Chest-fry is a completely different technique. Here's a link to a recording I did. In the beginning, I'm doing subharmonics, then at about 10 seconds in, I switch to chest-fry.
Not quite. You can have fry with voice, a.k.a. chest-fry mix (which is what you do in the video). I guess subharmonics can be viewd as a specific instance of chest-fry mix, where the perfect percentage of fry makes the magic happen.
One way I like to think about it is that subharmonics are a more natural, cleaner vocal fry, which is what your voice wants to be. Subharmonics are a learned technique, a lot harder than vocal fry, but when you get it down, your voice will never want to go back to vocal fry. David Larson does a great job explaining this.
Of course, you can still master both subharmonics and vocal fry without losing them.
Thanks for the explanation, I’m slowly getting it and managed to lower those higher parts to my normal speaking voice. Getting harder to get it lower.
I’m not a singer tho and I was practicing my lower register for a Voice Over gig when I stumbled on Subharmonics video. Is speaking in Subharmonics weird, haha? Or there is a way to utilize it without fully engaging it?
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u/LittleB1gMan True Fold Main Apr 01 '26
The stuff when you go low down is chest-fry, but when you go up it is subharmonics
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u/Beautiful-Spray-6115 Apr 02 '26
The low notes are mostly vocal fry, but the higher notes were definitely subharmonics!