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Location: North Carolina | Not speakers and amps, but the other stuff - cables, duct tape, extension cords, whatnot.
When it's just me, it ain't much so I toss it all into this gym bag over the shoulder thing and I'm good to go. With the trio, well the stuff has grown, more mics, more cables, little expensive boxes that require even more cables. Now it's heavy.
So I switched to one of those $30 Wal-Mart pilot cases with wheels. More carrying capacity, easy to move and when you unzip the thing you can see everything at a glance. This is especially nice during teardown when I just throw everything into this wide open case, zip it up and get out. Sort it all out when I get home. |
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Location: Utah | We just use a gym bag, but it is pretty much full. The biggest hassle is the tangle of cords. The little velcro wraps are very helpful in keeping cords coiled, but the dang things disappear to that same place that socks in the dryer go to. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Flysig, cable clamps are so much easier for wrapping cords than velcro, and harder to lose. |
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Location: NJ | GigSkinz Bag |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The Gear Bags that came with the OFC Guitars are pretty nice and I've got mine suffed pretty full. I like all the compartments and the adjustable sizing. Of course it was pretty damn expensive gear bag, but considering you got a free OFC Guitar with it, I guess it wasn't too bad.
The "Will Robinson" gear backpack that Cliff has is pretty nice as well.
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Location: NJ | I just noticed (on the GigSkinz website) that they changed the look to more sedate, black suede-ish style . . . which would probably help to allieviate the "hairy eye-balls" from TSA when going thru the airport . . . |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I've been using variations of these aluminum briefcase type tool cases for years.
You can usually get them from Home Depot or Lowes for about $25.00, and the one below is on Amazon for $20.
I use the kind with a foam insert for mic's and for cables, tools, tuner, meter etc etc, I take all inserts out. The light gray color makes it easy to find stuff in low light. For transportation, they just stack, or line up, and you can put stuff (that's not too heavy) on top of them. Very convenient, and look nice too.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BDISDW |
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Location: Omaha, NE | For cable management, years ago a guy taught me his trick and its always worked for me.
Take the cable and pull the two free ends together. Then fold it over on itself as many time as it takes until you are left with about a 2' bundle. Then just tie the whole thing in a simple knot in the middle and toss it in the bag.
They never get tangled.
As to the question, I've got an old gym bag for cables and mic's. I found a perfect size padded nylon bag for my Vocalist Live 4, and my GNX 3000 has its own mini flight case. |
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Location: NJ | For cables, I've always followed the same school-of-thought when coiling hose or line on a boat . . .
This stuff develops a "memory" once it's been coiled, and if you just invest the initial time of "training" it when it's new, it gets easier with each subsequent time. Various bundlings/knottings give you nice, manangeble packages, but when you UNbundle it, you've got cable that twists to the left, THEN twists abruptly right, and is somewhat unmanageable. Cable that's been coiled in a consistent manner tends to lay flat/straight on the floor and REcoils easier as time goes by . . .
I usually start by creating one size coil (dependant up cable length) in one hand, and as I'm feeding the subsequent turns, I "twist" the coil lightly in my fingers to "feel" which way the cable WANTS t'go & feed it onto the coil in that direction. Eventually, you end up with coils of cable that "know" no OTHER way t'go . .
I use those velcro cable-ties, as well. |
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Location: GA USA | My bag has two sides to it. The smaller of them fits a couple of tab binders nicely.
If I don't need to take much I just use a small backpack. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | An old Trace Elliot padded amp head bag. Fits note book and cables, strangs and all that. |
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Location: NJ | I went to a Hamer factory tour and got a free gear bag.
been using it ever since |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hamer makes bags?? |
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Location: ms | Back pack. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Wireless systems...and a pile of batteries |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Think Hamer might throw in a gear bag with a new guitar?
I've been trying to cut down weight and bags for the past year. I leave the effects board (in an aluminum tool case described by Miles) with a few cables and the monitor amp (Phil Jones AAD) in a closet at the church. If I need it for a solo gig, I take it home. I was using the Access gig bag provided by Al with the OFC guitar, and still keep it fully stocked in the bandroom, but it can't accommodate a music book or binder. Now I use a backpack for the essentials (cables, music stand stuff, tools, strings, etc.,) plus the music. With the backpack on my back and a guitar in one hand, my other hand is free to work doors and carry a coffee mug. For solo gigs, I swap out the coffee mug for a collapsable rolling dolly and pile on a bigger amp and the effects case. |
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Location: NJ | the hamer bag was a one off carry on bag that they gave away at one of the open house tours |
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Location: Jet City | To keep cables straight I use the velcro. The main reason? It sticks to my amp!
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