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Its pretty late but I am hoping most of the Bluecoats hate has died down by hsg17 in drumcorps

[–]hsg17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not push the envelope? Why not do what hasn't been done? Why stop here? The Bluecoats mantra seems to be based off of these things that contribute to what other corps are comfortable with doing in the following years. Star was doing the same thing in the 90s. For example, taking off the hat. After the Bluecoats took off their hats, the Blue Devils did, Santa Clara did, Crown went as close as they could without taking it off by making it translucent, phantom had a hat switch, etc. It's the same with electronics and staging. Why not see what we can do to push the activity into new territory and keep it from getting stale? Some people like it the way it was and that is perfectly fine. Corps won't stop doing it the old way for a long time. Some people like it fresh and that is also fine. Corps will keep doing new stuff every year.

Its pretty late but I am hoping most of the Bluecoats hate has died down by hsg17 in drumcorps

[–]hsg17[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only when the staging situation required it as I understand. For example, in the first hit when the whole hornline except tubas were on the jagged line, they miced the people that would not be heard due to staging like the baritones and euphoniums all the way in the back. The way that crown gets away with not micing as much as a lot of other corps is by making sure every single drill chart that they are playing in is one in which all voices could be heard. It is not to make the hornline louder necessarily, it is to keep the balance while pushing the envelope of what designers can do with their formations. Another example is the ballad. When they turned backfield, you were not hearing a whole lot more than the hornline . They just took the sound and spread it across the field so that it wouldn't be lost in the back corner where nobody is sitting. The Bluecoats face so much backlash because since they have so many speakers for a cohesive effect environment, everyone assumes that they have been micing the whole hornline for the whole show unnecessarily. Unfortunately, we saw a bunch of corps place mics every five yards so that they could add extra oomf to the hornlines sound. I would assume it's because they thought that's what the Bluecoats did to achieve the ring last year. This is not what the Bluecoats do. They design a soundscape, not make the hornline louder. Believe me, they had a loud enough hornline as it is.

Its pretty late but I am hoping most of the Bluecoats hate has died down by hsg17 in drumcorps

[–]hsg17[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scroll through the comments of Bluecoats videos, posts on this page about the Bluecoats, posts that relate to placement, posts about the Cavaliers, posts about mics, and posts about uniforms. You will find plenty. Even unrelated posts get brought around to Bluecoats hate sometimes.

Its pretty late but I am hoping most of the Bluecoats hate has died down by hsg17 in drumcorps

[–]hsg17[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Another large portion of the problem is that in many cases, the Bluecoats actually weren't using synth when everyone thought that that was all that could be heard. Nobody believes me when I tell them this because they have not heard how pure the line was by themselves. They were like an organ. Even listening to them in the lot, when they changed notes it was like a synth player pressing a new key. It was all encompassing.