Don’t put it in the loop…it should go inline in front of the preamp otherwise it’s going to sound awful. Loop is for things like chorus and delay, not dirt. And muffs are kinda inherently noisy pedals…

Nice! I take it you’re excited? I bet it’s heavy as a mofo…beautiful. Congratulations.

Digital isn’t a tone killer. Crappy A/D converters are tone killers, and that’s the problem. That and everything was digital in the 80s, so it automatically gets associated with mullets and sports jackets with the sleeves rolled up halfway…
Digital gear can (and does) sound good, just not cheap crappy digital gear is all.
Although I mostly prefer a big old chunk of germanium with wires sticking out of it and some tubes for music.

I needed some to repair a Big Muff. Snagged some regular round shaft pots and dremelled one down to a D-shaft. It was a PitA, so I just used a round hole Davies knob on the other one.

This thread: https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/2244/
And these pots: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120486813905

Sad. He sure left us with a few wonderful things to remember him by though.

Did you buy it new? If so, take it back. If not, don’t worry about it, just replace the screws.

The vocal mod helped a lot in mine as did the whipple inductor, although you might have good luck with a RI Fasel. I really like the whipple though…got close-ish to the sound of my ’69 Clyde McCoy.
If you want to go all out, have a look at this: http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kazuhee/ewahmod1R.htm
I was always going to try modding it more, but got tired of it.
The FoxRox buffer is good too if you use fuzz.

Great clean tone? I turn off my pedals
Actually, I love my Echoplex for what it does to the clean tone.