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Bag for amp and pedals

dirtychinchilla

dirtychinchilla

Dec 23, 2007
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London, UK
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Afternoon,

I'm an engineer. I like everything to have its place and fit perfectly. I tend to keep thinking about things until I've worked out the perfect solution.

I'm trying to work out how to carry my amp and pedalboard in one. I hate doing multiple trips to the car. I'd like to do one, but more realistically, I want to bring it down to two: 1 - cab, 2 - bass, amp, and pedalboard.

I have a Darkglass Microtubes 500 V2 which I need to protect. I am also buying a bigger pedalboard to accomodate a Helix Stomp and a Hotone Ampero Control. Because of the size of both of these, the pedalboard will end up being quite deep. I'd like to get both the amp and a pedalboard into one carry-thing (preferably a bag to save hands).

The pedalboard I'm thinking of buying is a Pedaltrain Metro.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I bought a Gatorcase bag thing and some foam to cut out around the kit, but it turns out it's too small for all this stuff.

Thanks in advance!

dirtychinchilla
 
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Passinwind said:
The folks at Studio Slips are really great people to run things like this by. They did an amazing job on the clamshell bag for one of my DIY amps.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I'm in the UK, so whilst they look great, I can't see myself paying the shipping on those! They're really sexy though.

What sort of price did you pay for your custom clamshell?

HelpImaRock said:
I have a 12x12 Gator mixer bag that fits a Markbass head and Pedaltrain Nano, plus cables. You might try one of their larger offerings to fit your amp and pedals.
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This is basically what I bought, although I think I got a slightly larger version. I think I might have to trade it in for an even larger one.

ThudThudThud said:
- Cherokee Supply
Something of this kidney?
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That makes a lot of sense, not very sexy though :(
 
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dirtychinchilla said:
Thank you for the suggestion. I'm in the UK, so whilst they look great, I can't see myself paying the shipping on those! They're really sexy though.

What sort of price did you pay for your custom clamshell?
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Oops, usually I catch a non-US location. ;)

The amp is only around the size of a Mesa Subway, etc. IIRC it was right around $100 USD and took 3 weeks or so for order fulfillment. It's held up quite well even without the optional leather reinforcement patches they offer.


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A sister amp lives in a $30-ish Mackie mixer bag that works fine and then I have a Pelican case for this one that I bought for a NAMM trip where others would be transporting it for me in a typical scary band van pack.
 
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Passinwind said:
Oops, usually I catch a non-US location. ;)

The amp is only around the size of a Mesa Subway, etc. IIRC it was right around $100 USD and took 3 weeks or so for order fulfillment. It's held up quite well even without the optional leather reinforcement patches they offer.


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A sister amp lives in a $30-ish Mackie mixer bag that works fine and then I have a Pelican case for this one that I bought for a NAMM trip where others would be transporting it for me in a typical scary band van pack.
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That's very nice, I'm quite jealous. I think I might just need a bigger mixer bag to be honest.
 
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