live setup

As the title suggests, what lengths have you gone to to minimize and ease your live gigging setup? So, things like: getting light weight equipment, organizing and storing cables and accessories, methods for carrying things easier, maybe even buying a vehicle that is easier to load stuff into...

Trying to figure out what amp and cab will work best for me. Some insights: I play "smooth jazz" gigs, background music at events. Typically consisting of bass, drums, keys and tenor sax. Pop covers for parties, add guitar and vocalist^ Rock/blues gigs at small to medium venues I'm playing...

I used one about two weeks ago on a recording session with my upright and 64-P-bass and was so blown away I bought the company. ... No I didn't, I bought one U5 and I'm still blown away. ... Curious if anyone out there is gigging with theirs. ... I'm more into notch filtering than bass, treble...