Pedals that stack with the Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (high headroom → mid-forward)

Into a high headroom tone, Marshall Guv'nor brings a pull toward mid-forward that's missing

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (high headroom → mid-forward)

Univox Super-Fuzz leans this high headroom tone toward mid-forward, which it doesn't make on its own

Goes in front of the amp

clean platform takes the driveA clean, high-headroom stage takes on dirt it can't generate by itself. (high headroom → fuzzy)

Run Colorsound Overdriver into that high headroom platform and it finally leans toward fuzzy

Goes in front of the amp

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain. (dynamic → compressed)

What Universal Audio 1176 Compressor brings here leans toward compressed — that's worth building a pairing around

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Run Boss BF-2 Flanger after Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat in the signal chain, clear of Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat's own gain stage

Goes in front of the amp

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat's harmonically rich voice out front: Electro-Harmonix Canyon goes in Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat's effects loop so its modulated voice doesn't muddy it — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat's harmonically rich voice out front: Strymon BigSky goes in Bad Cat Mark Sampson Modified Black Cat's effects loop so its ambient voice doesn't muddy it — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Sits in the amp's effects loop