When Amplification Was Not Required In Drum Corps
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I meant to say "since one microphone" instead of "since a microphone".
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Amplification isn't required now. Sometimes you will see microphones, but they're almost always just for recording the audio since a microphone won't pick up solos very well. Even if it's actually to amplify the solo, get the fuck over it, worry about something like world hunger. DCI is not dying because it's progressing
Most of the time trumpet solos aren't amplified. They mainly amplify mellophone, baritone, and (rarely) contra solos. It's not like this has become a problem.
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good god. I don't know if I should be blown away in a good or bad way by the SCV clip. It would have been entertaining to watch regardless :)
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@OmgMellophone yes because you can tell how good tone quality is on videos from the late 70's on youtube.
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Long live BTTW and RFL!!! With quality, of course!!
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@OmgMellophone It all depends on what drum corps you were listening to back then! Considering the instruments there was quite a bit of adjusting required to achieve"beauty of tone" and "playing in tune"! A number of corps very nearly maxed out the TQ & I boxes and some actually did!! Valve-slide, valve-rotor instuments weren't exactly Rolls Royces or Bentleys in their day...
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Simply amazing
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The art of this sport may have evolved but this one thing remains. The sheer raw power those Corps brought intensified the crowds. Fans would be waiting for that moment, when the corps would begin to crescendo, teasing them, then in a powerful, unapologetic wave, they felt the ground under them shaking, their whole body vibrating as cords resolved through them, not around them. Music oscillated every cell of their being and forever changed them. They became rabid screaming applauding DCI junkies
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@tmtv633 As great screamers as they may be, they didn't have a corps playing at FFF behind them.
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@RockstarDaniel Uhh that would be falsifying the sound. Those great screamers from the 70's didn't need one.
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Amplification wasn't used. Neither was tone quality.
OmgMellophone 2 months ago 14
Regardless of how anyone feels about drum corps amplification, the fact is that the activity has progressed a great deal since the time of this video. These old corps are absolutely GREAT for what they presented (the raw power alone is something to be respected). But EVERYTHING progresses unless it dies. Considering the length of time that drum corps has been around, some sort of evolution had to take place. If drum corps didn't evolve and doesn't continue to evolve it will die.
mynamisdan 3 months ago 9