I didn't do it on my 1959SLP, but it was modded when I got it. I took it to my tech to have him look it over and, frankly, clean up the amateurish job. He said it's a PRE PIMV, and because of that, the loop he (my tech) then added sounds just amazing. I had a Bray-modded 1987x with a factory loop that sounded like ass because the added gain stage just overloaded it (the loop). My 1959SLP absolutely nails the Fair Warning album tone. It's a real one trick pony, but it does that one trick amazingly well.
On my '69 100w Plexi clone build my tech added a sort of variac knob in the back. Those Merren trannies just put out so much power, it was unusable and would blow out my speakers if I turned it up enough to get a little breakup. Now I can turn the power down to get some more breakup with the vol. I and II knobs. But I just use this amp as a pedal platform now. It really has the mojo, but not much gain.