Good Brand For Rack Bag/Case?

What are you putting in the racks? If you like the stuff alot maybe you should get a case. Maybe you could go both potable and protection and get one of those skb roling cases. Look here:Click me

 

If you're happy with just carrying around a single head, a rack bag makes sense to me.....for instance, people who just use an Eden Traveler or something like that.

But if you're getting into separate pre and power amps, it's not going to end there, I don't think. You'll want some kind of power conditioner and most likely either a compression/limiter unit or an equalizer, or both.

The separate rack bags mean you have to re-connect all the doggone cables every time you set up. With a rack, that allows enough space, you can keep everything hooked up and just throw the cables into an empty space. Set-up is so much easier......more time to set levels/have a soundcheck/set up pedals. For me, I just click on my power conditioner and everything powers up. Either way, with several rack bags or one rack, it's one trip to load-in, IME.

BTW - I'm not crazy about SKB's so I got a rock-solid CNB that looks absolutely pimpy under the light cans and costs the same as the black SKB's -

 

Light? Durable? Cheap? Sounds like you need an Odyssey rack bag.

I think it was jokerny that originally turned me onto these. I bought a 3 space bag for my head and it's great. It has a carpet covered hard inner shell that is removable and looks really nice by itself. So, you can remove that hard inner shell from the bag for the gig and it looks good sitting there on your cab or whatever. Then you just slide the bag back over it, zip it up and go. It's been great and it has a big zipper pocket on front that can hold lots of cords and whatnot. You can get it in more than 3 space but bags get kinda bulky to carry past 3 or 4 space. Here's a link for the 3 spacer:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7...6215714990/g=home/search/detail/base_id/55224

brad cook

 

rickbass--where can i get more information about the cnb cases? do they make shockmount cases?

 

Try here for starters, thet. At the time I bought mine, Rondo was the only place in the US, online, I could find handling them - http://www.rondomusic.bigstep.com/category.html?UCIDs=875804 (scroll down past the black poly rack cases). Maybe you'll find more online stores handle them now if you do a search.

They don't come with shockmounts. But, FWIW, I used the Humfrees from Musician's Fiend instead -$2 for something like 8 of them.

 

yeah...i'm looking for a shockmount case for my mesa 400+. just because it's going to be sitting on top of my cabinet, and going in and out of our van, so i want to have a case that it will be safe in.

 

I have two skb x-racks (10 to 10 3/4" deep) and they protected my head from damage when I got home from vacation last year I accidentally left the rack standing on the driveway, behind my car, for several hours while I took a nap to recover from the drive home. then I had to leave for work or church or something. got in my car started backing up and heard this horrible scrapping sound from underneath the car. I had to jack up my car to get the rackout!!! Rack was scratched, feet where worn off, but HEAD WAS FINE!!! Thanks SKB!!!

 

I have 3 of the ProTec bags. A 3 space for the WT-800/Korg DTR-1, a 4 space for the Fafner/DTR-1 and a 6 space for the Navigator/PLX2402/Furman/Korg/DTR-1.

The 6 space bag is really pushing it for the equipment that is in there but that rig has never made it out of the house anyway. I usually use my Demeter 201/PLX1602 which is in a Grundorf box. I would never trust the handle on the 6 space bag to accomodate that much eqipment. But I've been real pleased with the ProTec's anyhow. I think that the bags work the best for a single head with maybe a rack tuner.

But listen to Rick. He's the real deal pro here. He's traveling all over the midwest with some very nice gear, so he knows a thing or two. He's raved to me about his case. It's been to enough gigs where he would know if it was worthy.

I haven't ever seen the Odyssey units but I have an Odyssey rack case for my mixer that it really super. Very nice stuff.

 

I think the CNB is less $ than even the cheapo SKB Xracks. My singer has a silver one and I've got a plastic one. They are both solid cases.