i agree with Howard Davis, Julian, and many others in support for tube equipment.

amp wise, i must have tube, i have learned personally that i prefer the tone to tube amps after owning and testing over 100 different amps.

i recently sold off my Peavey 5150 head, and Mesa Boogie dual rectifier head. do to the fact that i don’t play out much any more and when i do there not huge venues.

i currently just use a 60W 1/12 tube combo that works very well for me, and if the show is bigger than i can mic it. check it out i like it very much (i also got it for $150. free shipping, and metal flight case on Ebay because no one els knew what it was, i should have payed over 3K for it :clap: )

in my opinion its a Euro clone of a Boogie mark II C+

http://www.studiomaster.com/1981 – 1982.htm

on the pedal side of tube use, i can go both ways, sum i think are gimmick and sum are really good.
i have not tried much, gimmick wise, i have a Behringer vintage tube distortion pedal that i think is crap.

but i love my EHX tube Black Finger compressor!! best one Ive ever tried!!

and i love the sound of a Mesa Boogie rectifier distortion!! since i down graded and i no longer have that sound and tone in my combo, i had been searching for years for a pedal to compromise.

i finally found it with the Damage Control’s “Solid Metal” a dual tube based distortion pedal. (unfortunately they no longer make pedals, they now make pedals partnered with another company under the name Strymon)

they slip on like normal knobs, but they are a very very tight fit, that they are attached using a press to get them on, so unfortunately they will be extremely hard to remove!

why not try sum type of slip over rubber cover, on the knob? like MXR does, or make sum thing, like maybe out of a small rubber ball? or wrap the knob in electrical tape or sum thing to make it bigger and more grip.

i see your running a compressor and many od/distortion pedals. i know its normal to use the compressor before OD/distortion, but once in a while you will find that a specific fuzz/OD/dist/boost just doesn’t like being after and actualy needs to be placed before the compressor.

in my case it was my Double Muff, it had a loud airy hiss all the time, and for a long while i thought thats was just the nature of the beast. but i found that it did not like being after my tube Black Finger compressor.

so this could be another thing for you to try out, remove your fuzz/OD/dist/boost pedals one at a time and see if thats the problem.

you problem could be one or more of many things, this is just one idea.

i dont know the details for sure, but i have always been sure its just an overdub of his voice on top of the origin in unison, and/or other band mates singing in unison, not an actual effect. that was the whole point of that song, was to show off there vocal chorus abilities.

FYI for those new here….right click on the photo and select view pic (top option) it will let you see whe whole thing, for example “tape’s” last pic only shows half of the pic.

by the way “TAPE” what is the manufacturer name of the 5 pedals on your board with the similar artwork, one has an octopus on it??

my first guess would be that the power jack got knocked around, open it up (let it set for a whole day after its last time it was plugged in to be safe from voltage) and see if there is any broken solder connections near the power jack.

sorry i cant help you out here, i do own this pedal, and have done sum repairs on it. but unfortunately the mega volume drop is normal for this unit, there are “mods” to fix it tho.

oohh!! a deluxe octave multiplexer?!?!

well ill be…..just when i think i know of all EH models….this is news to me!