Geoff does a lot of this, with his 'clones' - check out his covers of 'Sixteen Tons', or 'The Headless Horseman'..! This was a 'reprise' of the four dwarves from his earlier cover of 'Over The Misty Mountains Cold' from the first Hobbit film, Rick Underwood (the amazing makeup/prosthetics artist) kept all the beards/moustaches and hairpieces, Kathy (Geoff's wife) kept all the costumes, though they did make a few changes/additions - for the filming it was just Geoff. Kathy and Rick in the studio. He does all the arranging, recording, editing and initial mix himself, then sends it to Ed Boyer for the final audio mix (Ed also mixes for Voiceplay. Home Free and many other acapella groups) before filming. He is also the bass for Voiceplay, who also release a ton of amazing content, from Disney medleys to Metallica, from country to rock - and everything in between. One of his VP bandmates, Eli (Ellie) Jacobson, programmed the lighting for this video the day before the shoot, as he couldn't be there on the day. Oh - and you really should listen to these with headphones to get the full effect!

It's all Geoff. It's an E1 subharmonic. Kathy, his wife, is the production manager for both Geoff's solos and VoicePlay's videos. Geoff has a 5-octave plus range: A0 growl, B0 subharmonic, F1 full chest (F#1 mostly does as lowest chest), head voice highest note Bb5 (Peaches mini Voiceplay (SuperMario movie)). Kathy Castellucci is the production manager for both Geoff's solos and VoicePlay. For this she brought back costumes and weapons from Geoff's (Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold). I laughed at your comment on the axe. It's the smaller of the 2 weapons that character carries. Love to hear your reaction/analysis of VoicePlay's newest video, Hellfire (Hunchback of Notre Dame) - absolutely mesmerizing.

This song brings tears to my eyes when I'm singing along with it. I really feel the emotion that Geoff brings forward. The emotion of seeing a dark place ahead, but not fearing it, to continue to move forward, with strength in numbers, and never alone.

You should totally watch and analyze his accapella group called "Voiceplay" and they just released their cover of "Hellfire"!

Geoff actually calls himself a "Baritone with range" . . . . which as someone who also considers himself a "baritone with range" I kinda hate him for 🤪. C2 is my lowest chest note (usually only in the am too) and I can reach an A4 pretty consistently in mixed voice . . . . but he's got well over an octave both directions on me which is both incredible and frustrating :P

@rhov-anion

7 ай бұрын

I love that Peter Barber, as a operatic bass, called him out in their interview and told Geoff, "No, you are a TRUE bass." Geoff was comparing himself to guys with basso profundo levels, but that's not being fair to himself. Not all basses are Elliott Robinson or Glenn Miller. He may not be a dramatic bass, but he'd be likely a lyrical bass in opera.

"i think it's like C2" killed me😂. it was a E1 subharmonic, whole song is like on B1. I'm a low bari and i can sing C2

@Badger77722

7 ай бұрын

Not her best moment. I'm guessing she doesn't have perfect pitch! 😆

@deniz2367

7 ай бұрын

​@@Badger77722Maybe she doesn't have perfect pitch . But shouldn't a "vocal coach" (?) have a piano or a similar instrument to use when analyzing?

@fantomaster2462

7 ай бұрын

i was a F1

@Badger77722

7 ай бұрын

@@deniz2367That would certainly seem like a good idea to me, but it's her video, she can do what she wants. And so can I, which is probably not watch a lot of her videos, since there are several "vocal coaches" on YT that I have a lot more confidence in.

@Stan_S_Stanman

7 ай бұрын

@@Badger77722 understandable tbh. It's not always easy to find pitches that are well into the 1st octave.

Geoff is my favorite singer😊 I like his crinkles😂

I can't get enough of the bass vocals, and epic fantasy lyrics.

Who are these four guys? 😂😂😂😂 Geoff. And the fire is deliberately a lighting fixture since he had to film in the exact same lighting four times. A real fire would have messed with the shadows. Costumes- if you've seen the movie, Kili, Fili, Balfour, Thorin. If you want something beautifully different from Geoff, listen to one of his narrations. His speaking voice is usually around 60hz. Geoff has done four interviews. First was with Bass Singing Central. Second was with the Charismatic Voice. Third, Peter Barber's, and latest was with Tara Simon. If you do manage to get an interview, I'd watch those first, and see what you could add that they haven't covered.

It's all Geoff, he harmonizes with himself, he does everything in his videos and I mean everything!

