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Depends on which guitar, how big the room is, how loud I'll be playing, if I'm playing with another guitarist or not......to name a few.
I general though, I tend to set it up with the guitar back down a fair bit and the amp a touch bright so I can use the tone control on the guitar too. Bass and middle are adjusted to suit how the guitar sits with bass player and other guitarist (if there is one).
I just twist them till it sounds right - if that's 1,1, 10, so be it.
Likewise if it's 10,10,10.
EDIT: Might sound daft, but quite often I have to tweak my amp's EQ not so much to suit the room (although of course that too) but also to suit where my amp is located. Sometimes my amp will be tucked away in a corner against a wall or a heavy curtain, or sat on a couple of padded chairs...which can affect the sound like suddenly turning it into a closed-back combo.
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I turn the tone controls to the point where they stop doing stuff and back off a bit. Then I'll compensate for the room. I tend to run my Rics full on and use the 5th knob as a lead/tone control. The LP I run the vols on 10 and the tone on 7. I'll tweak things if I want.
That's in an ideal world. I played in a scratchband with non soundcheck so I looked at the other guitarists amp and set mine like it, worked a treat.
I had a little WEM 15 and my pedalboard blew up, so I put everything on full and controlled it from the guitar. I had a Fender HRD backline once and don't ask me how to set them I cant make them sound good. Happily it blew up once so they gave me a Gorrilla keyboard amp. I ran it clean, turned up the delay and pretended I was in a post rock band.
Real life always gets in the way. IMHO learn how you like it and learn how to fix it when it goes wrong.
That's the gist of what I'm saying - just twist the dials until it sounds good.