Tone shaping the Overdrive section in a non-HRM

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First post. I have a non-HRM-ish amp built on a Princeton SF donor, now with MM DR iron. It was built before I discovered this forum recently. I'm pretty happy with it at the moment. It is a little different because it still has a cathodyne PI and Fenderish type reverb on a 6V6 platform. I didn't use the LNFB that all the non-HRMs seem to have.

I adpated the Moonlight tone control/volume for my master/post OD tone. It is capable of a treble boost shelf, similar to a Marshall bright channel, as well as treble bleed. The boost is actually useful with a Paul on neck PU with just a slight, bluesy overdrive, or with an attenuator. The bleed works pretty well with a variety of guitars and settings.

The tone stack started as a BF Fender. Treble cap is 330pf instead of 250pf. Princeton has no hole for a mid pot, so I improvised. On the board, there is a mid trimmer of 100k (split from bass pot) on all the time, set at 60k right now. There is a mid trimmer of 25k switched in parallel in clean mode, set at 10k right now. I'm going to add a mid-boost, but no plans for PAB.