Mod Shop: Black Cat 30 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.

• 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
• 20.75” Width x 10.375” Depth x 10” Height (Head Dimensions)
• 31 lbs Head Weight
• Two Button Footswitch Included