It is true that a genuine flight guitar case is sometimes overkill for most guitar players needs. But even if you are not much of a touring musician, they may still do you some good – for safe storage and organization.
If you own a lot of guitars, or even just a few – but valuable ones – you could do worse than storing them in flight cases. Why? Anything truly valuable deserves to have the best protection, so instead of stowing your much loved guitars away in gig bags or rickety old hard cases, put them in a good quality guitar flight case strong enough to take being driven over by a car, and that has a built in hygrometer. That way you will know the exact humidity inside the closed case, and can take action before your instrument is damaged by moisture.
Good flight cases also have enough space for various compartments – lots of room for extra strings, picks, cables and a tuner. Don’t know about you, but things I don’t use regularly tend to become buried under a lot of other things, and yes – that might even accidentally happen to a valuable guitar! With your guitars in flight cases, you can put whatever you want on top of them – no harm done!
What about your other gear? Amps, effects and such? Yes, those too can benefit from some place safe to live. With rack gear it goes without saying: Put it in a rack! But why not give your head or combo amp a nice flight case too? There are several advantages to doing so:
- Protect the controls and finish of your expensive amp – and everything inside it too. Put some dense foam in the bottom of the case for extra shock absorption – hot tubes hate getting bumped around.
- Make room in the case for multi effectss units, a rack tray with your favorite pedals, and plug everything into a singlepower strip.. That way you only need one wall outlet at your gigs.
- Good for storage. I’ve heard stories about entire families of mice living in amps that hadn’t been used for a long time! Well, they won’t be getting through a good flight case, that is for sure.
You could even make your home audio recording studio portable – just plop it all into a solid rack case and take it to gigs for live recordings.
Yep, there are plenty of good uses for flight cases – even if you don’t tour the world!
This was a guest post by Christian Coriolis – for Internet Business – And Life Too