Shopping for Gear Cases By Dimensions?.. Custom Built Solutions?
So I have some custom gear I’ve made and I’d like to get a better travel solution for it…
Basically its a giant hacked together android tablet, uses an Acer Touch Screen Monitor which is a little fragile.
I dug around guitar centers website a bit, but they aren’t super reliable when it comes to providing dimensions and somtimes don’t tell you whether its the inside or outside.
Anyone have insight on this?.. I am even open to hiring it out but I don’t want to spend more than maybe $120/200… The units only run me about $550 to build so its a bit silly to pay much more, thanks.
you will notice they do custom work…not sure of pricing. if you email them and tell them what youre hoping to box up , they could probably point you the right direction, as far as existing cases or tailor made.
So I dug around the site some more, found their search by size function… Buried and clunky but better than nothing. Sweetwater.com has a nice checkbox filter system but no stock to match my needs either :-/
Looks like most of their stuff is going to be too deep (their cases tend to be deeper than 9 inches)… and the best fit for one of these units would cost ~$300 which could practically buy me a third screen (could actually replace the monitor if i break it for that price)…
Back to the drawing board here, I have to imagine their custom solutions are similarly expensive.
Dimensions I am trying to fit are 23" long by 14.5" wide by 3.5" tall
The software is an App called Lemur, it is like Touch OSC on steroids, you get to layout and program your own touch screen midi interfaces.
Here a discussion and video of running two of them with a mixer:
Welcome to the world of good sturdy flight cases.
They cost a lot of money and prices have little baring on what goes in the cases.
A custom made flight case is worth the expense - especially when (when not if) you drop something.
It also gives you piece of mind when stuff is in transit.
Well, I would totally shell out if I was actually flying with these and putting my faith in TSA, guess I’m looking for more of a road case sort of deal for now…
Anyway, long story short, I basically had to play ‘find the lego’ while shopping for this. Dug through about 4 diffrent websites with varying degrees of filtering mechanisms. I think I finally found a case that will fit them (going to check it out in store at Guitar Center)… Annoying that no one actually lists the internal dimensions (even the mfg) of this brand of cases but luckily another customer mentioned it in the comments.
I’m actually thinking about buying some old suit cases at a garage sale, gutting the innards, and lining them with memory foam to hold my controllers. You can do three layers of the stuff. One for each lid and the middle layer cut out for your equipment. Bingo bango custom flight cases.
Yeah home built is an option; if I had more regular access to a wood shop I’d pursue this more aggressively but I am still holding out on something easy and professional looking…
I didn’t realize those were so dirt cheap. I’ve been racking my brain for other types of non music equipment that would fit the bill, unfortunately, rifles (long guns) are a bit long for these units.
i guess I should have been more clear; I am hoping to have a separate case for each of them, and also be able to leave them in the cases while I use them (ie, removable lid… which seems mostly unique to music gear).
The trouble is, those acer monitors have a pane of glass that runs right out to the edge of the unit with nothing protecting it… one of them got side swiped by a beer bottle (or something) and I had to fill the chip with epoxy… So I am basically looking for something that will help with light travel and the booth environment.
This certainly hasn’t been a painless process. I stopped into guitar center to check out a roadrunner case that seemed to be a good fit, but the dimensions provided were for the exterior, not the interior (lucky they had one in stock on location for me to check out)
I’ve just ordered a pair of these; hopefully Odyssey knows how to use a ruler and their specs are as advertised… if so I should be able to cut/rearrange the foam to get a nice snug fit, otherwise I’m stuck with the amazon returns runaround and more digging through the Lego bins of the internet:
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I was thinking gun cases in general might work as there is also some dual pistol cases that might have worked, but hey at least the oddesey ones will protect them properly and already have the lift off lids
