How Is Sob Different From Cry? · Rock Singing Success

How Is Sob Different From Cry?

I was reading in a post about mixed voice where you wrote:

"I describe cry mode often here, or rather a top-down whimper and sob often resulting in more /ah/-ish overtones. Besides that top-down whimper that thins the vocal folds and amplifies head resonance, Sob is a sight dampening of the larynx you might feel as a slight/gentle pull in the front of the throat above the larynx when you make a whiny voice. (not dopey, but whiny). This gives you more surface area in the folds without over-flexing the TA "chest voice muscles" responsible for thickening the vocal folds."

I'm not quite sure what you mean by sob. I can lower my larynx, but I'm not familiar with "dampening" the larynx. Is it the same thing as lowering the larynx?

Maybe if you could make a short video where you demonstrate cry without sob and then add sob to it, I could get a better idea of sob is different from cry and what sob is supposed to sound like. Or, if it's possible to demonstrate sob just by itself, without cry, that would be helpful too.

I used to think sob and cry were two words for the same thing but now I'm realizing they're two separate things.

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