Tone Cat
*This capture pack is for QUAD CORTEX. Please Follow Me in the Cortex Cloud app (TheToneShepherd) and make sure you fill out the form asking for your User Name upon checkout. Please allow 2-3 days for me to transfer your products but it’s likely it’ll be much faster!
This 2005 Bad Cat Tone Cat is a very rare amp from the glory days of Bad Cat. The Tone Cat is not just a 2 channel amplifier, it is actually two completely separate amps in one chassis! The “Clean” side is the same as the 12AX7 channel on a Black Cat (think DC30) and the “Gain” side is the dirty side of a Hot Cat, which offers complex driven and crunchy lead tones. The two sides can also be mixed together and the order can be swapped as well. There are tones galore in this amp and it will have me exploring it for a long time to come!
This particular amp has the “M.S.” inscription on the inside making it a Mark Sampson era Bad Cat. This amp absolutely sings and is sure to scratch that Bad Cat / Matchless itch. It’s “THE” sound!
*This capture pack is for QUAD CORTEX. Please Follow Me in the Cortex Cloud app (TheToneShepherd) and make sure you fill out the form asking for your User Name upon checkout. Please allow 2-3 days for me to transfer your products but it’s likely it’ll be much faster!
This 2005 Bad Cat Tone Cat is a very rare amp from the glory days of Bad Cat. The Tone Cat is not just a 2 channel amplifier, it is actually two completely separate amps in one chassis! The “Clean” side is the same as the 12AX7 channel on a Black Cat (think DC30) and the “Gain” side is the dirty side of a Hot Cat, which offers complex driven and crunchy lead tones. The two sides can also be mixed together and the order can be swapped as well. There are tones galore in this amp and it will have me exploring it for a long time to come!
This particular amp has the “M.S.” inscription on the inside making it a Mark Sampson era Bad Cat. This amp absolutely sings and is sure to scratch that Bad Cat / Matchless itch. It’s “THE” sound!
*This capture pack is for QUAD CORTEX. Please Follow Me in the Cortex Cloud app (TheToneShepherd) and make sure you fill out the form asking for your User Name upon checkout. Please allow 2-3 days for me to transfer your products but it’s likely it’ll be much faster!
This 2005 Bad Cat Tone Cat is a very rare amp from the glory days of Bad Cat. The Tone Cat is not just a 2 channel amplifier, it is actually two completely separate amps in one chassis! The “Clean” side is the same as the 12AX7 channel on a Black Cat (think DC30) and the “Gain” side is the dirty side of a Hot Cat, which offers complex driven and crunchy lead tones. The two sides can also be mixed together and the order can be swapped as well. There are tones galore in this amp and it will have me exploring it for a long time to come!
This particular amp has the “M.S.” inscription on the inside making it a Mark Sampson era Bad Cat. This amp absolutely sings and is sure to scratch that Bad Cat / Matchless itch. It’s “THE” sound!
PRESETS
VERSION 1 (V1)
The “Black Cat” / Clean side of the Tone Cat. These presets are designed to be my go-to all around presets for a variety of guitars but sound particularly good with humbuckers. These presets are dialed in a touch brighter than my AC30, Clubman and Prosonic.
· TS TCAT V1 D AC - 2
· TS TCAT V1 D AC - 3
· TS TCAT V1 D AC - 4
· TS TCAT V1 D BC - 2
· TS TCAT V1 D BC - 3
· TS TCAT V1 D BC - 4
· TS TCAT V1 S AC - 2
· TS TCAT V1 S AC - 3
· TS TCAT V1 S AC - 4
· TS TCAT V1 S BC - 2
· TS TCAT V1 S BC - 3
· TS TCAT V1 S BC - 4
*For ToneX, I included “1” presets as well, which simply clean up the base “2” captures. I can’t do this for you with Quad Cortex but you can easily do it on your own. Simply take the “2” capture and lower the Gain to taste. You may find, however, that these “2” captures pair well as-is with the special TCAT pairings found in my other amp preset packs. See Recommended Pairings below
PRESET NAMING
CHARACTER
V1 Tonally based around humbuckers
GAIN STAGES
2 Edge of Breakup
3 Crunch
4 Overdriven
MICROPHONES
S Single Mic – Shure 545SD
D Dual Mics – Shure 545SD + Audio Technica AT4081
SPEAKER/CAB
AC VOX AC30 2X12 Cabinet with Celestion G12M Greenback Speaker
BC Bad Cat 1X12 Extension Cab with Bad Cat Modified V30 Speaker
RECOMMENDED PAIRINGS
If you run two amp captures in stereo and also own my AC30, Prosonic or Match Club captures, I made custom presets for each amp to pair with the Tone Cat.
· TS AC30 V1 - 1 - G12M - TCAT
· TS PROSON V1 - 1 - G10V - TCAT
· TS MCLUB 2 - G12M - TCAT
