sday88
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Hello DCP, I love all the heated debates on here. It is so nice to see discusssions going on here rather than facebook or some other social networking outlet. However, I felt the need to at least take a few moments to address some consistent concerns amongst the DCP community at large. I have some experience in the area of electronics/sound reinforcement as well as brass arranging and sound design. I would hope you would all at least take this into consideration before flaming me into the pits of hell :)
I'll try to touch on a few key points here, sorry if the thought process is a bit disjunct
1. "Thunderous Goo"
A. If you are not right behind the judges at every venue in their exact spot, please don't complain about the mix. EVERY corps is mixing for the judges and if you are in the lower level just know that you will be getting an absurd amount of speaker sound. This is even more true in venues where the lower level creates a BASS TRAP that does not allow the desired electronic low frequencies to cut to the box. This is an acoustic phenomenon that is unique to each venue. Any corps at any time may be required to boost their subs to kick some more juice up to the top if the venue's lower level creates a BASS TRAP that cuts the amount of low frequencies traveling to the judge's box. Google BASS TRAP
I stopped reading here, and I'm not about to read the rest of the 21 pages. This is the problem. "... mixing for the judges..."?
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Here's a picture of Bluecoats tenors:
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I'm surprised no one has commented. I was in the next year's DCM All Stars at the Orange Bowl Parade and I'd love to see anything from that trip again. Why don't you go ahead and post the pictures. If I see any Bluecoats I'll post them on Facebook for them to see, if you don't mind.
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Please tell me they've addressed this:
Ludwigs were junk when I marched. We hated them. And they were freakin' heavy.
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I have 2 old sets of Ludwig quads I'm restoring, one of which is from the 1983 Freelancers. They are currently in pieces, and all I have is the drums themselves, no harness hardware. I'm looking for an aluminum rack/harness combo that I can bolt the drums to. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I still have my Ludwig quads from 1987. Do you need any pictures of how they were all connected?
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Kind of interesting. A friend of mine marched in the Ohio Brass Factory around the same time and they used a similar tenor set-up.
Glassmen also used this setup somewhere around 1989/1990.
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in the drumline we always had to audition for whatever spot/section we were trying for. I'm assuming the brass auditions weren't needed until we were having more than 70-80 people trying out for the hornline.
Until then we just kept whoever kept showing up.
The only time I "auditioned" was in '88, and all that was, was going into a room with Jay and playing through a few of the warm-ups. In '86 and '87 I assumed that they just evaluated everyone during the winter camps and when the time came to make a decision, they told the people who didn't make it that they didn't make it, and those of us who did make it, they told us that. Even in '87 when I fighting for my life with Matt and Chandler, I never had to do an audition.
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I know what you mean about the sticks-when I started back in the late 'timp-tom' era, sticks on toms somehow seem wrong.
Funny you should mention Lexans, when I was marching (80s) they were newer tech and I loved them. I picked up a pair of the radials lately-not nearly as good, but still fun. I gotta get a pair of lexans so thanks for the link!
I have an older pair of hard felt mallets for when I want to keep the 'noise' down and they still feel kinda good.
I also like to hack about with Tom Aungst tenor hybrids-not sure what they'd do for serious playing, but they are fun.
We used both the Lexans and Radials in '86 with the Bluecoats and I hated the Radials. You couldn't get any sound out of the drums with them. The Lexans were real nice.
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Same comment as in the Marketplace:
Please tell me they brought back the Marathon heads.
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Please tell me they brought back the Marathon heads too.
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Or the BD coke snort vizh in the 86 tenor line (other corps have done that, of course....SoCal Dream's tenors did it in 06)
Okay, that one was was pretty obvious.
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I'm guessing no one has 82 bluecoats on mp3 anywhere....please message me with any information please! I've been looking for over a year!
There's three of us in this thread that have it and have offered it to you.
I said I had it but didn't know how to get it to you.
Phil offered to burn a CD and mail it to you.
And Doug asked for your email address so he could email it to you.
I don't really intend to be mean, but maybe read the thread and see that you have three offers and take someone up on them rather than coming back on here and keep asking the same question that has already been answered to you.
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Does anyone know if the corps did a standstill recording of the show this season?
There are videos recordings out there of the standstill after the Massillon show that were taken by someone in the stands. Is that good enough for you?
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In addition to likewise hating people who use "their" incorrectly....I really hate it when peeple spell incorrectly.
How about when someone spells "people" wrong?
