowest note ever burped!

I don't care much for the song lyrics. Perhaps if it were autotuned?

Is that the guy who drove the bus in the Justice documentary?

I'm sure children everywhere have enjoyed the annoyance of "croaky voicing" . You just sort of rattle your vocal chords around in a parent annoying fashion, you all did this right?

On a more serious note, as a long-time electronic musician/producer the mics and technology here are pretty weird. I assume the mic is an SM58, a pretty standard vocal mic for singers. Its sensitivity drops off massively below about 150hz at 40hz it is ten times less sensitive. At 0.3 hz ... it frankly doesn't go there.

To do that you would need a very large diaphragm microphone, in fact, when recording the fundamental frequency of bass drums audio engineers often use loudspeakers wired up (in reverse) as a microphone, because the low frequency is of such a long wavelength that a very large surface is required to capture it.

Its a whole different matter to 'croaky voice' a click twice a second and have a chest which acts as a resonant body for that. I have to say : that's not really a fundamental sine wave of 0.3 hz, it is an impulse every 0.3 seconds.

Different thing

Sorry, I know only geeks will read that. But it bugged me.

I agree with angstrom.

And can't humans only detect frequencies as low as 20Hz? If it were a fundamental frequency, my guess is at frequencies that low we wouldn't even be able to hear it, however if like angstrom said, it were merely an impulse at such intervals, we might still be able to detect it, as we could in the video.

he can sing 'What a wonderful world'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pT7OZE66Q0

isn't it 0.393 kHz? = 39.3 Hz

Actually 0.393 kHz would be 393 Hz, but it says Hz, not kHz.

I think only long-time smokers are capable of such bass notes.

If you want to hear a man who really sings in extremely low registers, you mightlike to listen to Albert Kuvezhyn, singing Joy Division's "Love Will Tear us Apart".

I posted it on my blog long ago. http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2007/02/love-will-tear-us-apart-again-by-yat.html

Someone said it in the comments and I agree, this guy could pick up some quick work in a death metal band!

His voice may be oscillating at less than 1Hz, but I really don't think you can hear that low to less than 1Hz.

From wikipedia: "Specifically in humans, we have a maximum aural range of 12 Hz under ideal laboratory conditions to 20,000 Hz in some individuals..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hearing_range#Humans

Going below 10-12Hz puts you in the INFRASONIC range, where sound is felt, not heard.

You can't hear below 12Hz. What you hear in the video are probably harmonic overtones that lie within the human hearing range. I guess for the world record, they're only interested in the fundamental frequency.

Big deal, I´m singing at 0 Hz right now....

Disgusting, those recording artists and their bass desires!

The great Thurl Ravenscroft singing Asleep in the Deep...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etdMM6VsBos

This is ridiculous. First of all I've never heard of frequencies

This is ridiculous. First of all I've never heard of frequencies being expressed in .whatever as far as sound goes. If it was 393hz okay. There is no way the human voice can produce 39hz. In fact at 20hz you're not actually hearing it but feeling it. The human range of hearing is more like 16 - 18khz to 30hz or so. The older you get the less you hear of the upper range. I could go on and on about how stupid this is but alas I digress. Also to the person that said audio engineers reverse speakers to capture bass drums. While you could do that it would be completely retarded as it wouldn't make a very good quality mic and there are plenty of fantastic mice that can capture low frequencies. Secondly a bass drum really doesn't produce ultra low frequencies. The bass player fills in the lower end.

Lol. "Mice" should be mics. Ah auto correct.

Deidrie Barlow would give him a run for his money.