NotAClue

Greg, do we really want to start this discussion up here? Are you going to tell them the rental costs and setup time for a decent stadium system or shall I? When you and I look at this issue on a competition weekend, we see a high school stadium, and each junior corps rolling in a small, usually decent quality speaker cluster onto either 40, sometimes with a subwoofer. And then when we go to work on Monday we see a 5,000 seat theatre with two 20 cabinet line arrays that several pros spent several days tuning and programming to even out response in the venue. I see the "experts" propound their theories about amplification here on DCP and cringe. Someday you and I have raise this with Pat Baltzell and Mikael Stewart (house sound for literally dozens of Oscars, Emmys, and Superbowl broadcasts) and try to describe just what it is that competitive DCI drum corps are doing with amplification in everything from 500 seat bleachers to 50,000 seat stadia. Should be good for a laugh. You know this as well as I do. In entertainment everyone has two jobs. Their own, and audio. (By the way, Greg is a big deal theatre and theme park installation sound guru. And he's a really great Caption Head too.)

Okay then. Kingsmen Senior: 5 Nats 2 DM 7 CG 10 Perc 14 Brass 2 Plugs (much loved)

Only if we appeared at Nats? Our season finished back in July. Peter Baird Director Kingsmen Senior Corps

Sorry. Death In Venice was Thomas Mann. I get them confused.

Geez, I dunno. Siddhartha was cool, but Death In Venice kind of creeped me out.

Well said, Tom. And I add my thanks to DCIP as well for letting us on the field this season. We had a great time and actually improved over a few weeks. The NorCal trip was terrific! It feels very strange to be done in July... I'd like to give a shout out to some of the people who encouraged us this season: Tom Hope--DCI Pacific Mike Nash--SoCal Dream Greg Gilman--Renegades Kathy Serksnis--Vanguard Stuart Pompel--Pacific Crest Rob Lowery--Mystikal Carolyn Parsons--Impulse Ed Martin--Yamato Gary Locke--RCC Ken Norman--Man, Myth, Legend Isn't drum corps great?

July 18, 2009 San Jose, CA Renegades 82.688 SoCal Dream 69.350 Kingsmen 63.750