I'm no 'native-english-speaker', too. So no worries. No, do not remove the gaskets, just the platefoam between the plate and pcb. If there are no standoffs you do not have to do anything in this regard. I thought you got the Keychron pc-plate. If you remove the silicone totally, yeah there is a chance of a short. But that's not what I suggested. I just mean you should get rid of the direct connection between the pcb-bottom and the silicone, hence get a thinner sheet of silicone to realize that. In your current state it's a tight sandwich with no air in between, really. This makes the gasketmount totally senseless and you really have kind of a sandwich-mount in the end. If there is some air in between and not a direct connection anymore, the pcb-plate-unit is more isolated from the case by just having the gaskets doing the job of the case-connection. In the end this means: you have a smaller area that translates sound. It is perhaps a bit quieter but also 'thockier'/deeper and poppier in my experience, in case of the Q1. The same explanation holds for the above thing with the platefoam, roughly speaking. Perhaps a FR4-plate would get you closer to your ideal, but I think your choice of the pc plate was a good one. Metal plates would be pingy and high pitched and the platefoam would be needed to mute that ping. So your well positioned platewise. The silicone sheet is there in the end to help the force break by muting the ping by reducing the bottom-case ping. It also makes the reverb-chamber of the case a bit smaller AND most important it's the safety sheet that makes a short impossible: If you, by accident, flex the PCB without anything in between it and the metal case you do get a short and may destroy your pcb that way. But with silicone or something else, like even your tempest-tape mod, in between, there is no risk. Tell me if something is unclear still. Best regards Q