Fender Bandmaster gain question?

[StratTone]

How much gain can you actually coax out of a Bandmaster channel with using the single 12ax7 and leaving the other channel alone. I've lowered the slope resistor, changed the plate loads from 100k up to 220 and even 1M just to try, changed both triodes cathode resistors to 820 and the cathode caps to 10uf and changed the grid resistors on the jacks to 27k leaving the 1M in place.

Anything else??? Not wanting to change the other channel at all. Seems to have more "bite" but not much more gain I would say. Any help would be appreciated.

[chocopower]

Time ago i get crazy doing something similar...

I changed too the EQ caps, but after a lot of test i finaly used a FET.

FET  as... cathode follower?

[DMichel123]

Bigger PI coupling cap?

[pdf64]

You are doing this on the normal channel - the trem intensity 50k pot eats into the gain / signal swing on the trem channel (best to replace it with 100k linear whatever)?However, you'll never get much gain from 2 stages with a tone stack between them, however you tweak it.
Try disconnecting the tone stack, drive the vol pot directly from the plate via a 1 - 10nF cap.
If wanted, wire the bass pot as a master vol.
Replace the treble pot with a 1M audio type, wire it up like a Harvard tone control. Peter.