Bad Cat
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Re: Bad Cat
I've the handwired 30 watt iteration in a head ( non reverb ). Any interest ?
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Re: Bad Cat
Thanks, but I think 15w and reverb are what I'm after. And swinging back towards a combo as well.
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Re: Bad Cat
Shall I take that as a yes?!
I was hoping someone who has played one might give some insight.
But a "yes" is a good response.
I was hoping someone who has played one might give some insight.
But a "yes" is a good response.
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Re: Bad Cat
Yes! we need to know more about them.
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Re: Bad Cat
This is an amp I would like to own one day (at 60% of retail or less), so yes, absolutely, you should buy it straight away. Good price too!
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Re: Bad Cat
That's exactly what I was thinking. The Dr Z is excellent but stays clean pretty much all the way, whereas this should give a bit of dirt when required.StratMatt wrote:This would be similar to the London Pro I would imagine; same preamp tubes for each channel. Combo and reverb too, gotta be a winner.
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We're hoping you can be that helpful guy in future.Conway wrote:
I was hoping someone who has played one might give some insight.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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Re: Bad Cat
I wouldn't compare these to the other builders Vox derivatives. Much more going on under the hood. Sure you can nudge it into that familiar sonic territory but you can also get some cool, fat, smooth lead tones out of it and a whole range of tones in between. Responds differently with different speakers.
Out of all the different amps I've owned over the years this one took me the longest to get familiar with. Thanks to the active eq circuitry you can't eq it with your eyes ( if you're used to the usual subtractive tone circuits which most of us are ) , plus the controls are very interactive, again more so than I'm familiar with and I had an Hc30 head for ten years. The only thing I can criticise is the fx loop, the use of which seems to detract from the amps tone. Badcat tell me it can easily be cured using a buffer but I've been without a delay for a while so haven't tried it.
Hope this is useful, there are no decent clips out there but it's nevertheless a rocking piece of kit.
Out of all the different amps I've owned over the years this one took me the longest to get familiar with. Thanks to the active eq circuitry you can't eq it with your eyes ( if you're used to the usual subtractive tone circuits which most of us are ) , plus the controls are very interactive, again more so than I'm familiar with and I had an Hc30 head for ten years. The only thing I can criticise is the fx loop, the use of which seems to detract from the amps tone. Badcat tell me it can easily be cured using a buffer but I've been without a delay for a while so haven't tried it.
Hope this is useful, there are no decent clips out there but it's nevertheless a rocking piece of kit.
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Re: Bad Cat
Just returning the favour.Conway wrote:You guys are such enablers!
Steve's BC is worth a look. PTP an all that.