It's way past midnight on spring break so why not make myself a website. Go check out my homecoming game mixer cam from my TSOPE Back Ensemble youtube channel! Homecoming Game Mixer Cam. (Disclaimer, everything activated by us will sound early to account for the time it takes for the sound to cross the field.) :]
I am also on Instagram for those who are trying to contact me or just see what I'm up to (I hardly post ever on there.)
Outside of marching band, I am an aspiring audio technician, I have 3-4 years of experience just from working with the band, aswell as about a year of almost everything you could think of for theatre stage stuff. I've spent this past school year (my SENIOR year) learning as much as I could about the lighting booth, the mixer in the auditorium (which is just a bigger version of the one I used regularly), and even running the scrim/curtains for some theatre rehearsals.
My board (The Yamaha TF1 Digital Audio Mixer) that i've been using since 2021, has undergone a lot of changes mostly within just this last year of marching band. For example, the Back Ensemble used to be in a trailer, otherwise known as the "Taco Truck" with sides that would come down and everything. Super convenient and nobody ever squashed their fingers putting down and lifting up the doors. (The first part is true, ask Parker Towning about the second part 🙄)
Anyways, it all used to be hardwired into the trailer. Everything from the speakers, to the computer(s) when we stopped using the macbooks, to even the keyboards that we would keep in there before we realized how leaky it was when it rained. It was a huge change moving out of that and into a prop. One huge downside of it was the loss of ease by not having it all ready to go at just the press of a button. It makes up for it now, though, being actually portable by itself, with a portable battery andwith a drawer for the keyboard and any smaller cords.
The new setup also required a whole lot of rewiring, almost entirely done by the Beyoncé loving god among men Mr. Jason Elks. Him and his diciple, Sandro Mocevic, aswell as myself, helped assemble the new mixer cart, and the accompanying loom to connect to the cable box below the conductor's prop. This made it much easier than plugging everything in and dealing with each individual wire, and with everyone's combined efforts, and with help from the prop team/pushers and speaker-pushers this year was considered an overwhelming success from a technological standpoint despite all of the obstacles that had to be overcome.
Giulianna Ales (Synth 1, 2021) | Lydia Hunter (Conductor 2021) | Parker Towning (Synth 2, 2021, Synth 1 2022-Current) | Kayleah Griddine (SFX 2021) | Calvin Baker (Mixer 2021-2023) | Marissa Ruggiero (Conductor 2022) | Gwen Therrien (SFX 2022) | Carolina Bates (Synth 2, 2022) | Angelina Anderson (Conductor 2023-Current) | Tyler Fuller (SFX 2023-Current) | Miles Katsaros (Synth 2, 2023) The Tarpon Conservatory Instagram | TSOPE Website | TSOPE Youtube | Back Ensemble Instagram | Back Ensemble Youtube See my WIP TSOPE 23' Magazine here: Band Kids Digest
Status & Info
Thank You Back Ensemblians!
Links