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Introduction
Congratulations and thank you for purchasing a tube amplifier from Bad Cat.
As with all Bad Cat products, your amplifier is designed from the ground up to
provide the very best tones possible in a rugged, reliable package. Each one
of our models is constructed with Bad Cat's commitment to making the
highest quality amps, designed and built in Costa Mesa, California. Our users
benefit from our passion every time they plug in and crank up their favorite
Bad Cat amp. Since we also play what we build, it is truly gratifying for the Bad
Cat Team to be a part of bringing each amp to life and welcome you to the
Bad Cat den.
Features
The award-winning Hot Cat was introduced in 2005 with great accolades. It
was the first commercially available, high-gain cathode biased amplifier. As
the years went on, subtle refinements were made, and the awards kept
coming. As pleased as we are with the original, the time has come for a whole
new Hot Cat. We took everything we have learned over the last 20 years and
applied it to this cutting edge reimagining of the Hot Cat.
Channel 1 features the signature Bad Cat sparkling clean tone with brilliant
highs and abundant lows. Channel 2 is a flame throwing high-gain channel
with extraordinary string-to-string note definition and loads of harmonic
content. We added a Lo/Hi selectable gain switch allowing the Channel 1 to
offer huge amounts of clean headroom or drive into 70's-like crunch tones
and everything between. In Channel 2, you now have the ability to toggle
between two distinct flavors of gain from crunchy blues to metal. The gain
combinations on the new Hot Cat are virtually limitless.
Also new to the Hot Cat is studio quality reverb custom-tuned to work
flawlessly with each channel. Additionally, we have added a completely
transparent, buffered effects loop that will work with both digital rack effects
and analog effects. The new two button footswitch allows toggling between
channels and the Lo/Hi gain mode settings, offering four distinct tones all from
one footswitch.
We are excited and proud to introduce the new Hot Cat, one of the most
versatile amps we've ever made.
Thank you,
The Bad Cat Team
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