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Well, I should say that it works now, after some troubleshooting. I think I mentioned that this is my first build on a vero board. The way the layout drawing was done confused me a bit, and I had the transistors in backward. I got no output, so I just checked it against the schematic and found the goof.
This actually was a good exercise, because I'm starting to become more proficient reading schematics with transistors in them. Repeat after me: base, collector, emitter. Base, collector, emitter.
The whole circuit fits on a small board - see its size compared to a 9 volt battery. And there's only one pot for volume - so it could fit into a small box.
I played it for just a few minutes, and it sounds pretty good. I was using my little Vox DA-5 with the gain set pretty low, so there was not a lot of headroom on the amp. As a result, the signal really squashed and fuzzed out at the highest settings. I'm going to try it with a tube amp - I suspect it will be a lot better.
And I found a couple of mods on the interweb I want to try also.
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