Description

HEAD:
The first release from the new Bad Cat Mod Shop is here—and it carries the fingerprints of a legend.

In early 2024, Mark Sampson—co-founder of the boutique amp movement and the mind behind some of the most iconic designs in the industry—returned to Bad Cat. One of the projects he chose to revisit was the Black Cat. What followed is a brilliant revision of one of our award-winning amplifiers.

Mark had a way of seeing deeper into a circuit -- of knowing what to change, and what not to—guided by a lifetime of experimentation, invention, and obsessive pursuit of tone. The Mod Shop Black Cat 30 is one of the final chapters in that story: a handcrafted, limited-edition amplifier that blends the roots of Bad Cat with a new big, bold voice.

FEATURES:
-Designed and Built in Costa Mesa, California
-Modded by Mark Sampson
-Custom Hand-wound Bad Cat Transformers
-30 Watts
-4 – EL84 Power Tubes
-3 – 12AX7 Tubes
-2 Channels
-Independent Gain and Volume per Channel
-Shared Bass, Treble, Cut
-Studio Quality Reverb
-Bias-Modulated Tremolo
-Buffered FX Loop
-Individual Speaker Outputs (4, 8, 16, 2x4, 2x8 ohms), Line Out
-Two Button Footswitch: Channel Select and Tremolo
-Baltic Birch Cabinet
-3-year Limited Warranty
-31 lbs Head Weight
-Two Button Footswitch Included



CABINET:
This Portable Black Cat Cab is Detailed and Powerful:
The Bad Cat Black Cat 1 x 12” Cabinet is a mid-size, open back cabinet built for perfect pairing with the Black Cat Head or as an addition to the Black Cat Combo. This 1 x 12" enclosure gives a surprisingly big, full sound for its size. The Black Cat Cab comes loaded with a proprietary Celestion Bad Cat V30 speaker that sings with incredible detail and definition. Plug into the Black Cat 1 x 12” cabinet for an experience in subtlety and detail in tone.

Best Cabinet Materials and Quality:
The Bad Cat Black Cat cabinet gives you every bit of the build quality, great looks, and high performance you expect out of a Bad Cat premium cabinet. Baltic Birch wood cabinet and speaker baffle, elegant taurus tolex and gold weave grille cloth, heavy gauge speaker wire, and hand-soldered jacks and speakers. You get full tones, great bass response, and plenty of volume to pair perfectly with your Bad Cat amplifier.

Premium Speaker for Detailed Tones:
The single 12” Celestion Bad Cat speaker inside the Black Cat Cabinet is not your run of the mill loudspeaker. This undoped 60-watt, 12" Celestion speaker is perfectly voiced for all kinds of styles. From glassy clean tones to massive crunch, plug your guitar amp or amp head into the Black Cat Cabinet and you’ll experience your tone in a whole new way.

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