Bad Cat Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 Combo Amp 1x12 Inch 50 Watts
Bad Cat Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 is a reborn 50W tube amp with expanded mids, four voices, shimmering cleans, British crunch, and refined high gain with rich bloom and punch.
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When inspiration hits, you need an amp that can keep up with you. The Bad Cat Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 has been redesigned, re-voiced, and reimagined to deliver unmatched power and versatility. With 50 watts of dynamic, punchy power, this amp is bigger, bolder, and more adaptable than ever before. Strike a chord and experience its enhanced openness, richer harmonic depth, powerful punch, and smooth, responsive controls.
Four Voices. One Fearless Identity.
Bad Cat cracked open the midrange, expanded the tone stack, and rebuilt the presence circuit with the musicality it always deserved. The clean channel now shimmers, breathes, and blooms like never before — and in High mode, it transforms into that unmistakable cranked-AC / pushed-JTM voice players have chased for decades. Flip to the drive channel and the Hot Cat 50 becomes something else entirely: a fire-breathing, high-gain preamp with the clarity and note separation only Bad Cat can deliver.
Clean Low: Big, glassy American clean that sparkles with pristine detail and wide-open headroom.
Clean High: Cranked AC / JTM-style breakup with bite, chime, and that sweet spot where tubes come alive.
Gain Low: British rock crunch with unmatched touch sensitivity and classic 80's era authority.
Gain High: Refined high-gain authority with Bad Cat's signature note separation for soaring leads and thick rhythms.
More Power. More Impact. More Heart.
Everything on the Hot Cat 50 is designed to give you the best of what Bad Cat has become known for — and the Mod Shop edition makes the best even better! With custom-wound transformers, studio-quality onboard effects, and even a line out, this is an amp so good, it’s “bad.”
Custom Wound Bad Cat Transformers: Engineered in-house for maximum tonal response, clarity, and dynamic punch.
Studio Quality Reverb: Lush, room-filling ambience that enhances every note without drowning your tone.
Made for Players Who Need Range
The live pro who jumps from clean ambience to soaring leads. The studio guitarist chasing American cleans, British chime, and tight high-gain in one session — without swapping amps. The modeler player who's ready to level up. The Hot Cat 50 is powerful enough for any venue, controlled enough for any room, and expressive enough for any genre.
Buffered FX Loop: Seamlessly integrate your pedalboard without tone loss or signal degradation.
Individual Speaker Outputs: 4, 8, and 16 ohm options plus a line out for direct recording flexibility.
Two Button Footswitch: Instant channel and mode switching so you can focus on playing, not tap-dancing.
A Modern Classic — Reborn
The Hot Cat 50 stands proudly with its signature Bad Cat sound. Built in Costa Mesa, California, this amp features 2 EL34 power tubes, 4 12AX7 preamp tubes, a Celestion Bad Cat Custom speaker, and a durable Baltic birch cabinet that sounds as good as it looks. This is the Hot Cat you've been waiting for — ready to ignite your creativity.
Bad Cat Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 Guitar Combo Amp Features:
Warranty: 5 years. 3 years on speakers; 2 years on parts and accessories; 6 months on vacuum tubes.
Bad Cat Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 Guitar Combo Amp 1x12 Inch 50 Watts Specifications
Item #:
NFS BADHOTCAT50C
Manufacturer Part Number:
HC50MS-COMBO-120V
UPC:
850067710660
Product Specifications
Watts: 50W
Preamp Tubes: 4 x 12ax7
Power Tubes: 2 x EL34
Channels: 2 (Clean and OD)
Modes: 2 (Lo and Hi)
Speaker: Celestion Bad Cat Custom 4, 8, 16 ohm
Foot Switchable: Channel and Mode
Dimensions (W x H x D): 23.75" x 19" x 10.4"
Weight: 47 lbs (Combo)
Bad Cat Mod Shop Hot Cat 50 Guitar Combo Amp 1x12 Inch 50 Watts Specifications
Product Specifications
Watts: 50W
Preamp Tubes: 4 x 12ax7
Power Tubes: 2 x EL34
Channels: 2 (Clean and OD)
Modes: 2 (Lo and Hi)
Speaker: Celestion Bad Cat Custom 4, 8, 16 ohm
Foot Switchable: Channel and Mode
Dimensions (W x H x D): 23.75" x 19" x 10.4"
Weight: 47 lbs (Combo)
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I always wait a little while to write a review and I've had this amp for a month now so here are my initial thoughts. So a bit of backstory. I have been looking for a good tube amp for a long time that had the versatility to do just about everything from blues, to rock, to hard rock, to 80's metal, ...
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