The heart and soul of the new Black Cat is the immediate feeling of connection you get with it. It’s always lively and toneful, never feeling choked or constrained. Driven by a 20W power amp featuring a cathode bias pair of EL84s, it’s remarkably loud with enough headroom to play with a live drummer, yet has an effective master volume control allowing for playing at home with no loss of tone.
Channel one offers a blooming clean tone and a sparkling, punchy, tight crunch with important shades in between. Channel two picks up right where the clean finishes, delivering an addictive crunch that soon gives way to a thick hard rock snarl—something you might not expect from this amp. The unique two-band EQ circuit and powerful cut control make finding and shaping your own sound incredibly easy. For added texture and atmosphere, the amp also includes a lush custom-tuned reverb and adjustable bias tremolo.
When it comes to handling pedals, the Black Cat performs impeccably, both at the input and in the transparent, fully buffered effects loop. You can plug in your favorite pedals from any decade with zero drama. And speaking of pedals, don’t you hate it when a new amp comes with a giant footswitch that forces you to redesign your pedalboard? So do we. That’s why the Black Cat includes a compact, all-metal two-button footswitch for channel and tremolo switching.
The amp comes with a full complement of speaker outputs, making it compatible with any cabinet combination. It also includes a line out, so you can easily connect it to an IR loader or a Wet/Dry rig. From the beginning, we knew that the Black Cat was special. It has already captured the imagination of players and magazine reviewers around the world, including the editors at Premier Guitar Magazine, who were so impressed they honored it with their Premier Gear award in March of 2023.
