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Side ports seem to be in vogue right now. I prefer mine at the front
What about outdoor gigs and rain getting in guitar?
I really want to try one. Though on my recent L2-230 purchase .... The guitar is already deafeningly loud!
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tuned speaker sound ports are use long pipes to reinforce low bass frequencies between around 70Hz-100Hz
Just cutting a hole in a soundbox does not produce a tuned port.
You can actually buy tuned ports to add to the normal sound hole, I have one in a drawer, I've seen a makeshift one done on a contrabass guitar with plastic sheeting cut and rolled into a tube, to lower the bass handling of the contrabass
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having a crack with this calculator, I assume a guitar body is about 18 litres but I am not sure what numbers to put in for the rest
In use, I can hear the same frequencies from the port as the front soundhole, but when I play a normal guitar, I tend to hear the treble and bass more than the mids, so using the port brings the mids back in to play for my ears
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I'd take a bet that's how this concept was discovered in the first place...
For what it's worth, I would be extremely wary about doing that to a solid-sides guitar without reinforcing the inside around the hole, otherwise splitting and/or the wood trying to return to its un-bent shape around the edges is quite likely.
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I did worry about the structure
Avalon were going to strengthen the one in mine, but decided not to. It's an oval shape, about 45mm x 25mm
As you say, it's similar to a preamp hole really
My Yulong Guo classical was made with a much large port, and also has no extra support
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I would personally warn against having a soundport cut into a guitar by a luthier who doesn't already incorporate them into their work
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