Got this idea from another thread called "Bass amps now non essential?" and did a search first but I've found nothing on it so I thought I start a similar thread on something that has - slightly - become obsolete.
Now, (means these days) when buying any new mid-end or high end bass it always comes with a "hard case". You know this squared vinyl/tolex things, that you have to carry with one handle and not being able to use both hands, say, like a gig bag that's formed like a huge backback. My opinion is, that if you REALLY need the protection of a hard case, you should go with a proper FLIGHT CASE in all instances. OR a properly made gigbag like MONO and the like if you want everyday soft protection agains scratches, rain, or anything else. The "in between" hard cases seems to make no sense anymore. Or at least, less and less If you have to protect it in that hard case, it is to be protected against such things that a flight case will do so much better. And to protect it enough from everyday rehearsal and transporting to a gig, a soft case performs so much better anyway. I e if you handle your bass with case/gig bag so hard that the actual bass will take some serious damage from any kind of hit or drop, chances are that it would do so just as well as with a hard case. And if you have to STOW something upon your bass residing in the case, I doubt a "regular" hard case will keep it up. Then the only thing would be flight cases.
1. Soft gig bag
2. Hard case
3. Flight case
Also, I find soft gig bags more malleable and forming after different shapes of basses and the amount of things than can be stowed into side pockets. Anything in there doesn't rattle around as much as in regular hard cases. And so on and on. Hard cases are very often just tailored to the one and only bass you've got.
By this, I mean "regular" hard case:
By this I mean a well made soft gig bag:
And, of course, by this I mean a flight case:
What's your opinion on this one?
Now, (means these days) when buying any new mid-end or high end bass it always comes with a "hard case". You know this squared vinyl/tolex things, that you have to carry with one handle and not being able to use both hands, say, like a gig bag that's formed like a huge backback. My opinion is, that if you REALLY need the protection of a hard case, you should go with a proper FLIGHT CASE in all instances. OR a properly made gigbag like MONO and the like if you want everyday soft protection agains scratches, rain, or anything else. The "in between" hard cases seems to make no sense anymore. Or at least, less and less If you have to protect it in that hard case, it is to be protected against such things that a flight case will do so much better. And to protect it enough from everyday rehearsal and transporting to a gig, a soft case performs so much better anyway. I e if you handle your bass with case/gig bag so hard that the actual bass will take some serious damage from any kind of hit or drop, chances are that it would do so just as well as with a hard case. And if you have to STOW something upon your bass residing in the case, I doubt a "regular" hard case will keep it up. Then the only thing would be flight cases.
1. Soft gig bag
2. Hard case
3. Flight case
Also, I find soft gig bags more malleable and forming after different shapes of basses and the amount of things than can be stowed into side pockets. Anything in there doesn't rattle around as much as in regular hard cases. And so on and on. Hard cases are very often just tailored to the one and only bass you've got.
By this, I mean "regular" hard case:
By this I mean a well made soft gig bag:
And, of course, by this I mean a flight case:
What's your opinion on this one?
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