Product Description
The revolutionary KickPort instantly improves the sound of any bass drum. More low end! More tone! More punch! Better feel!
| List Price: | $64.99 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6263 in Musical Instruments
- Brand: Kickport
- Model: KP-1Chrome
- Released on: 2011-02-02
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 4.00" h x 8.50" w x 8.00" l, .75 pounds
Features
- Software ampeg svx
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Shaun
It works. Enough said. Now you don't have to read the rest if you don't want to.
I had been looking at this for about a year and finally bought it. Simply, it gives the drum more punch which is amazing. It's lower and doesn't resonate as long, which sounds fantastic when you're playing the set acoustic. The drum will sound even better through a mic like if you're at a live show or recording. The chrome color looks very slick on my all black drumset. Don't buy a ported drumhead if you want to use this; it says that it will work for port holes 5"-5.5" but the Kickport itself comes with a stencil to cut their ideal 5.25" hole. Once again, couldn't be happier. Buy this, you will no regret it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Jeff Robinson
I'm in the middle of pre-production for a band and had heard about this item. A drummer I know had used one of these and it's been on my list for the past year. I finally picked one up at Guitar Center. In the studio, I've had the experience of duct-taping around the lip of the hole in the front of a bass drum and noticed the improved tone through creating a more substantial hole for the air to exit the drum. This affected the tone of the drum in going from flabby, to tight. The choice in the studio for a drummer has always been- with out without hole in resonant head on kick. So I took this to rehearsal and opened the pack. The directions seem pretty straight-forward. When seeing how you have to roll back the rubber flange before inserting this thing into the hole on the resonant head, I immediately thought, "Why isn't this a two-piece unit?" The back sleeve should snap onto the front flange for easy application. The company provides a reinforcement ring that is cut to a larger diameter than the kickport. The concept is that you place the adhesive side of the reinforcement ring onto the resonant head around the hole. Slit the head in 3 places up to the reinforcement and then force the kickport in to that hole. The struggle is pretty incredible. Without the reinforcement ring, you'd easily tear the head. The problem is, with the reinforcement ring, you are committed to only use this kickport on THAT head alone. Change the head, and you have to buy a new kickport- unless Kickport expects that they can sell you additional reinforcement rings. Only one comes in the pack and when it's used, you're done. Making the kickport a two-piece unit would make it reusable on ANY resonant you desired to.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By R. MacEachern
I love this thing. It basically does what it says. Standing anywhere in the room, you can hear the bass drum is a little deeper, open, richer sound. But if you move to stand in the path of the kickport it is also a more projected sound.
The sound is better, which is a great bonus in itself, but because I didn't have a hole in the reso head before, trying to bury the hammer would give me an "echo" effect as the hammer & head vibrated against each other very briefly. Adding a hole in the reso would eliminate this, but adding the kickport makes it sweeter. I know one other drummer who decided to get a kickport based on the difference it made on my kit. I would recommend.
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