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Location: big island | i got an LP angled cajon a week ago and i don't get any play time cuz my kids are bogarting it. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Really...very interesting...~Oh, Al~ |
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Location: big island | in all fairness, i bought it a week ago, it arrived last monday. alotta "bang for the buck"! i will probably want to record with it so i'm gonna check out the mic that paul mentions. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I had fun with mine last night!~ |
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Location: NJ | Really???
Is the inside of it washable?? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | What!!!!!
and kill that special smell! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Speaking of the insides, I noticed that the one at Amelia used about a half-dozen bells to obtain its snare-like tones. Mine has a number of small chains similar in size to a medium size necklace. Is this like comparing humbuckers and single-coils? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've only seen them on the internet. I never heard of them till you guys started talking about them. Of the ones on the internet, I've seen an actual snare from a drum used and also wires that looked like guitar strings strung across the inside of the front, sometimes diagonally and sometimes top to bottom. |
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Location: big island | my LP has snares. they resemble chains at first glance but upon closer inspection, they are snares like the ones on the bottom of a snare drum. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Speaking of the insides, I noticed that the one at Amelia used about a half-dozen bells to obtain its snare-like tones. Mine has a number of small chains similar in size to a medium size necklace. Is this like comparing humbuckers and single-coils? The bells are not that important. The main source of the snare sound was a couple of 0.042-ish guitar strings under tension, resting against the front panel, exactly as Mark describes. Some cajons use this method, others such as the LP angle-panel use cut down snaredrum wires. Amounts to the same thing. Some have sophisticated mechanisms to adjust the snare sound (which triples the cost of the thing) That pretty much amounts to attempting to gold-plate a turd.
Randy, I have only 2 mics left from my current stock. I can get more but they are out of stock at the distributor so could be several weeks. |
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Location: NJ | As I was describing to Temp & Beal:
They both sound GOOD, . . each just a lil' "different" . . .
Temp's ChineeProto sounds like set of chrome Slingerlands . . . Wet&Snare-y . . .
The AngleFronts're a bit Drier&Woody-er . . . like a big, heavy set of wooden Ludwigs . . .
BothGood/Different. |
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Location: Scotland | For those of you who bought Cajons from Al and microphones from me, just thought I'd share this neat little internal microphone instalation.
Remove the thumbscrew/bolt from the microphone clamp and drill a hole in the base of the cajon. The mike now screws directly to this. Get hold of a male XLR chassis plug and mount it in the back of the cajon. Take a short length of microphone cable and solder a female XLR line socket to it, soldering the other end to the chassis plug.
The entire job took me less than 20 mins. I'm not really sure if it's worth the effort but it looks tidier and saves all of 45 seconds of set-up time at a gig!
Incidentaly, I have 1 of these mikes left and that's it, I can't get any more. So if you need one now's your last chance. $65 plus shiping
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Location: NJ | GreatIdea!!!
When we had this set up for "th'Vic", Paul installed two mics into it, the one in the pic for the "kick", and a smaller, condensor mic for the "slap" of the snare (and each mic was eq'd correspondingly) . . .
Thru a PAIR of Bose units, it sounded KILLAH!!!!! |
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Location: Scotland | Yeah, it was pretty damn good
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Location: NJ | btw;
The cajon came over w/me from the States.
We figured "why transport an empty box?", so I took the face-plate off (17screws), and we PACKED it with sundry goodies & closed it back up again.
I fashioned a sturdy handle onto the shipping carton, and it served as THIRTY-NINE pounds of Checked Baggage . . .
Got a couple sideways-glances at Security, but it made it there without a hitch.
(I CAN tell you tho, that I didn't "miss it" on the return trip). |
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Location: Scotland | I'm already through 1 pack of Habanero pistachios and 2 packs of chilli mango. When you coming back? I was rehearsing with Phe and Lois this afternoon, opened a pack of chilli mango.... gone in minutes. |
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Location: NJ | Did we get you some of the candied ginger as well?? GoodStuff!!
I chopped some up & threw 'em into a saucepan of fresh orange juice & boiled it down t'make a sauce-base for some shrimp stir-fry . . . |
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Location: Scotland | yep, there are a coupla bags of ginger. hat sounds like it would work with fresh mango instead of the OJ. I know what I'm having for dinner tonight! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Paul, the cajon idea is brilliant. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well I finally did the microphone upgrade.
Actually put two jacks in (one on each back corner) so that I could run dual mics for low and high frequencies if I decide I want to down the road.
Did a few minutes of recording....FANTASTIC!
Thanks again for the great idea Paul and for those of you with that extra bit of Christmas cash still laying around............
CALL AL AND BUY A CAJON!!!!
They are kick ass fun and sound great. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Bobbo also made me go out and buy a REAL tambourine today. Laughed at me when I told him I did not have one (he has 3!!)
Guess a cowbell is next ;)
With the new mic'd up cajon, the shakers and cabasa I had and now the new tambourine I am a percussion machine! :cool:
Cliff and I are shown playing the cajon on the March 2010 calendar page. |
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Location: Michigan | Those are so cool, if I could only keep a beat. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I've taken mine out several times when I know there's going to be a drummer in the house willing to sit in for a set or two. I use just one mic with a clip-on attachment. |
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Location: ms | Paul that looks like a Taylor behind the drums. |
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