Unless he's secretly op.

He's wearing a papakha, a hat men of the Caucasus wear as they're going to war

Naw he the dude from cowboy bebop.

I was thinking the same the whole time!! Cool hair!

Well... In fact my beatboxer name came from a character of a story that i stop writing since 2014 named Xureck. And if I managed to achieve this dream, I would love to see that character on anime. Will have my hair of course xD

For some reason I "heard" that in Sara Bareilles' voice from The Sing Off. 😂😂😍

@@DracosRose, oh yeahhhh. you've reminded me how spectacular of a judge she was There are two reasons why that was the best year of The Sing Off!

for us beatboxer , those beatbox in the vid is a starter skill hahaha

LMAO, that's exactly what I was thinking. "Just an example?!?" Maybe it doesn't feel hard to him anymore, since he's probably trained for so long to do it, it's no longer a feat. But that "example" was insanely good - especially since he has a considerable bass he included in that. "Just an example." LMFAO I almost spit up my drink when he said that LOL

Yes! It gave me chills! But that’s just an example. 😆👏

I agree. Lol. My cellphone shook

Holy shit yeah that was so good! I know I'm late but I just discovered his reactions - beatboxing is so cool

That isn't even his final form.

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@Thaddeus Bradley instablaster ;)

I was going to post the same thing. It is something new for us to experience.

Ditto. I have been waiting for someone like Reck to come along that can analyze and truly appreciate Kevin's skill set.

I agree. Many people can't chat about kevin because we don't know how he does it, thanks for sharing your expertise.

Exactly what I thought!!! Amazing!

Made me miss Avi again. He was such a phenomenal bass!!!

The Grammy was for the music not the video 🤓🤓

@@windlesstar103One thing I think we should always remember is that an arranger’s music is only as good as the group that is performing it. If the group cannot make the arrangement come to life then the arrangement is wasted. Therefore, even though the Grammy was for the arrangement the whole group gets credit because that arrangement won because of Pentatonix’s delivery so it is a team effort and they were all worthy of the Grammy ❤

He does the 'Pandora's box' on a unique level.

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I don't know all the technicalities but when Avi was making that noise it had the rumble like a vocal fry. And I'll be made a lot of technical sounds and electronic sounds and like I said I don't have a clue about the name is there anything but it did have that fry sound? But that wasn't technically a vocal fry that Avi was making? I love all the sound effects he could do!

It was a chest fry actually. It does sound like it is just a natural low note but it goes down to C2 with a frying effect on that low.

@@mecfstraveler it was a "Growl" note. It isn't exactly the same as vocal fry. Imagine it as a vocal fry with voice added to it and intonation. Basically the rumble you get when coughing and use just that rumble to lower the note

It’s using fry or growl to achieve an effect. It’s not like subharmonics when it it moves things down below your technical range, but it produces a sound he was trying to achieve.

The 3rd one was subharmonic bass or somethin. It was an octave lower than what he was singing

Kevin eats drumsets for breakfast...without any milk.

@@ExotiicButter welcome to the salty spittoon how tough are ya?

By Scott, you mean Kevin then yes

@@amarama7654 no I'm sure they meant Scott, cause Kevin doesn't do much bass, Scott sometimes does bass when Matt sings lead and Scott can beatbox

It was Avi

@@amarama7654 Scott used to do the beatbox I think when the group wasn't completely formed (when it was just him, Kirstin and Mitch), he does it for fun I think also on some of his videos, but he does the bass when Avi (or Matt now) sings

I think Kevin taught them all at least the basics of Beatboxing, but I'm not sure if they've ever swapped parts in actual performances, the way they do semi often with the Bass part (where Scott takes it over for Matt). A better example is Citizen Queen, where their Beatboxer taught one of the other girls to totally take over, because she wanted a few singing parts where there was still a beat.

