Which Bass Singer has the best CHEST G1? 

Not Geoff's best example. Geoff in misty mountains or big bad john are his thickest chest G1s I think. But, Zlatopolsky and Glenn Miller are not of this earth

Forget the G1. I just wish i had a D2 as full as Thurl 3:24

Any of the unamplified G1s. I am a trained basso and cannot do that; my lowest, projected, unamplified note is an A1 (sometimes a G#1); even though I can reach D#1 (not counting subharmonics, which extend to D0) on-mic. Take someone like Zlatopolski, where his G1 is audible with a room-mic within a choir, that is just bonkers to me. To be picked up like that, his G1 had to have been better than 75-80dB at 1 metre from his mouth.

Geoff's needs to be when he sings "shadows lay" in Misty Mountains.

2:28 this clip is pitched up a semitone or two so to stop any confusion, yes the note in the original clip is a G1

JD. Sumner, Mikhail Zlatopolski and Glenn miller are the best even though I am a fan of a lot of these other guys those 3 do it with this natural almost spoken quality

Off mic notes: 0:09 John Sutko 0:43 Vladimir Pasyukov 1:18 Mikhail Zlatopolsky 1:40 John Ames 2:00 Alexander + Miller 2:21 Glenn Miller 3:39 Yuri Witchniakov 4:30 Alexis Lukianov 5:11 Sergey Kochetov 7:01 yes👍

Zlatopolsky's G1 resounds in my BONES.

Really tough tbh, I think Glenn and Eric have the ideal sounds. Not too dark or too bright, not too rough or too smooth, just in the middle.

Glenn, but don’t count out Geoff

Super nice video! And thanks for including Mark McCauley, London Parris.

Of the clips shown, Tim Riley's was the best at 5:27. Smooth, easy on the ears, plenty loud, no unwanted distortion or wavering. Just a rich, consistent pitch.

imo glenn and ames, followed by pasyukov, zlatopolsky, chandrowsky, and ort. so many good ones here! mark mccauley and tim riley always impress, stefan voicu is super underrated, and of course geoff is growing with every release

hard one to decide but i’m gonna have to for John Ames

There are such huge variations in sonic environments and miking that an objective comparison is almost impossible on the basis of these clips alone. One suspects that Zlatopolsky and Pasyukov had the most vocal power of these, but one would be hard-pressed to tell that here. I smile at the inclusion of both Ravenscroft and Chandrowsky. Not many remember them these days.

4:40 dude sounds like he is a alien

Okay it’s really fun singing along with these bass freaks, even though I’m nowhere near most of them. Good comp!

I'll admit I'm partial to Eric Alatorre because I met him once, made him laugh at a joke, and he nearly split my eardrums. I've never heard someone before or since fill a 5,000 seat auditorium with unmiked, seat-shaking bass notes like he did.

2:25 no contest, Glenn Miller all day!

The most complete one of these types of videos that I've seen. I just enjoy Thurl's voice, even if it's not the best.

I think Elliot Robinson, John Ames, and JD Sumner are my top 3

No Eric Holloway?

Geoff, Tim, JD, Glen, and Thurl.

A couple of these singers sound like theyre not hitting that G1 in chest voice, but the note is still impressive regardless. I would say that Glenn Miller and Zlatapolsky are easily the strongest. Many people seem to forget that singers like JD Sumner are singing directly into the microphone while the choral oktavists are projecting from a distance. I personal preference is Pasjukov. His notes are always so resonant. Many singers naturally sound "weird" in the contrabass register (I've heard it described as a frog-like croak), but Pasjukov's notes always sound like youd think someone with a super deep voice would.

These super slick modern recordings I don't give much for

Glenn Miller IMO. Sometime I would love to hear your analysis of Javier Castellanos Contreras' voice.

Everyone forgot about John Ames 🥲

half of them aren't chest tho... actually probably more most than half

Glenn Miller's clarity is on another level

Honestly i LOVE like how Changman Kim's is so gnarly especially going to his G1 right onto the nose it sounds so gnarly i love it!

Glenn has probably the cleanest and most powerfull G1 without mic

Si tous ces artistes sont fort dans les basses, il y en a un qui ressort car sa voix est belle, claire, agréable et Mélodieuse, c'est celle de Geoff. De plus qu'il chante bas ou haut, c'est toujours aussi beau et vibrant. Un don de la nature qui fait partie entière de lui.... C'est vraiment unique....

Geoff by a hair.....his volume on the low notes are incredible.

4:43 Definitely the glibbest.

