My bad, there is a reason why I am not a carpenter. I cannot read a measuring tape. I stated with depth or width of the chassis was 9 6/8 inches. Not. it is more like 9 3/8 inches. I was counting 1/16 inch lines and thought they were 1/8s.
If I were to gig, I probably would not be playing guitar. I play drums too. If guitar, yes I would use that rig but would really hate to haul it around. I would condense it down to just the two Badlanders for a gig. The main sound are the 2 Badlanders. I am using a Strymon BigSky in a hall effect (a modified patch of the Carney hall) to create the feel of being at a huge venue with the 2BAD. What ends up in the middle is the filler to blend with the stereo effect. I can turn off the center by using the clean channel dialed out completely on the RA or if I opt to run a MWDR for instance, I can use its mute function. Working on getting another Mesa Switch Track but they are on backorder and not sure if they will start building them any time soon.
As for channel surfing, I barely ever do it. The Dynamics of the RA and Badlander are just great, you can literally dial in an aggressive tone and roll back on the guitar volume to clean it up. Also you can play and get some bite and grind and change pick attack for a softer cleaner sound.
The Hi gain channel has similar amount of compression as the Badlander Crush voice. Similar character to a Mark in some respects. Lo gain and crunch are similar but different too. I found my heaven but maybe thinking of pulling in the JP2C if I end up getting a Mark VII.