Brass sousaphones will resonate better than fiberglass for obvious reasons. Yes, lower octaves on a sousaphone are much more difficult to be heard than higher octaves. Fiberglass or not, it will take a lot of air to be heard on the lower octaves at the same power as the upper octaves. Which is why most sousaphone/tuba sections split the octaves among each other in a 2:1 (low:high) ratio.
I remember we had 4 FiberBrass Jupiters at my high school. I played one my senior year and it just paled in comparison to the old Conns and Holtons we had. My first year there I played a Holton, the next year I played a Conn 14K, and my senior year I played a Jupiter. The brass horns are superior (more resonance), but different strokes for different folks as they say.
Sousaphones hold the band together. I played a fiberglass and it played really awesome. There is nothing wrong with fiberglass. BTW we got a superior on the mpa that year.
Actually fiberglass sousaphones are about the same in price as the brass ones depending on the brand that is purchased. If I was Southern's Director and we were in line for some new tubas, I would get the new FiberBrass Sousaphones by Jupiter. They have the look and weight of fiberglass but the sound of regular brass. They can be seen on the SamAsh website
Im glad I finally found a video of just you guys playing. Ya'll got some sound. But I would really love to here you guys on some silver or brass horns. Man, I can only imagine cause i know thats never gonna happen. Be ups though. Yall should have more video of just yall. B phi B 05'
@finneyboy50 VSU uses Conn 20K sousas, and those are 6/4 size sousaphones. So naturally they're going to be bassy and loud. I've played King brass and fiberglass sousas, they put out the same volume and they're both 4/4 size sousaphones. The bigger the tuba/sousa, the darker and louder it's going to be. The smaller the tuba/sousa, the brighter and thinner it's going to be. Valve bore is of small importance when compared to the bugle size.
@Rilo12 I must agree fiberglass horns sound hollow because sound is created by vibrations since they are so stiff fiberglass will never resonant the same as brass but them boys sound descent though...
It is. For our homecoming game, one of my schools alumni from Cookman brought one of their old, not silver, horns and I got to try it out. It was sexy. Nice fat loud sound. hehe
@sousa07ful the big thing about fiberglass sousaphones is they produce a nice tone on high notes (it's really crisp) but brass sousaphones are much "warmer" in tone
if you want clean, go drum and bugle, this is about power, pure and simple. if you don't care for the methodology that's probably because you're not part of the demographic it was designed for. the folks that are supposed to enjoy it do, everyone else, find another channel, trust me, we won't miss you
man i personally like SU tubas and i met some of them when they came to my school (TnSU) in 2008 but to the people that say they need brass horns......i say if it ain't broke don't fix it!!!!
i apologize for that comment. CoolJoshBaby your right everyone has their time to shine...SU do your thing. im sure Su is loud as fuck on brass. fiber glass does hold back.. but its all good..RESPECT
@3knurcbct yes the tone is more raspy and doesnt sound as full as a brass i've played both and if i want that blasting raspy tone i'd use a fiberglass but if i want the more full and to me louder tone brass
Interesting comments on here. The main reason why any school uses fiber glass sousaphones is because they are cheap as shit. They are also super easy to blast on which I guess is why it fits SU's style.
@wilshawn91 straight up bruh, I love The Human Jukebox to death. It just kills me when people come on SU videos criticizing. If you think they are so horrible, then don't leave a comment. Now I respect BCU a lot for the simple fact that it's a HBCU and SU deserves the same respect. And to the people talking about "their plastic tubas", you're not the one playing on them so don't worry about them. "S"
Why is it that the left side is turned to where they can't even see, the conductor seems too close for anyone but the center to see, and he's not paying attention half of the time anyway?
Every time someone post a vid of SU, a SU hater always talk about the fiberglass Tubas when they can't find anything else wrong with SU. (And fiberglass is perfectly fine)
@Rilo12 man SWAC would mess over any other Conference with Tubas, T-pets, horms, and everything else. JSU & UAPB not the only ones with nice Tuba secttions
I know SU likes to do "acrobatics" with their tubas but damn. They need to get metal horns instead of the plastic crap. They would be so much more full and louder as well. You can hear them when the band is playing unless they playing high F's. LMAO C'mon SU!!! Get with the program...
I've been playing tuba for about 2 years, and the only sousaphone i played was a fiberglass one. It was harder to get a single sound out of that thing compared to my normal brass tuba. Was the fact it was fiberglass the cause, or do i just suck?
