Recommend me a VERY good gig bag please..

[TomB]

Reunion Blues - the last gig bag you'll buy.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Absolutely the best protection in any gig bag I've used, Reunion Blues Continental. It's like cradling your bass between two dense memory foam pillows. If it falls over, who cares. They show a demo throwing a guitar off a 2/3 story building and pulling it out with zero damage. I believe it. When I fly, I check my bass with no worries - as long as there are no connecting flights, using this case.

http://reunionblues.com/product/175/RBB4BK

 

[mlove]

Another vote for mono. I have a vertigo and tick. I'm happy with them. Sometimes I wish I would have gotten the m80 bag instead of the vertigo. The storage looks a little better thought out on the m80 but the head lock and boot on the vertigo are nice. Regardless it is a well built bag. I have not used a hard case sense I got my vertigo.

 

[Dan Knowlton]

I have a Levy's CPLL19 that my wife bought me. 15 years of use and it still looks almost new - really tough leather, great padding and decent pockets. This one has almost a box construction.

I also have a LSM19 that fits around my basses a little tighter.

Dan K.

 

[CJL]

I'm a big fan of the Warwick Rock Bags. I carry 2 to every gig and have had them for years...no issues.

 

[HolmeBass]

Using a Mono double bag now and it is excellent. For over 15 years prior I had a Levy's double bag and it was very good too. The Levy was less protection, but lighter and a bit more sumptuous with the leather and fur interior. The Mono is more like survival gear - I did cut myself on the edge of one of the nylon straps at its attachment point. But it cradles the basses quite nicely.

 

[macrocheesium]

I recently got an SKB "soft case" for my acoustic guitar and will be getting more for my other instruments because I like it so much. They carry like a firmer and slightly heavier gig bag, but they're much sturdier on the inside with fitted foam.

http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=&id=527&o=&offset=&c=84&s=75

 

[Jughead6]

Buy yourself a $3000 Sandberg bass and it'll come in a gig bag. Most other custom bass makers would give you a hard case. But to be fair to Sandberg, they do give you an awesome gig bag.

 

[iandmcelroy]

Here's why I don't like the Mono bag:

- The string pocket is meant for guitar strings only. You can't put a a set of bass strings in the pocket of the bass bag without taking them out of the pack and cramming them in there -- that seems like a pretty big oversight for a bass bag.

- There isn't much room in the pockets for anything. I can fit two ten foot cables, a set of strings, and my strap in there... and that that's about it before I can't zip up the pocket. There really isn't any room for charts, heads, pedals, etc. I can fit a couple of pens in the top pocket, but the business card part doesn't really hold business cards without crumpling them.

- "No room for pedals? Buy the Tick!!" I did. I can hold my pedals, the power supply, and I put my strings underneath the pedalboard so the don't get wrecked from the small front pocket. That's about it.

- The Tick adds weight to the bag, but an oversight in the way the shoulder straps attach to the bottom of the bag makes it so that if you pick up the bag to quick with the tick on there the shoulder straps detach from the bag and you could drop your bass. I haven't dropped my bass, but the straps come off of the bag all of the time when I grab it too quickly.

- Repeatedly taking your bass in and out of the bag makes the "protective skid pad" separate from the padding.

The longer I own my Mono the more I wish I bought the iGig bag. I play a lot of gigs and carry my bass around a lot, and the mono just doesn't hold up over time. It's a great bag for light use, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who plays more than once a week. For comparison I had a Levy's bag that held up much better than the Mono over twice as many years. I didn't like the Levy, and the Mono is better, but there are better bags out there for the same money.

 

[AciDBatH666]

i am using a Fusion urban gigbag and i'm very happy with it...
http://www.fusion-bags.com/collections/guitar-gig-bags/products/urban-bass-guitar-gig-bag

This actually looks pretty interesting. I like the bags that attach to it. Little costly, but when you consider what you're spending on a mono, it'd negligible.
My only worry is the weight of the bags pulling on where it attaches. I had an ibanez bag with a back pack that strapped to the bag but one of the spots tore off over time. I'm sure this is better built, but I'd still be cautious just from experience

 

[tedsalt]

I have an iGig single that works wonders, plenty of pockets. I also have an Undercover double bass gig bag that I bought off of CL that works fine.

 

[Joeplanet]

I love my Mono.

http://newtrality.com/blog/2011/12/26/stylish-guitar-case.html?rq=Mono

 

[lowfreqgeek]

Mono M80 Dual. Worth every penny if you haul more than one bass regularly.

 

[rmayer]

Reunion Blues, without a doubt. I have both their cordura and leather bags, and they are great. I prefer the fitted case with the gusset sides. Personally I'm not crazy about stuffing a micro amp into the pocket of my gig bag so it can bang against the bass. I'll throw in a few cables, a strap, some music, but that's it. Amps travel by themselves, and I'll have another bag for tuners, compressor, speaker cables, etc.

 

[pudgychef]

These are nice:
http://www.probag-net.com/

 

[Robroy]

I purchased a Mono Vertigo while doing a little, um, intoxicated classifieds browsing. The next morning I was like OH MY GOD I can't believe I spent that much on a gig bag. After I used it for a couple of days I was like OH MY GOD I can't believe I don't regret it at all.

Maybe I need to down a few shots of Jameson - neat - and order one of those.

 

[Nephilymbass]

I've been using the gig bags that came with my warwicks for years now. I started using them as an excuse to keep the bass in the van instead of out in the elements in the band trailor on road trips and after a while i didn't miss hard cases at all. There's so many benefits to using gigbag a over hard cases and really the only thing i think a hard case has going for it is additional protection. But a lot of times its a false sense of security imo. I can't tell you how many times I've played shows and watched other bands just toss around basses or guitars in hard cases carelessly, no one does that with gig bags. And as long as you take care of your bass and treat like your baby and use some common sense you'll never have an issue using a gigbag

 

[aetheldrea]

I found the Reunion Blues Continental to be about the same weight as a hard case, but thicker. Love the Mono Vertigo.

 

[Jim Carr]

that dual electric bass one looks sweet.... I always like to bring two or more so that's even less hassle.

Hi SamJ—glad to see you back on TB! About the Mono dual, I have had one for over three years. I have to say there are problems that may not be obvious to the occasional user. For air travel, it is a problem.

1. Two basses plus cables, strings, small tools, tuner, a pedal, batteries, straps = one heavy load, even on your shoulders.
I have schlepped mine from San Francisco to Kentucky, Texas to Hawaii, and New York to Chicago many times (on various airlines), and besides the issues of getting the flight attendants to accept it in the coat closet, it is really a lot to carry along with a roll-aboard, even if the suitcase gets checked. It is one heck of a handful to carry with the suitcase-style handle.

2. It is big.
Besides the carry on problems (I have to gate check it 50% of the time), fitting it in a subcompact usually means putting it in the back seat leaning at an angle, as it is too long and thick to lay down. Forget getting it in ANY vehicle's trunk. It sits very high on ones body, even with the straps loose. This makes for instability on slippery or uneven surfaces, and requires one beware of overhead clearance at all times.

3. It is not all that durable.
While it does offer good protection to the instruments inside, in the course of three years, I lost ALL zipper pulls, the Mono logo, and found the many long zippers getting quite balky and easy to jam. It is simply wearing out, and looks rather beat.

4. Not cheap.
I think my wife paid something like $280 3 or 4 years ago (it was a birthday gift). They are now about $330.

 

[Sam Dingle]

Love my mono more every day.