With the La Toja stick as my soap, I went with setting 3 on cheeks and throat, down to 2 for lower lip and second pass on the the cheeks and throat. Not BBS, but I was not trying for it. My recent setting of the Slim to numbers like 5-3-1 is a bit aggressive, especially with less than 2 days of beard. Perhaps 3-2-1 is more like it.