Sad you missed his outro was funny. He did the dwarfs once before in his cover of Far Over The Misty Mountain Cold. They had saved the costumes from the first video so when he did this one they only had to add a couple props. Peter Barber did a wonderful interview with Geoff.

The four guys are Geoff...layered. These characters were first introduced in Geoff's cover of Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold.

It is indeed all him. This is his preferred way of doing videos. so that he can sing all parts of his arrangements. He also creates the musical accompaniment. Yes he does sing close to the mic, as his voice is not strong enough on the lowest notes. He is not a basso profundo, and even has trouble admitting to being a bass at all! He claims to be a baritone with a bass range. Geoff's range is five octaves and he says his voice never "broke" as such, as some do, it was just a gradual progression. And yes, his tone is beautiful, throughout his range. Stereo helps and headphones make it even better. Geoff doesn't use autotune, which is why he sounds so natural. Because he is!

@Stan_S_Stanman

7 ай бұрын

I hope one day Geoff will stop denying that he's a bass. Baritones don't have effortless and clean A1's in chest voice at any time of the day, dammit! 😅😅

@christinestromberg4057

7 ай бұрын

@@Stan_S_Stanman After Peter Barber insisted that he is a bass, Geoff really ought to now accept it and stop being so modest. :)

For context: it's all Geoff. Geoff has a massive chest range (F1-B5), and can sub down to B0. Geoff is the bass of the acapella group Voiceplay, and arranges many of their covers alongside their percussionist, Layne Stein. So not only is he a phenomenal vocalist, Geoff is incredibly knowledgable in music theory as well. Geoff likes to call himself a natural Baritone with a low bass range, and it's become something of a running joke among Voiceplay/Geoff fans that the only thing Geoff CAN'T do is actually admit that he's a bass 🤣 Geoff also has a great sense of humour; when his solo career started taking off around the beginning of the pandemic, hundreds of reactors were watching his videos, and for some reason, many of them could not seem to pronounce his name correctly (pronounced like Jeff). Instead of taking offence and correcting everyone, Geoff ran with it and started naming his clones with different spellings of his name (Jeff, Jeoph, Goff, Geoph, etc) and fans jumped all over it. In short: Geoff is insane. Welcome to the Geoff Castellucci rabbit hole. May your time here be ear-shattering, knee-wobbling, euphoric bliss 😁

The low note you went back for in the beginning was a chest-fry F1.

@ondrejlukas326

7 ай бұрын

It sounds more like a sub to me. But I'm willing to accept it being chest-fry lol.

@vvoof2601

7 ай бұрын

I mean I don't have patreon so I didn't see if he mentioned the technique but I'm pretty sure it's a sub.

@johndeeregreen4592

7 ай бұрын

@@vvoof2601, no, not a sub. It was a chest connected note with a tinge of fry.

@johndeeregreen4592

7 ай бұрын

@@ondrejlukas326, it's a chest-fry thing Geoff has been doing lately. He uses it within a line. Subharmonics are very difficult to slide up or down once the pitch is locked in... but fried chest notes can be slid without a problem. If you notice, most of Geoff's subharmonics are done at the end of phrases.

Geoff can hit every note on the piano. I watched him with his coach and he is the onewho said that and how he does it.

Hey Freya . I hope you can pull this interview off. I actually thought I was a lower case than I am until I heard him. Would love to hear his training regimen, Have great day 😊.

@joeb4142

7 ай бұрын

He has some training videos on his personal KZread channel.

I was enjoying your video on Geoff when I thought I heard you say you just had twins. Congratulations! Mine are now grown but lots of amazing memories. ❤

His range that he has sung professionally is a B0-F5. The F5 he was still in a mix, a rock mix like Chris Cornell type rock mix.

@annoyingthing6238

7 ай бұрын

B0-Bb5

@timgray3790

7 ай бұрын

@@annoyingthing6238 even better, wow. Missed that Bb5. Cool. Dude is amazing.

@annoyingthing6238

7 ай бұрын

@@timgray3790 If you want to check it out, it’s in their Peaches Mini. He is amazing

@Stan_S_Stanman

7 ай бұрын

I'd roughly quote what Geoff said in his most recent published interview. "whatever range of mine you see online, substract an octave from it and you'll get my actual everyday singable range" So it's probably Ab1 to A5 that he can sing on any given day without straining much, without counting subharmonics. A solid 4 octaves, which is crazy.

