My Les Paul has Seymour Duncan's that I coil split. The neck pup in single coil mode is quite nice in OD mode on this amp. I use that position a lot for certain solos that need some extra thickness and still keep the chime (e.g. Europa). But even in single coil mode, the LP is way to bassy with this amp for the low E string and A string. otherwise it is fine for other strings/frets. In fact, it has quite a nice tone with the other strings at any fret.

Update: Ok, so I stepped away from the OD channel on my BM for a while. I mean, I have it set up, but the clean channel on this amp is way to good to ignore. I ran some OD pedals through it and was able to get the perfect balance and tone I was after. Now you have to remember before I bought the BM I was all set to buy a Brownface Fender or a boutique tweed so I would of not had a OD channel to begin with anyways. As far as I'm concerned I saved money as the clean channel on the BM is almost, same or better than the Fenders I have played through. The pedal I settled on is a Tejas from PedalworX that I had for a few years. It's basically a 1:1 TS808 with the option of a bit more gain and sparkle. I'm also running a bit of delay for a slapback effect. With my Strat through the clean channel with the pedal on/off and my wha pedal - I can cover everything from Blues, POP, Top 40 and Classic Rock. I like this amp alot more this way. Now, I can get the OD channel hotter than the pedal, but not better. I have the OD channel set up for a few of the heavier songs we play where I need more sound to fill. Also with the bright pulled and the 1st volume down to, say 2 1/2 - 3 the clean channel on this amp is very tweed Bassman like. It loves pedal.

I'm with you on that the BM takes pedals extremely well although when playing in a band situation, the OD channel is so much more musical. I use the pedals mainly for low volume playing when I don't need to crank it up too loud, and when I need something more crunchy for those rock moods...

Not to mention running my delay on the clean channel bypasses the need to the use the effects loop and also negates the issue of overloading the signal. Simplicity is priceless

HRK

Another update: I've been focusing on the clean channel so I did a few speaker swaps. I noticed a lot of stiffness in the amp and narrowed it down to the EVM. While it's nice and heavy duty for the od channel, it does not lend it self to nice cleans where compression helps things out. I also noticed I had to pull the bright all the time to get anything half decent. On some positions it was too bright and started to drive me nuts, bright in, bright out, etc.. I had to fix this..

First in was a broken-in Weber 12f150 (50 watts) This speaker gave some very nice Blackface tones all over the place. Much better than the EVM and the dreaded stiffness was all gone. But, I still had to pull the bright knob to get the "spank." The od channel was ok, not as good as with the EVM, but not bad. I was half way there with this speaker.

Next went in a brand new Kendrick Brownframe, Their version of a higher wattage V30. Wow! Wow!! & Wow!!! No need to pull the bright anymore. With my Strat and a TS808 on or off it was Billy Gibbons city (think Jesus just left Chicago) So much character, perfect compression. Awesome Texas Blues tone. Better than two Victoria tweeds I have owned in the past! People pay big dollars for this type of tone. With some slapback it was dripping tonal goodness and the speaker is not even broken in yet! I'm still tweaking, took a break to write this. I'm gonna put another JAN 5751 in V2 to try and get a little more headroom in the od channel. Already have a 5751 in V1. If I can't - this is way good enough.

Why am I writting this? Because I believe not everybody who buys this amp wants to play Jazz Fusion all day. I think some people like me buy this amp and are dissapointed because it could be so off the mark compared to the more popular designs. I personally, like most here have never played a real Dumble. The tone in my head is more Fender, mostly tweeds. Maybe I made a mistake buying this amp in the first place, but now I'm starting to think not.

Bottom line: this amp can be anything from Jazz to Classic Rock and everything in between. It's a beautiful platform to create different tones. Most classic and boutique amps are judged on their cleans. You can always add od from outside sources. But the holy grail cleans are inherent of the design. This amp has some magic going on in that regard.

HRK

I normally keep the bright pulled on mine, but i have warmer speakers, too. Also, in regards to the OD, whebn i use itm i normally keep my HRM bypassed, so that my OD tone matches my clean tone pretty well, again pretty much building on the clean tone. Also, I have found that when using the c-lator i like it better with the output turned up to about 1 o clock, and the masters adjusted to the appropriate level for the venue. Pushes the PI nicely and brings out the punchiness and spank of the amp

Gregg