laxu
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I've had the BluGuitar Nanocab for a while now and have been pleased with it. I've wondered about the Fatcab and tried it at a store with the Amp 1 Iridium Edition but didn't quite like it then. A used one popped up recently for a good price, so after some consideration I decided to haul it home today, by tram and bus no less!
With my Amp 1 Mercury Edition's more old school voicing, it's actually a great combination. I guess what I didn't like in the store was either the Amp 1 Iridium or the placement of the cab, because it seemed much more harsh.
The Fatcab seems very balanced with the Amp 1 ME. Just leave the EQ at 5-5-5 and there's really not much need to do anything else but roll back the guitar volume and tone knob while leaving the Amp 1 gain higher to reduce the bright cap's effect.
Surprisingly the Fatcab also does well if you need to go to ridiculously low volumes. I didn't hate playing it with the Amp 1 MV set to 0.5, which is so low that you hear more of your guitar's strings than noise from the cab.
Compared to the Nanocab 1x12, the most noticeable difference is the amount of bass. As you can see from the pic the Fatcab is slightly taller, deeper and nearly twice the width. The mids sit in a different place but the high end is quite similar. With the same settings on the Amp 1, the Fatcab seems like it's a good bit louder because it's got so much more low end. I feel I can turn the Amp 1 master voume almost a notch higher with the Nanocab before it feels like it's too loud. I think that's just because there's so much less low end, I need to measure with a decibel meter and see what it says.
Both cabs have a beam running across the dustcap that will act as a beam blocker - and a mounting point for the BluGuitar logo. Each of the BluGuitar cabs has a different variant of BluGuitar's own speakers, tailored to go with the different cab format. They have at least different magnets, 42 ounces on the Fatcab, 38 on the Nanocab. Not sure if there are other differences.
I need to dig up another speaker cable and try what the Fatcab+Nanocab together sound like. You can easily hook them up because there's a series and parallel out jack on both cabs. With the Amp 1 you need to connect them in series for 16 ohm output which will reduce output level a bit but it's got tons on tap anyway so no big deal.
I'd definitely recommend either of these cabs. They are an alright price in EU (Nanocab 399€, Fatcab 499€), do a good "Greenback with a dash of V30" sound, have a healthy 60W power handling and don't weigh that much (Nanocab 10 kg, Fatcab 14.5 kg).