I agree completely

BearENForcer just came to mention that song. Also their new cover of cologne which is audio only is also super impressive of all the different sounds Kevin can make.

yay someone else noticed. I wonder if in the beatboxing world the proper term for this is actually "fry"? I'm not sure but yeah in the singing world, fry is slightly different, and what Reck is doing we would call "subharmonics"

The tecnique known as "subharmonic register" or "subharmonic singing" is actually made with M0 mechanism, so with vocal fry. In pulse register, the vocal folds are close but loose, and this lets the air popping through them. But there's another difference with modal voice, that is the vibration cycle: in M1 mechanism, the chords vibrate with a periodic cycle, while in vocal fry they touch each other twice and then they take a short recess; so, they vibrate with an aperiodic cycle. When this aperiodic behaviour become constantly accurate, the chords will produce two notes at the same time: a fundamental and a subharmonic (one octave lower than the first note). This two notes are compatible, and so their overtones add togheter, creating a fundamental with a very clear sound. A recent study has shown than in subharmonic singing the folds don't actually vibrate at different frequencies but with this constantly accurate aperiodic cycle. So, subharmonic singing is just a very accurate vocal fry. For this reason, I prefer calling it "strohbass", also to differentiate it from kargyraa, that is a subharmonic singing tecnique too where the vocal folds vibrate togheter with the false chords. So, I just wanted to tell you that Reck was right when he called it vocal fry.

@@gianlucaranucci_ All true, but Avi did not use vocal fry in this video. That is how low his natural voice is without vocal fry. He is a basso profundo.

@@michaeltaylor5939 Yes, I know.

You're right! Kevin deserves much more recognition

This is amazing! And you're right! Kevin deserves more recognition 😊

Or.. wait for them to drop the official video of cologne? It's on their recent EP and they're dropping a new official video every Wednesday for each track and there are only six tracks with cologne being, I believe, number 5?

@@mecfstraveler they're not making Cologne music video sadly

You're so right the song is massively 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

@@raisachaerani7273 😳😳😳 why??? I was waiting for that one!!

@@kaygirly19 i don't know but cologne deserves music video 😔

This is so warm to read! Thank you so much! I try to explain what's going on the best that I can, so this puts a very big smile on my face :D

yeah, he has some insane lower registry range. Avi doesn't really use vocal fry or growl, he mainly uses chest. He might have gone to chest-fry at some point, but the tone is clearly coming from a chest. It's just so low that the frequencies might clash with the subtle amplification they do in studio.

The Real Sourc3 the amplification isn’t subtle. There’s a couple recordings of this off-mic and Avi is barely audible on his low b’s, which is fine. But remember he’s a normal low bass, so realistically he should only be able to pump out loud E’s or F’s.

Yeah it's not a vocal fry note. It's a chest voice B1. With a little bit of fry sound to it. But the fry sound is quiet and almost not noticeable, I'm actually surprised Reck even picked up on it. Anyway, for anyone confused, having a little bit of fry sound doesn't mean you're singing a fry note. Otherwise, um, notes like these would also be fry notes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f5ddjM9mldSniGg.htmlm36s. Notice how you can hear some crackling on many of her sustained high notes? That's fry. Yet she's not singing a "fry note." It's possible to be singing a chest note and just have a fry effect/distortion in your voice. So, yes, it's indeed a *chest voice* B1 from Avi. Also, for the record, when Reck does his B1 (while impersonating Avi), he does what most singers would actually *not* call a "fry"; rather most (knowledgable) singers would call what Reck does a _subharmonic note._ Even when Reck is demonstrating fry in the beginning of the video after hearing Scott do it, Reck is actually doing a _subharmonic note._ It sounds different from what singers would normally call a _fry._ It's the same thing bass singer Geoff Castellucci does to sing many of his super low notes in his _a cappella_ group VoicePlay. For those who aren't familiar here are some other examples of subharmonic singing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7Fkf9CZsq65aKM.htmlm31s, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrF8lLx4rbDTeoE.htmlm27s, and here David Kahn starts by doing a vocal fry note but then transitions into doing a subharmonic note: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJNkmLx7q7GcZ40.htmlm55s. (I get that what Reck is doing may be called a "fry" in the beatboxing world, I'm just saying in the singing world that's not the term that's generally used for it among knowledgable singers.) Hope this comment was helpful and informative to someone.

@@charliecampbell6851, yeah his chest voice disconnects starting on his C#2s and hence all of his chest notes there and lower are not truly projectable.

I think it was a subharmonic note. Look up David Larson on YT and you will see. Geoff castalucci from voiceplay does it all the time.

Aww thank you Tiffany!

Aw thank you Alison!