camel lips Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Who cares about trombones? Let's get these woodwinds on the field next season ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drangin Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Who cares about trombones? Let's get these woodwinds on the field next season ! Yeah...those aren't flutes and clarinets, they're the nails in DCI's coffin. Anyone have any drum corps LPs from the 1970s they wanna sell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Magnepans? Nice, what's driving your room dividers? Bryston Four of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmjfelts1988 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Who cares about trombones? Let's get these woodwinds on the field next season ! Ever cross your mind that adding trombones/all brass have probably prolonged the entrance of woodwinds into the activity? Think about it, the shortest time frame we've ever had between major hornline instrumentation overhauls was 10 years (3 valved G horns to Bb/any key marching bell fronts...1990-2000). It took us 14 years from then to get to this one. 12 years to go from two valves to three. Change takes time to adjust to. What makes you think it will be any shorter of an interval between all brass to woodwinds? Oh don't get me wrong....woodwinds WILL come. But I think all brass has pushed it back quite a distance in the future at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietcity Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Bryston Four of them. Sweetness. Must image like mad. Sonus Faber / Musical Fidelity myself. Not to derail too much, but maybe your next poll could be on what kind of equipment DCP folks use to listen to drum corps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flammaster Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Sherwood 8910 receiver. AR4x, JBL 20-T upstairs. Pioneer SX-850 receiver JBL L-96 and AR 2ax speakers. downstairs. I like the AR's the best. Very warm sounding. The JBL are very detailed. Both together compliment each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camel lips Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 So, since the season is under way and I don't see this being discussed anywhere else, I figured this would be a good thread to start. What corps have started taking advantage of the ability to use trombones and other brass instruments previously not allowed? The only ones I've seen so far are SCV. Can anyone who has seen the show live tell us just how these instruments are being used? Sneak peak at Cadets 2015 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152559753027813&set=vb.691737812&type=2&theater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumcorpsfever Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 For all the hoopla about the rule change, the change on the field has been very minimal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drangin Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Trombones can't be heard without microphones? You're either joking, biased, or just not very knowledgeable on the matter. Right, so that's why Madison used a microphone on the trombone soloist, so we could hear the beautiful warm tone of the polypropylene speaker cone in the sound system. What would it sound like without amplification? Rather puny, actually. Being a trombone player who arranged for marching bands for twenty years, I am somewhat familiar with how trombones sound on the field. SCV uses trombones for what they're best for outdoors; Madison uses them for what they're the worst for outdoors. My hope is that if corps have to use trombones, they at least use bass trombones to regain the sound they lost when they switched from contrabass bugles to tubas. Then again, if you're gonna use trombones, do it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuSDuL2MgDQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 (edited) Anyone have any drum corps LPs from the 1970s they wanna sell? Yes. but I would need to know first if you'd take in exchange for my sale to you of my Drum Corps 70's LP's, can I have as payment nine 1970 imitation car mufflers, and one bando looking crown shako ? Edited July 3, 2014 by BRASSO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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