I hear ya...It's a fine line you have to walk with the way that the gen 6 hits when lining....anything below a 7rl and your gonna be visiting blowout city if you don't pay really close attention.

I usually run a tatsoul 8rl at between 8.5 to 9.5 volts, depends the area I'm tattooing.
But I have been doing some smaller stuff lately that needs a 5rl....so I'll come down to about 7- 7.5 volts.

I'm extremely curious to find out how putting the soft clip on effects the hit...so I can possibly speed up my movement but still not have it hitting way to hard when i come up on the volts....hope that makes sense..good to hear from an experienced tattooer first before i muff the beginning of a line job and have to change out clips 1 minute into a tattoo...lol

Do you have a gen 7?
Kinda weird, but I have noticed that even with the hard clip, it still hits softer then the gen6 with a hard clip.
Would love to here your input on shit like this because I REALLY DIG YOUR WORK, and would be all ears!!