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Through a pillar... darkly.
I seriously laughed out loud and can't stop even as I'm typing.
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I can't speak about your situation directly, but I had a similar experience. There was a corps rehearsing not too far from my house a couple of years ago and I decided to go watch them. I thought I'd do something kind of nice and take them some home baked cookies. My wife then baked over 500 cookies and I dropped them off at the chuck truck. The guy had me give him my name and address. I didn't know why, nor did I care. I don't do things like that for "thank yous". Anyhoo, later that day before they did the final run through of the day they made annoucements with special thank yous for various people. One of them was someone who did something for one of the meals that day, so I was actually at that point expecting something to be said. Nothing. And we never received anything after that. I actually sent the corps an email stating my disatisfaction about how my wife made them over 500 cookies and not so much as a "Hey, thanks". Even after the email, nothing. Needless to say, I'll never do anything like that again for that corps.
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The OP has some serious talent! I can only imagine how incredible that solo would have sounded without the badly designed electronic enhancement. Let him play without the electronic crutch!
I don't understand this comment. How is pointing the bell of the horn at a microphone a crutch? He's still playing what is written on the paper (mostly), it's just coming out of the speakers a little different.
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I have a question.
I heard recently that DCI run a courtesy bus from Lucas Oil Stadium to a large public park where some of the corps either practice or use to warm up.
Can anyone tell me if this is true?
Last year, yes, there was free bus shuttles between the warm up area and the stadium. Cook's bus company I believe. I can't say the same thing about this year or not.
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Yeah, don't remind me...8 age outs this year.
5 yr vets:
2 lead baris (horn sergeant/soloist, other guy is bari/euph section leader)
1 contra (section leader)
1 drum major (trumpet 06-08, DM 09-10)
1 snare (center)
All aging out except snare.
Hope that clears it up.
Which center snare? There's two of them. (I actually know which one.)
Finally watched the ATL video from last night. I still have no idea what I'm supposed to be taking away from this show, but I don't care - it's great. The tuba feature is awesome and the charts make you bop your head whether you want to or not.The tenors got kind of swallowed up by the dome, it seems, which is not a good sign for Indy (hopefully audio editing magic will help that on the DVD's), and it seems like the show is still lacking a bit of punch at the very end - it's a very abrupt transition to "ok, now we're finishing up" mode, and very short.
Even so, this is one of the most sophisticated programs they've put out, and I can totally see them keeping 2nd with it.
Mike
Oh yeah, and they do use electronics in the way that we were hoping corps would - innovative yet not overwhelming.
I actually agree with you (except for the electronincs, because I just hate electronics).
Their show still really just doesn't do anything for me, but I'm not allowed to voice my opinion for some reason because apparently I'm a buzz kill.
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Can someone tell me what that is supposed to mean. I've seen it a lot this year.... is it an inside joke? I only count 3 words. Please help this idiot understand.
The two are completely independent of each other.
"Six Words" is to Bluecoats like "SUTA" is to Phantom, or "Splooie" is to Cavies. It's something you will never know unless you march/have marched Bluecoats, or someone tells you that shouldn't.
His "Let's go Blooooooooo" is just an additional statement that has nothing to do with "Six Words".
Does that help?
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*shakes head* I've lived in Ohio all my life. This is embarrassing.
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... They can't control what the guys in green shirts are going to do, ...
Are you sure about that?
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yeah I was there- so pumped- so awesome- great show and to beat a VERY STRONG Cavalier showing tonight says all the much more for this. I watched the coats work on the same 1 minute chunk of the show for hours today and it really paid off... Cavies were on fire tonight- they had a great show and had the crowd going nuts and all that-- that we went on before them and still came out 0.45 ahead of their strong showing means a lot. I hope the membership realizes that there's nowhere in the rulebook that says they can't take it all-- that this can't be the year to win. Why settle for Bronze or Silver when you've got the package to go all the way. My Dad (who is a notoriously tough DCI critic, not from experience, just from being brutally honest) said "wow- they're really good THIS year..." I was like... yeah Dad... thanks..
(hoping for no buzz kills this time from a certain tenor player FMM)
Excuse me DH? I may see them again on Tuesday and might just have to weigh in on my "new" opinion. Otherwise it'll be quarterfinals in the theater. I'm looking forward to this.
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This may be a stupid question (and patially rhetorical), but doesn't the "I" in DCI stand for "International"?
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Any chance I could get pictures of the Randall May tenor carrier?