This is 9 years ago but I have the same issue today… I can play much louder on a concert tuba, We only have 4 fiberglass sousas and they are old so. I tried someone else’s Sousa and had to hold the mouthpiece then I could play loud but I guess they each have problems
Consider the camera, this is 2008, I was using a 2005 Model Samsung DV camcorder Unlike Today's High Def Video and Audio devices, the Mic is internal and directional. The camera catches what's directly in front of it more than any other sound. I'm less than 6 feet away from the tuba players at a Low angle, the sound changes as I move backward. The Audio is as standard as it gets for that era. Also, consider those guys are on fiberglass horns. They don't give off the rattling brass effect and as they do now with the Hybrids.
*shudders* The dreaded fiberglass. I HATE playing fiberglass. You can't play loud without blasting. I hate them with a firey passion. And WTF with the dude at 1:04 . Puffing his cheeks? *facepalm*
I played the tuba/sousaphone for many years. There is a huge difference in sound between fiber glass and brass. If they did this on brass sousaphones, musically speaking, it would sound terrible. So much vibration with the addition of metal on metal vibration. Not to sound racist but where I am from, you can tell the difference between a band that has majority African Americans from Caucasians. The African Americans go for power while the Caucasians go for style and finesse.
That honestly didn't sound good. Don't know how the SU version suppose to sound but the recorder was way to close for the video to give the true sound.
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When it’s 2022 but this video pops into your head lol
Exactly why im here
Wow they're able to get an amazing sound out of those fiberglass Tubas!
Brass sousaphones will resonate better than fiberglass for obvious reasons. Yes, lower octaves on a sousaphone are much more difficult to be heard than higher octaves. Fiberglass or not, it will take a lot of air to be heard on the lower octaves at the same power as the upper octaves. Which is why most sousaphone/tuba sections split the octaves among each other in a 2:1 (low:high) ratio.
And they JUST switched to brass 2 weeks ago!
I remember we had 4 FiberBrass Jupiters at my high school. I played one my senior year and it just paled in comparison to the old Conns and Holtons we had. My first year there I played a Holton, the next year I played a Conn 14K, and my senior year I played a Jupiter. The brass horns are superior (more resonance), but different strokes for different folks as they say.
Nah I can assure u they would have preferred conns lol
Good Memories
they crank that shit at the end.... TURN UP!!!
Horsepower had the best tubas ever...watch the old vidz
Sousaphones hold the band together. I played a fiberglass and it played really awesome. There is nothing wrong with fiberglass. BTW we got a superior on the mpa that year.
Definitely something wrong with fg brass when playing at such force
Believe me when I say this, I do love Southern tuba section but there was something...missing from this.
Actually fiberglass sousaphones are about the same in price as the brass ones depending on the brand that is purchased. If I was Southern's Director and we were in line for some new tubas, I would get the new FiberBrass Sousaphones by Jupiter. They have the look and weight of fiberglass but the sound of regular brass. They can be seen on the SamAsh website
Still think about this video in 2024
Im glad I finally found a video of just you guys playing. Ya'll got some sound. But I would really love to here you guys on some silver or brass horns. Man, I can only imagine cause i know thats never gonna happen. Be ups though. Yall should have more video of just yall. B phi B 05'
that didn’t age well
those chords though
yeah they had most of them them since the 1970's
I love when ppl hate on tha best but I guess thats tha price U have to pay to be on TOP!
@finneyboy50 VSU uses Conn 20K sousas, and those are 6/4 size sousaphones. So naturally they're going to be bassy and loud. I've played King brass and fiberglass sousas, they put out the same volume and they're both 4/4 size sousaphones. The bigger the tuba/sousa, the darker and louder it's going to be. The smaller the tuba/sousa, the brighter and thinner it's going to be. Valve bore is of small importance when compared to the bugle size.
the juke has always had fiberglass its part of there field show as well it catches the eye better
Morehouse has been doing those harmony splits on Transformers since the year 2000
HP owns this!!!!Best I've ever heard.
all dislikes came from Gram Fam. Lol maybe a few J-Stanks
i apologize for that comment. CoolJoshBaby your right everyone has their time to shine...SU do your thing.
@Rilo12 I must agree fiberglass horns sound hollow because sound is created by vibrations since they are so stiff fiberglass will never resonant the same as brass but them boys sound descent though...
