Gator bags are right up there in quality, I was surprised this bag was not more expensive. The bag has two totaly separate compartments and each one has a very heavy duty zip. Each zip has two pulls which can be useful depending on what you are loading in it. It's a large bag and will easily swallow up a pair of speaker stands but if you want to get some lighting stands in it you may need to remove the poles to get them to fit, you then store the pole next to the stand. I have managed to fit two lighting stands without the pole, two T bars and two speaker stands in this bag, in this case the lighting poles had to be stored outside the bag but not bad. When you have items in it that are small you can fold the end of the bag over and it fits between the carrying handles. This is a great bag and Im glad I bought it, backed up by excellent Thomann Warranty and customer service.