08 November 2024

YouTube Comments are my Stanford University

There’s something incredibly wholesome about a farmer being very excited about singing in his grain bin. And it’s hilarious that so many people have been in one before.

can we all just give huge props the the wicked deep bass they got


This is one of the reasons the old cathedral churches were built the way they were...the acoustics

I was literally about the comment this! The bass’ are amazing. You can really hear them well at 3:00

Yeah the tenor's get the glory but the bass boys get the girls. Unless a tenor goes crazy high nobody reacts. Yet it's increasingly rare to hear people sing bass, so when you do the reactions are "OH I Love that bass!"

Bass killing it.

Finding enough basses and good quality ones is tough enough so major props indeed!

That’s called undertones 😊 I was a bass in my high school concert choir and we gave ourselves chills a few times!

Nothing it’s wicked about this entire performance. It is graceful and full of love.. people actually wanting to share their joy

Wow......all of this was amazing but did y’all hear that bass?!?!

Why yes, yes I did. The reverb in there really helped to push the bass to the surface. Beautuful

Just wanna acknowledge how challenging it is for a choir to enunciate in a setting like that and the fact that all of the words are articulated so clearly is a testament to their discipline, skill, and hard work as a group



This song is usually sung with each verse getting faster and faster. I was wondering what they would do with all that reverb! The choice was made to keep it slow, which, to me, was brilliant, really let the notes ring out and blend like they should. I loved it!
Starting at 2:40 the bass comes in. Wow. Fact, the base line is accentuated like I rarely hear. Avi Kaplan comes close to this but this is a choir! My hypothesis is that the high metal roof accentuates the longer wavelengths produced by the lower notes thus gives great acoustic power to a part we rarely hear with such verve. Basso Profundo!
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Was about to comment about the bass too! Sounds amazing!
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I think the crazy part is they're not even singing extremely low (D#2 I think was their lowest), they're just singing well enough that it seems deeper than it actually is.
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sounds like they were stood closer to the microphone
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As a bass I know the pain of singing 3 notes an entire song, but damn he does it well.
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Wait, so is it about the space or the person? If it is about the space, how can Avi Kaplan come close to it?
Those low E's omg
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I was watching this thinking to myself PTX needs to do this. But I think all the cows would gather around with tears in their eyes if Alison Krauss was in there singing.
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 @yaboi-km2qn  Nearest one of us singing the low bass part to the microphone was in the second row.
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 @ubemcgrebbiii1923  There were five of us on the low bass part in there!
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 @RinZ3993  Avi has natural lows that the vast majority of people can't hit, and he's good at making use of his natural resonance to get the most out of it; at the same time, on recordings, there's a bit done to boost his voice and equalize everything. Nothing wrong with it, it's a fairly common practice; guys like the eastern European oktavists who can sustain those crazy low notes Avi, Tim, Geoff, and others can hit and still be heard over an entire choir with everybody singing at full blast are rare, and generally they are absolutely huge people physically as well. Meanwhile, a good space helps out everyone, but especially the basses, because it gives some extra room for the notes we're putting out to be able to resonate and amplify; if this were just out in the field, we'd get lost while the other parts would still stand out pretty clearly.
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Has no one heard of EQ?
The sheer power of human voices to come together to create harmony rather than division and discord . . . awe inspiring
One does not even have to be religious to be moved to tears by this...THANK YOU
Absolutely beautiful and heavenly, I am really impressed, I would never have thought that the acoustics of that structure would lend itself to such clarity.
The sheer power of human voices to come together to create harmony rather than division and discord . . . awe inspiring
Takes singing in the shower to a whole new level!