@TheKidAdge Fiberglass fits their style and music more. There is probably various other reasons too for them having fiber glass.
It is. For our homecoming game, one of my schools alumni from Cookman brought one of their old, not silver, horns and I got to try it out. It was sexy. Nice fat loud sound. hehe
@71196jmg,its their style..noone else is using white tubas.....this is their form of originality.
tubas go in i love em
@sousa07ful the big thing about fiberglass sousaphones is they produce a nice tone on high notes (it's really crisp) but brass sousaphones are much "warmer" in tone
if you want clean, go drum and bugle, this is about power, pure and simple. if you don't care for the methodology that's probably because you're not part of the demographic it was designed for. the folks that are supposed to enjoy it do, everyone else, find another channel, trust me, we won't miss you
as far as i know southern's sousaphones are fiberglass because of the sound the directors want. but then again i may be wrong.
That's What I Call laying pipe!!!
It sucks because its on fiber glass horn.
Tubas com o bocal de saída de som de plástico, nunca tinha visto antes, até eu ver esse vídeo...
man i personally like SU tubas and i met some of them when they came to my school (TnSU) in 2008 but to the people that say they need brass horns......i say if it ain't broke don't fix it!!!!
Wow. It's alot of Grade "A" hate in here.
They would sound way better on brass not fiberglass
The Mayeux Productions also you can't do the fun moves on them
The Mayeux Productions lies they have them now and sound the same
Andy Mayeux Productions p
The fibreglass Tubas sound just as good.. Also they don’t get all of those dents in them from carelessness in just 2 yrs..
Why do people come on here talking about the fiberglass, like it's going to change something?
@NinjaMusicDude fiberglass horns shows how much of a beast you are, if you can play on fiberglass, WTF can you do on a brass horn?
i sound lik shit wen i play on fiber but wen i go bac on too Silva KIng aint no stopin lol
i apologize for that comment. CoolJoshBaby your right everyone has their time to shine...SU do your thing. im sure Su is loud as fuck on brass. fiber glass does hold back.. but its all good..RESPECT
conn20k is the caddy of sousaphones
my high scool has two conns we dont use them we have fiberglass yahmas and we can put out just as much sound as a brass sousaphone
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@3knurcbct yes the tone is more raspy and doesnt sound as full as a brass i've played both and if i want that blasting raspy tone i'd use a fiberglass but if i want the more full and to me louder tone brass
@MrKomKast u must not have any taste because this was just amazing.
SU came a long long way from fiberglass tubas they came a very long way most improved section of the swac in 2022 goin into 2023
god dame!!!!! thats hott
@MrGuitar144 I completely agree. I have a 20k of my own. It's a beast.
@Rilo12 hey I'm A Southern Fan so I like White horse and not other
Interesting comments on here. The main reason why any school uses fiber glass sousaphones is because they are cheap as shit. They are also super easy to blast on which I guess is why it fits SU's style.
i will be down there in the N.O. for classic, so whats good lil homie lol
ur funny..this sounds like everybody else's fanfare in the SWAC..plus it was a PERSONAL opininon child!!!
They are actually fiberglass tubas
@trentsmith14738 coming from a tuba/sousaphone player i would like to say that we can be just as good as all the other instrument
@finneyboy50 oh yes i have and let me tell u, they are one of the best tuba sections.
@wilshawn91 straight up bruh, I love The Human Jukebox to death. It just kills me when people come on SU videos criticizing. If you think they are so horrible, then don't leave a comment. Now I respect BCU a lot for the simple fact that it's a HBCU and SU deserves the same respect. And to the people talking about "their plastic tubas", you're not the one playing on them so don't worry about them.
"S"
Why is it that the left side is turned to where they can't even see, the conductor seems too close for anyone but the center to see, and he's not paying attention half of the time anyway?
Every time someone post a vid of SU, a SU hater always talk about the fiberglass Tubas when they can't find anything else wrong with SU. (And fiberglass is perfectly fine)
@Rilo12 man SWAC would mess over any other Conference with Tubas, T-pets, horms, and everything else. JSU & UAPB not the only ones with nice Tuba secttions
fiberglass sousaphones ar alot lighter too you can do more with them
in my opinion B-PHI-B have the best non sliver 20kz this side of the mississippi lol and cookman just got some sexy ass conns lol
they need to paint their tubas brown so it doesnt stick out so much.
