Well, I played the strat all morning long, thru the BM, my sovtek, and my ampeg tried boosting the compressor and the tube screamer etc, and I've decided that after two years, I'm just not a strat guy. I went and traded it in on an Epi Les Paul standard. The strat was great for cleans, but I just can't get the OD sounds I wanted out of it. I played les pauls most of my life anyway, so it's kinda like coming home

I was thinking along those same lines, and thinking about getting a voltage regulator. Also, since I was bored, I switched the power tubes back to the JAN Phillips 6L6WGB's, switched the sag resistor on, which i'm starting to treat more like a hi/lo switch like on the univalve amps, to drop  the plate voltages down to 430 like I usually do to run those tubes and i got "my" sound again. They really tighten the bass up and accentuate the mids nicely. I keep going back to em, so I think I'll prolly stick with em. Also, I'm sure that the voltage drop throughout the amp affects things as well and helps get the sound I want. Who knows? I'm just glad I got it back

I have to do the same thing! I use either my boosta grande, tube screamer, or fulltone 2 .If I turn the drive up enough to get a good overdrive goin it gets way too compressed sounding. My strat seems to have particularly weak pickups in it, kinda like how SRV's lenny guitar was, bright and sparkly and beautiful for clean tones, but not so much for OD, and not just with the BM either. I may try some hotter pickups in her, maybe some Fralin vintage hots or blues specials.

My BM is very happy til I plug the strat in. The cleans are beautiful, but I still can't dial in the OD channel with the strat. I was thinking maybe it was single coils, but the Dano sounds great. Garr

I am thoroughly convinced that these OTS amps are alive and have moods. Anyone else ever get that feeling?

shouldn't be any problem at all

Just One? Can't pick just one!!

SRV, Freddie King, Albert King, Jimi, Lonnie Mack, The Reverend Willy G, Pat Metheny, and Jimmy Page are prolly my biggest influences

Sounds like he means he uses clean, clean + PAB, OD. And OD + PAB and sets his volume pedal to low, adjusts the OD trim to a mellow level, and then uses his pedal to increase the volume. I do kinda the same thing with a clean boost pedal, just not adjustable on the fly

I agree. It defintely changed the drive and overall character of my BM for the better. It also allows me to run the masters higher so I can get off the bright caps and drive both the pre and power sections harder without having bleeding eardrums

sounds like a great idea to me!

AFAIK the Rock-It is Cathode Biased. No adjusting except by adjusting the bias resistors

I have 2 of their alnico 1265's with their pre-rola treatment in my BM and i love em. The Celestion Gold is a lovely speaker as well, just not for me. I haven't heard of too many faulty ones. very strange indeed

That's really odd. Sounds like they have a bad batch of speakers, indeed it sounds like a rub problem. I'd keep pushing until you get what you want from them. I'd say try some other makes like weber or scumback, but since you are in the UK, i'd just keep pressing celestion to make good on their product, especially if it sounds the same in two different amps.

Very nice looking amp!!

Hmm good point.