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No, it's not. If you're talking about an original Jose mod it's an extra tube gain stage in front of the bright channel of a 1959 with a switchable master pre or post ton stack, sometimes with diode clipping on the master.
There are also tons of variations by different modders with pre tone stack masters with diode clipping, sometimes with or without an extra gain stage and various other mods to the usual Marshall gain stages.