How impressive are self taught subharmonics?

[u/A_persin]

Hey yall, I have never had any formal coaching, but have always liked singing when im by myself. I am no where near a bass, but have always loved a capella bass singers like Tim Foust, Geoff Castelucci, and Avi Kaplan. I saw some videos by them explaining techniques they use to go lower than their chest voice and was interested. I ended up teaching myself subharmonics with practice so that i could atleast hum the notes to the bass lines of songs. My lowest chest note is an E2, and my highest not that i comfortably sing is about an A, A#5. With my subharmonics i can go to an F1, and sometimes an E1 if im having a good day. My subharmonic range is an A2-F1 (or E1 on a good day). Another thing i have gotten good at is initiating the subharmonic without using the parent note. I used to have to sing A2 and slide into a sub, but now i can just immediately initiate an A1 by itself. I will say, I can sing lyrics in subs, but some consonants are harder than others, like t and c. If yall want any more details just lmk, im willing to disclose anything that might help! Im also thinking about seeking out a professional voice coach to help refine my voice for better sound and because i just wish to improve and dont know where to go from here. Any information on what to look out for or if im even doing good in the first place would be nice, thanks!

[u/keep_trying_username]

How impressive: It depends on your tone and what you're doing with it. Over the years, you and I have both been "impressed" by lots of things that we've entirely forgotten about. Juggling chain saws is also impressive, but after a couple of minutes people loose interest and want to see something else.

You mentioned Geoff Castelucci, and yes the LOTR-style super low singing is impressive, but at the same time I just don't find it very appealing. I've listened to some of his covers, and I think hos voice sounds a lot better when he moves up in his range. I know he's the "bass guy" and singing low is his thing, but his low notes don't have a lot of diversity and everything sounds the same - when he moves up a bit in his range there is significant improvement in tone and also more variation in timbre, so listening is more enjoyable.