@timgray3790

7 ай бұрын

I’ve seen him hit a G#1 with no strain. Below that I think he needs sleep before a concert. It’s insane that he can go down that low all day. That’s low, not Tim storm or glen miller low but it enables Geoff to make his notes soft where storm and miller has that hard edge whatever range they sing in. I’m a huge fan of miller and jd summer and love Geoff but he’s different with his range. Not saying better, just different

His vocal group Voiceplay do some amazing covers The Oogie Boogie Song that Geoff takes the lead on is worth your analysis.

Geoff has done interviews with at least three reactors; he is not averse to doing them. Good luck with getting him. Can't wait for more reactions!

The entire performance was a masterpiece. May I suggest another artist who embodies a song? David Draiman of Disturbed ‘s cover of Sound of Silence on Conan is mesmerizing.

@marshayoung9387

6 ай бұрын

I think Geoff's cover of Sounds Of Silence is far better. He puts so much heart & soul into it. Geoff has a way of reaching deep down into your soul.

So let's make it clear, since the key of the song is Bb minor, the lowest note there is a 4th bellow, so F1 subharmonic. The lowest chest note is Gb1. Please know the facts!

You should listen to his cover of the Beatles "Blackbird" and his vocals in Voice Play's "Oogie Boogie" song

Geoff has stated that he doesn’t sing very loud. He has to get up close to the mic when he records. I believe that’s very common to bass singers. While for years he has claimed to be a baritone, he does narrations and he is clearly a bass. Peter Barber who is a bass singer in the opera world and a reactor and analyst interviewed him and finally cleared that up😂. He is known on his solo channel for appearing with his clones. Early on he would record more than one layer and film himself but that was early when he was still learning. Now they’re full scale productions pretty much. In only two of his releases that I can think of he appeared by himself: in his rendition of High and Dry and in his cover of Sound of Silence, but we do hear the background vocals - they just don’t appear. he likes to arrange for four and five part harmonies and will film a clone of himself for every part. You might consider looking at his cover of God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen for the holiday season as it is a favorite. I’m not sure if you know that this entire production was him, his wife and a make up artist. Bandmate Eli , who is the tenor in the group VoicePlay, did the lighting programming ahead of time since he could not be there and showed Kathy what to do. Geoff does the arrangement, decides on the video concept, does the video edit, the initial sound edit until it is sent off to Ed Boyer who also mixes for all the large a cappella groups. The musical accompaniment is also by him. He uses a keyboard and plug-ins. If that isn’t enough, on his cover of Ghost Riders in the Sky he also did the cover art. A man of many talents. He also makes all the bread that they eat in their home.🤯

Yes they're all him

The clones have names. It is impersonal to just refer to them as clones😂😂their feelings get hurt😂😂😂😂😂their names are Jeoff, Jeff, Goff, and Darryl. Not all 4 are in every video. Darryl excels on the deep parts. Jeoph gets most of the solos. But Jeff will always be my favorite. He id the funny one. Watch the Way Down video. They have nametags. And in Folsom Prison there is a secret code to their prisoner numbers.

@AngieCurl

7 ай бұрын

Daryl is my favorite. He’s just so misunderstood. 😅❤

All four are Geoff

You had twins? Next time try for quadruplets -- you can see what they might accomplish in this video. Geoff is amazing. Glad you like him so much. For someone else with a great range, try Faouzia -- her stripped versions have just her voice and a piano, and are great. Suggest "Tears of Gold" (stripped version). I guess you haven't seen Geoff's previous Hobbit one (same characters) "Far over the misty mountains cold". It is also excellent.

It's all him

welcome to 4 geoffs

He can go quite high too.

Why do these react-videos never link the original video?

@Badger77722

7 ай бұрын

It's linked in the 2nd line of the description box.

@photoallergic

7 ай бұрын

@@Badger77722 This was either edited after my comment, or I'm an angry old fool. Anyway, cudos for referencing the original.

Have you seen Peter Hollens' version of this song. He's a master of layering and has a very beautiful voice.

You don't deserve to stop the video if you can't tell all four of the singers are Geoff....geez, and you're supposed to be an expert. Sure you are!

@juantimer

7 ай бұрын

And you don't deserve to comment on a video if you don't watch it. You made a fool of yourself.

@hwyla4416

7 ай бұрын

To be fair - she noticed once they were better lit. She was only confused while they were still in the shadows.

@marshayoung9387

6 ай бұрын

Oh and like you can do better ? Stop being so mean & nasty.