RealRasputin, post: 40271, member: 275 wrote: thats a niiiiiiiice setup, i am lil bit jealous of your technics 😉 also they still look fresh to dizzle 😉
How do you guys transport your DDJ-SX?
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but i am not sure if its to heavy or big for transportation on a plane, a bag might be better but not when it comes to safety. Anybody here, who have experience with traveling by plane? I will go overseas, a 10 hour flight…
thank you!! 🙂
I go flightcases, always. I agree with Terry about it being heavy, but at the airport the have luggage carts, you check it in and then take a cab to your final destination, right?
Not like you’ll be walking 3 miles with it.
Let’s say you stick it in a bag. Airlines are getting stricter and stricter with regards to carry-on luggage (especially size). Controllers usually end up outside the accepted sizes. In which case you might end up handing it off at the gate, where it is (unceremoniously I might add) THROWN into the luggage compartment where they throw buggies and other too big carry-ons on top of it. Or it might slip off a stack to the tarmac.
Even if you are allowed to take it on board, it might not fit in the bin = previous scenario. Or if you do find a place, the next guy will forcefully jam his laptop bag or plastic airport shopping bag with two half gallon bottles of vodka on top of it (Heck if this don’t fit!). And there might be some foam protecting your buttons, but do you want to take the risk?
So for me, flightcase only. Tip there: if your controller is not fixed to the case (my MC6000 in a similar case with laptop platform is attached through it’s 19″ brackets) but just sits inside the foam, you might consider getting a right size piece of medium density foam that fits snug between your controller and the bottom of the laptop tray. It may press down slightly on the buttons, but not too much. This will hold the controller in place when it is placed upside down.
Greetinx,
C.
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