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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Some of you might remember that after I returned from NAMM I mentioned that there were only a few items that excited me.
One of them was the CajonPort by Kickport. This is a portable ring that fits into the rear hole of your cajon and makes the bass sound fuller and fatter!
I went back to their booth about 5 times during the show and kept looking at it and listening to it (sometimes it was very noisy and hard to hear which is why I kept going back).
IMHO if you own a cajon (any brand) this is a MUST HAVE ACCESSORY that effects the sound of you cajon in an EXTREMELY POSITIVE WAY!
I WAS SHOCKED when this showed up by FedEx today.
I guess since I had shown such an interest in the CajonPort and had left my card with the company, they graciously sent one my way!
They take all of 2 minutes to insert properly and it comes with adjustment bands to allow for a snug fit with any brand cajon.
The LP Slant required 2 bands to properly fit nice and snug!
I would have gladly paid the $40 that these sell for......a bargain at twice the price for the improvement they make.
I know that Al was looking into these and he probably has them available or coming shortly
(and I apologize if I am speaking out of turn here Al but I just assumed as cool as these are that you would be getting some.....specially since you sold most of us our cajons!!!!)
Anyway, check with Al for pricing and availability. This is my winner for accessory of the year! |
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Location: Michigan | Me has to get one....my cajons are aching for one of these. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | But then I'd have to figure out a way to remount the mic now clamped to the lip. I think Temp shared with us a alternate mount directly through the wood with a permanent XLR jack. Is that what you did on yours? Looks like you have a pair of XLR jacks. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | and Stephen knows his cajons. Here he is accompanying Mark and I at Amelia last year, obviously very attentive to whatever we were playing with that all too familiar percussionist stare . . .
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | yeah Brad, I mounted two mics with external XLR jacks for easy connections using Temp's instructions. One mic is pointed toward the lows and the other is aimed at the wires for the highs.
I can plug either or both in depending on how I want the sound recorded.
The cajonport fits in perfectly and does not interfere with the mic placements in any way. |
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Location: Jet City | I need to get better at playing mine before I buy anything else for it.
I need cajon lessons. |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | What is a cajon? Seriously.
I always thought that was LA gangbanger slang for 'man-parts'?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | DAFS
It's what T28 is sitting on. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Beal:
DAFS
It's what T28 is sitting on. So it IS "man parts" |
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| Sweet, T! (Sorry, couldn't resist) Yeah, I was impressed by them on the cajon, less so with the O-Port for guitars.
Hmm, I see a call to Al in my near future.
Oh, and the spic version is "cojones" |
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Location: Scotland | If you have an internal mike the cajon port changes everything. In a studio situation where the rear port and the tapa are mic'd externally the effect of the cajon port is spectacular, and it makes a noticable difference acoustically. But, with an internal mic the low end can get unruly, especially when the levels need to go up. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Originally posted by G8r:
Oh, and the spic version is "cojones" Hard to believe this came outta you after climbing another members frame for using "Baba Louie"!!!
Shame on ya. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | It's ok to make fun of your own ethnicity....just not others
or so I am told |
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Location: NW Washington State | Looks just like a bass-reflex speaker port tube, but at a much higher price. Go to a site like partsexpress.com and search for port tube to get some ideas. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Originally posted by stephent28:
It's ok to make fun of your own ethnicity....just not others
or so I am told BULL SHIT! |
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| Sarcasm is simply lost on some people.
Frankly, what's truly offensive is the shameless and unmitigated hypocrisy of those who deride and decry behavior in others which they themselves feel free to partake as it suits them. To whit, publicly denigrating another board member and shouting obscenities.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I think I can make one of those with ABS fittings and a torch..... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Good sarcasm is lost on some people, or it wouldn't be good sarcasm. I'm going to send G8r a bill for all that wiki research I did on Baba Louie, but then somebody might call me a dumb Polack again. |
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| Polish lawyer jokes...now there's unlimited material. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If I was blonde, I'd have 3 strikes. BTW, the Polish, lawyer and blonde jokes are all the same. I checked all 17,000 of them, so you don't have to. Fortunatel, there were none about sombreros or donkeys, but there was one about a mule . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Presidential Polish Lawyer Hispatic Banjo jokes. |
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| but there was one about a mule . . . Tijuana bound, baby!
Back on topic - so this focuses the sound energy (like a speaker port), why does it work well on a cajon, but not on guitars? I've been underwhelmed by demos of the O-Port. Is it because the O-Port impede top vibration the way it's attached to a guitar? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Beal:
Presidential Polish Lawyer Hispatic Banjo jokes. Obama plays the banjo? Strike 347!!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You were OK until you got politics into it. Then you crossed the line.
Back to Cajons, I built my own last winter and it works great as an end table. My only specification was that I had to use up the piece of oak plywood I had in the shop for years. It actually sounds decent, but it's not like I need percussion to back up my solos in the basement. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by G8r:
so this focuses the sound energy (like a speaker port), why does it work well on a cajon, but not on guitars? I've been underwhelmed by demos of the O-Port. Is it because the O-Port impede top vibration the way it's attached to a guitar? "focuses the sound energy" is not what a bass reflex tube does. Speaker enclosure design is pretty complex and something of a black art and I do not pretend to be an expert by any means. The purpose of a bass reflex port is, and this is something of an over-simplification, to increase LF effeciency at or around the fundamental frequency of the enclosure. It's back to our old friend Dr. Helmholtz again. The diameter and length of reflex ports need to carefully calculated to work with the volume of air in the enclosure.
I have no idea what the oport is intending to achieve. Tonally I can hear a very subtle difference which is neither bettter nor worse than without it, just different, but certainly not what is claimed in the marketing. I haven't been able to test the feedback suppression claims. |
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| Ah, gotcha. Thanks, Temp. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I built my own last winter and it works great as an end table. My only specification was that I had to use up the piece of oak plywood I had in the shop for years. Mine is a great footstool! Unfortunately I have enough left to make at least one more....
This idea intrigues me. |
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