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How do you carry your small amp heads?

How do you carry your small amp heads?

  • In a backpack/soft bag

    Votes: 233 74.4%
  • Rack mounted

    Votes: 26 8.3%
  • Hard sided, Pelican style case

    Votes: 43 13.7%
  • Grocery bag

    Votes: 11 3.5%

  • Total voters
    313
Pelican 1610 for the stage rig RB700II and Harbor Freight knockoff for the Plex IEM set. Tough as nails.
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My Minimax just goes along for the ride in a SKB milspec waterproof box. The product comes with foam block pads you customize to the space you want to make inside. Mine is sloppy right now but the left side has cavities for tools, microphone, the head , etc. The right side is my "well" for a DI pedal, spare tuner pedal, coiled cables of all varieties. I've never failed to pack what i want in it except maybe the mic stand. Very cool accessory.
 
Rack it...!
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Will need a Tuki cover or similar like any amp head...

Nano into the MONO Tick (I've had for years), connection cables in the front pouch of a MONO M80 gig bag and the rest goes into a MONO Ultra laptop back pack I got a smokin' deal on. It all stacks nice on the 4x10" (with cover) and isolation riser, then rolls on a set of MESA casters.

It's not the most dainty, but it's worth it!
 
i just put my ampeg pf 500 in an old back pack with my cables for the gig, but i am also not particularly worried about that amp getting dinged up or scratched, it was aquired cheaply on facebook. that darkglass is a nice piece of kit though so i would try to get a padded bag. honestly the fact that some of these are too big to fit the basses gig bag does seem to defeat the purpose of the light weight cause now its still another thing to carry.