Re: Love.....
Running it with both the 4x12 and the combos speaker produced a very cool, 3D sorta sound with the combo providing a very cutting tone and the 4x12 (Vintage 30s) providing alot of warmth.....this is at somewhat low volumes (you'd have to talk somewhat loud to be heard over it), we'll see how it performs at gig volume later this week.
Running it with a Hotplate used moderatly (-8db) and the lowering amps master volume produced a better "bedroom" (still loud) tone than cranking the amp up and attenuating down to -16db. That said, the amp did sound reasonably good without the Hotplate and turned down to bedroom volumes.....not quite as thick, but still reasonably good. Certain mixtures of settings seem to exagerate the volume drop between R1 and R2, and others seemed to minimize it....now if only I could remember which was which.
I haven't had a chance to run it full boar yet....those results will come later.