Options for Portable Equipment Storage

We have a Behringer Xenyx 2442FX mixer and eight Shure SLX4 wireless microphone receivers that are all housed in a monstrously heavy plywood box. The Shures are mounted in two columns of four, using 19-inch rack-mount ears. The Behringer sits above them, also attached with rack-mount ears. In the rest of the cavity are the power strips and wall warts for the receivers, the power cord for the mixer, the eight XLR3 cords that connect the Shures to the mixer, and the sixteen stubby antennas for the Shures.

It weighs a flippin' ton because of all that plywood, and we are all sick of needing two people to lug it around when we move it. Worse, the fabricator only put two hinged handles on it, and they are just below the center of gravity, so you can only use one hand on each side to lift it and, when you do, it wants to flip over.

There has to be a better option or options.

I'm open to anything, including using two cabinets instead of one. What's a good source of lightweight, durable cabinets for a community theater company with modest funds?

If it has to be portable, check this link out:

https://www.sweetwater.com/c459--Portable_Rack_Cases

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GRC10x8

Do you need to have the mixer racked up do you have a booth with a counter you can drop that onto?

I suspect the mixer and the plywood are where you get most of your weight. I've found the the SKB Roto-Rolling racks to be cost-effective, durable, and convenient. Those SLX4's weigh next to nothing, so if you get them into their own rack with a couple antenna DA's and maybe a drawer for batteries and transmitters, I believe you'll find it's a much lighter weight rack than your current plywood assembly.

The simple Gator Cases models are very common and not bad, but they always felt pretty chintzy to me and I hate how their rack lids attach. An appropriate and probably most cost-effective choice if the rack doesn't really need to be portable. Not my favorite for moving them regularly though.

+10 for the SKB Roto's, though the width of your mixer might or might not be compatible; they expect a 19" rackmount mixer on top as well.

Well, the DJ models do.

If the weight is the primary concern (being 62, it is for me), I would actually split up the receives and the mixer into two gator cases. It's only 8 connectors.
I actually have a system with 8 Sennheiser receivers and a Behringer mixer myself, and have it split into three. Two cases with 4 receivers in each, and the mixer in the third case. I do a lot of shows with a choral group and I'm always throwing the three in the back seat of my car. Usually just DI into a house sound system, but two JBLs with stands, along with another gator case that has a QSC amp in it get tossed into the trunk when needed. Never regretted breaking it up that way. Covers about 75% of what the group does. If I need more, then I get the truck out

I would agree with JD break the set up. Keep a short 8ch snake in with the receivers, or under the mixer.
Get a shallow rack for the receivers, with added Uspace for necessary storage under receivers. Plus a rack mount power strip.
http://www.audiopile.net/R6UE-10

Shallow rack will give easy access for plugging /patching. You may be able to move the rails back a bit so the antennas can remain plugged and just rotate up for operation, once the rear cover is removed.
Keep all the radio gear in one case.


https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GM4WR
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