Current recommended SilverFast settings?

hi, i’ve just started using silverfast and 48bit RAW DNG… import to LR…run the plugin>vuescan update… then whitebalance off film edge before converting w/ NLP… my resulting colours are amazing, but dust/scratches everywhere.

when scanning as TIFF (for iSRD use) i’ve set Gamma 1.0 as Nate noted somewhere… the tiff utility doesn’t really widen the histogram and the resulting scan (no white balance taken from egde) is off. when scanning TIFF at Gamma 2.2 without the utility the result is ok but nothing like the raw.

@Nate, +1 on any advice on Silverfast setting please