Well Eric I like my toast golden brown so roughly number 4 is ample, although if you're talking about my pickups I set both tones to around 7 ie just before they hit single coil (I really need to do the mod that stops them going single coil) and use the pickup selector as a tone switch, so depending on desired sound for a song I'll use the neck pickup on it's own or both together, never the bridge on it's own though, it just doesn't suit my playing, I find myself adjusting the tone setting of the solo'd neck pickup alot too, mostly for the differences in attack/decay you get depending on how it's set though as opposed to for the EQ. I use rotosound strings religiously too, 45-105, I've tried Ernie Ball, D'adario, DR, R.Cocco, Elites, Picato and god knows what else but roto are definatly the boys for me. I'm still really curious as to what a later rail equipped T-40 would do for me though.