I know what you mean i need to borrow some recording equipment. I keep saying that but I never seem to. It's similar to my need for diet and exercise...

I hear ya, but it doesn't take much time to change tubes. It turns out I played alot of songs for each tube swap (not just noodling) to hear each setup with a variety of songs. So I end up practicing more during all of this and it is fun getting to learn this amp.

Regarding recording, now that is where I would get obsessive and probably keep re-recording so that I don't feel embarrassed. But I will put some clips up soon.

I just gigged two nights in a row... of course, lifting the amps and PA stuff, etc. With a Les Paul strapped to my neck for three hours each night.

I've never had such back pain as now. Takes a half hour to get out of bed. lower back spasms, WOW... killer. The car is still loaded with all my stuff. Can't even think of lifting it again.

I need to get in better shape and eat better. Enough is enough. I understand that at 50 things change, but this is due to lack of exercise and poor diet. I used to be in way better shape and never had this issue. I think I need a support group.

So I'm sitting here playin the Les Paul thru the BM 100 with the OD and trying to figure out why i get the boom-boom just with the LP and in the neck pickup position. No matter what cab of speakers I used (4x10, 2x12, 1x15). Not really wanting to go in and adjust the internal bass trimmer and.. i guess one of those boom-booms dislodged a memory bit in my brain and i thought... wait... just lower the low E strng side of the neck pick-up. Get it farther away from the low E string. And. Winner. Boom-Boom all gone. Almost made me forget about my sore back.

Lesson learned. Adjust pickup hieghts when you get a new amp before messin with the amp internals. Duh. It's the simple things in life that make me smile.

Glad it's worked out for everyone that's tried the RCA short gray plate.

Exactly as homes mentioned, previously the BM only liked humbuckers, but now it's lovin the single coils on the cleans and OD. Couldn't believe how well it responded with the RCA!

I'm stocking up on RCAs and Jan Philips 5751 at the moment

OK, guys, I have to update y'all on the tube selection after I started running the WET Stereo reverb in the loop.  You guys NEED to hear this pedal, BTW.  Simply the most impressive, beautiful verb I've ever heard.  I'll do some vids, but my playing has suffered a bit recently, and I don't have any cool recording gear.  Suffice to say that the pedal is a 3-knob piece of awesome with stereo inputs AND expression jacks for depth and mix.  And with the Pedal Customizer software that Brian invented (I think?), you can add shimmer to the verb, or modulation, or even just change the pedal into his Chroma Chorus.  It sounds like a lot of digitizing and fluff, but it's not and you guys would kick yourselves for not checking it out.

Now, back from the hijack.

I put 2 "new" NOS RCA grey shorts in V1 and V2 recently.  Had to replace the old RCA.  Now, I liked this setup--originally I had an RCA in V1 and a Tung Sol RI in V2.  This new combo sounded good on both cleans and OD, but after I plugged in the Wet, the pedal just did not get along with the OD.  It was fizzy.  I HATE fizzy.  So I tried the JAN Phillips 5751 I had laying around, and I liked it (and I KNOW some of you love this in V2), but it wasn't rich enough in harmonics.  So I went back to my original setup (V3 is Sovtek LPS and power tubes are TAD 6L6-GCs, also 100w), and I have to say guys, this is THE setup.  Everyone should give it a go.

St.Ephen

Yes, the WET reverb in the effects loop is great.

V1: RCA short grey
V2: TungSol RI
V3: Sovtek LPS

This is it. Keeping this for a while.

Also realized that my 2x12 cabinet was fully closed in back. Took out one of the panels to open the back. Much better. This amp made ma re-adjust the guitar pickups, the speaker cabs, even my pick attack, and guitare volume control.... but all for the good.

The cleans on the strat are fantastic and can push it to a nice crunch thru the clean channel. The OD with the les paul is also just the way i want it now.
 
I might open it up and lower the bass internal OD trim sometime, but not right now. Gonna play thru it alot now and enjoy learniing it in our complete band context.

THANKS for all your help. Could not be happier with this.

I've always owned tube amps, but the only thing I do to them is swap tubes and speakers (for combo amps).

If i want to "drop" the chassis on the BM in order to adjust the internal trims.... realizing the chassis with the transformers is very heavy and un-balanced...

my question is... how exactly do i do it without breakign anything?