Old blanket or towels should keep your black hardware fairly scratch-less.
I use 3 bags for chrome hardware( one bag would be too heavy), hhat stand and 2 leg -folded cymbal stands with booms removed. Other bag has the small but still heavy stuff: throne, tom mounts, snare stand, FT legs, clamps and cowbell. Smaller bag has pedal, tools, Gatorade and sticks. Sometimes I pack a hand cart but any threat of more than one step up into the venue and I'd leave it behind, so it hardly ever gets used.
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