Believe it or not, Ivan Rebroff is a baritone who sometimes sung in the bass range, but not always. IKR??? When I first heard it I was surprised, too. He has good technique making it so that he can all kinds of different notes. I am a baritone who has hit a G1 in chest before, but not very often. Listen to the notes in the middle of his range, and you'll hear a baritone passaggio.

Lot of chest fry mix .

Missing some other notable southern gospel quartet basses that had excellent lower range as well as the resonating tone like George Younce, Tim Duncan and Jeff Pearles who routinely hit G1s and lower. Same with Paul David Kennamer and Avi Kaplan (formerly of Pentatonix)

Some really fine low G's!

John Sutko, Matt Fouch, John Ames, Glenn Miller, Glib Chandrowsky, London Parris, Tim Riley (not best audio example), Gene McDonald, Ivan Rebroff are all more clear G1's than the rest of the audio clips!

either geoff, or JD Summer

Icl Matt Fouch’s G1 is orgasmic. Shoutout to Glib and Gene too

I get the feeling that John Ames is doing the trick of making sound with air from the outside in.

Glenn Miller - the GOAT of Bassi Profundi. His sound is theater-filling with chiaroscuro. A true human subwoofer. Many of these other singers are just frying on the mic.

tim's, santoni's and geoff's aren't the best examples of them singing G1s imo. Ain't going down live is tim's (rock solid for a live note), geoff's best is the one at the end of his "im dreaming of a white christmas" cover on his channel (most of his low notes are overly throaty but that one's both well supported and heavy-toned without sounding forced), and joe's is the one in all i want for christmas is you (not as climactic as the one in youre welcome but its about as long and is a bit smoother and less throaty). that's just my opinion though. regardless i think tim riley has my favorite G1 of the selection, with fouch being behind him. the choral ones are impressive for their projection but tone tends to suffer with that approach and its not my preference

Gene is underratedly clean af holy damn

Excellent work! Some I didn't know, or at least I didn't know their names. It seems to me that because of the power and cleanliness of his bass notes, Glenn Miller is still the king.

i gotta say pasyukov clip sounds absolutely mint but i feel like he's got at least one guy down there with him

Geoff easily

My lowest is c1 but these guys are just next level basses

London Parris for me.

Matt fouch has that nice radio voice G1.

At 4:10 , Mark McCauley sounded really well.

john ames

John Ames the best👌👌👌

J. D. Summer is the winner, I guess? He has very rich sound even at such low note. I have never heard of him, by the way.

Should include patrick page from hadestown ehere he hits a g1 on multiple occasions throughout the musical

Tim foust's one is chest ot chest-fry?

Don’t sleep on Matt Fouch, that G had some fucking soul

Why Isnt britton in these , the man held the world.record for 20 years but I never see his name on these

Rebroff has a stronger G1 in another version of that song ("On the way from S:t Petersburg to Novgorod"): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hWPfREvCBgA.html

In my opinion... pretty much every Russian Oktavist blew me away... but I think the best of them is Yuri because of how well he projects it.

For me Leonid Kharitinov

Matt!!!!!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

Take out all the guys using vocal fry which is most of them except the oktavist. Glenn Miller has a robust G1. The best quality with the richest resonance in my opinion is Vladimir Pasjukov. He possesses a very deep and clean instrument.

Geoff Castellucci or Glenn Miller

A voz de Pasjukov parece que despenca em um abismo

3:30 sounds that thickest

Pavel Myakotin

My biased opinion is Geoff, cause he’s the only one I know 😅

I think we should write Glenn Miller as G1enn Miller from now on.

Tim Storms anyone?? Bueller? Bueller?

Matt Fouch is using fry tone.... several others are too.

I am a huge fan of Thurl Ravenscroft just because his voice was so much a part of everything in my childhood

ok but who forgot Avi?

I don't think the Tim Foust segment showed him properly. It was too short of a clip.

That was a terrible example for Geoff lol

If you put on .25 speed on Tomi you cant actually hear anything

alexander and vladimir, natural sound in a church and not technically enhanced with microphones like most of them, hense the russians

where's PAUL DAVID KENNAMER

Amazing to me that two people with the name Ravenscroft are cultural icons. Name the other?

IDK, most just sound like a burp

Tim Riley is best G1 here.

My pet frog could beat that

Thought this was between some men that sing in BHS quartets!! Oh well, bye bye.

Всё же G1 это довольно низко, никто не впечатлил

Russian guys are the best bassists

J.D Sumner for the win! Glenn Miller is not even holding the note properly... He is FAR from the best... sorry!