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One thing I can recommend that might seem a bit silly at first is the following: When I went from North Carolina to Seattle to play a show at a friend's anniversary party, I took a lot of equipment, and had nowhere near the kind of money one needs for flight cases. I already had a pretty sturdy case from an old Korg I bought years back, and it already had foam in it, so I used this one to store my more delicate instruments. For the more hardy stuff, like my Mackie CFX-12 (they accurately call it throw proof, btw), I went to a thrift store and bought a huge hard plastic locking case for $5. I then went to Big Lots and bought a crappy chair made of foam. I cut the chair up into foam strips and packed the Mackie in firmly, then filled the blank space with cables and other relatively unbreakable items. For my effects units, these were wrapped in my clothes packed in my regular suitcase, which also had some foam in it. The final step was spray painting the mixer case in horrible colors so no one would ever want to steal it. The only damage was a bit of the metal edge that bent on the crappy case, but hey it was only 5 bucks. With some of the money I saved on buying a case I bought hasps and locks, and added these to both cases so I could feel safer about letting strangers handle them. A bit of extra work certainly, and maybe kind of a backwoods way to do it, but it worked! So in short: Buying and adapting a lot of disposable crap can end up getting the job done for a lot less money. Hopefully that helps somebody out. Jon www.mp3.com/skincage