Only if you knew how old those dam horns are
It's about weight. Nothing more.
They sound tight, but they need some new horns, I don't care that its paper, i'm talking bout how old them horns are.
oh u knew what i meant. I stand corrected
Hell. If southern had brass tubas they'd cover the whole band up..
Why us it that the left side is turned away from the conductor and the conductor isn't paying attention half the time?
SU needs to just stop it with the fiberglass tubas, If they got some brass over there they would be kickin some ass forreal though....
@TheKidAdge nothings wrong with fiberglass tubas
@guyvascm Fiberglass sounds THINNER on the high notes..If you think that good tone....
@Rilo12 O I get it now. Ur saying we would be beastin if we had some brass
i love my fiberglass cuz i know mi school cant get the brass
like the vid i have a brass tuba not sousaphone, why so many haters on fiber glass??
my school has 1 fiberglass and 3 silver tubas we only use 2 of them
FHS silver Hornets p
@falloutboy7778 I agree they sound good but muffled and it's not the players it's the Tubas this would sound a lot better
@MrKomKast whoever said that wouldve caught hell if he was in the program LMAO!!!!
lol 2:08 they trying to do the bama state tuba line
you can find it under bama state tubas
Well its cool.jus could neva get the sound of a king white max love my sliver kings
blat- blat -blat-blat
Obviously they have fiberglass! Very few schools could afford 15+ sousaphones!
I can play both but fiberglass just doesn't have that ringing sound that brass does...fiberglass has an empty sound...
Set those sousa to stun!
@bdoggwith2gz That's understandable for a high school but a college organization gets a lot more money for everything...
All des haters y'all can't fuck wit da jukebox talking bout da fiber glass tubas its a tradition n y'all still can't hang
Shit They Sound Aite To Be Playing On Fiberglass Tubas...
I know SU likes to do "acrobatics" with their tubas but damn. They need to get metal horns instead of the plastic crap. They would be so much more full and louder as well. You can hear them when the band is playing unless they playing high F's. LMAO C'mon SU!!! Get with the program...
How do you not pass out?
I've been playing tuba for about 2 years, and the only sousaphone i played was a fiberglass one. It was harder to get a single sound out of that thing compared to my normal brass tuba. Was the fact it was fiberglass the cause, or do i just suck?
This is 9 years ago but I have the same issue today… I can play much louder on a concert tuba,
We only have 4 fiberglass sousas and they are old so. I tried someone else’s Sousa and had to hold the mouthpiece then I could play loud but I guess they each have problems
@martelbandheadsmith u right tho...
ya but fiberglass sous's dont compare to the sound of brass
what's up with his audio or don't sound right I know it wasn't the tubas😂😂
Consider the camera, this is 2008, I was using a 2005 Model Samsung DV camcorder Unlike Today's High Def Video and Audio devices, the Mic is internal and directional. The camera catches what's directly in front of it more than any other sound. I'm less than 6 feet away from the tuba players at a Low angle, the sound changes as I move backward. The Audio is as standard as it gets for that era.
Also, consider those guys are on fiberglass horns. They don't give off the rattling brass effect and as they do now with the Hybrids.
Book Multimedia tbh it was just the type of company there's was made by but some are good
VSU HORSEPOWER!!!!!! killed TRANSFORMERS !!!! what is this?????
*shudders* The dreaded fiberglass. I HATE playing fiberglass. You can't play loud without blasting. I hate them with a firey passion.
And WTF with the dude at 1:04 . Puffing his cheeks? *facepalm*
su tubas rock
I played the tuba/sousaphone for many years. There is a huge difference in sound between fiber glass and brass. If they did this on brass sousaphones, musically speaking, it would sound terrible. So much vibration with the addition of metal on metal vibration. Not to sound racist but where I am from, you can tell the difference between a band that has majority African Americans from Caucasians. The African Americans go for power while the Caucasians go for style and finesse.
Salve tuba
i think those r brass.i think dats a cover or something
That honestly didn't sound good. Don't know how the SU version suppose to sound but the recorder was way to close for the video to give the true sound.
i would have been on the football field if i would have moved back an further ...
Understandable.
Gram ate that ass up tho kmsl
really? im guessing youve never picked up a brass sousaphone ask anyone ever will tell that brass and sometimes silver are the best
The dude already explained why they have fiberglass... It won't fit there music , they would have to re-write all there music for the basses