Stinko - overdrive/fuzz pedal

I kind of got a feeling I know some shit about electronics ... But then I met Staš. And got some reality check. Kudos, man! He made quite a simple design, using various diodes to clip the signal. Due to simplicity I made it my side project. My 850 overdrive had something wrong inside (and I totally messed it with contact-glueing Qs in the sockets (wiggly contacts)), so I took it apart. This left me with an empty pedal enclosure, all the mechanical work and most of the wiring already done. I have drawn the PCB in DipTrace, but made this design on stripboard, it was just a trial really. And I had some unsettled bussiness with the stripboards from forementioned 850 unit and laso from a small buffer, which turned to be annoyingly noisy. Stripboard is a pretty good thing for not so complicated circuits (when drawing in Diptrace, I didn't even have to use both sides of the board). And for overdrive circuit some noise is not such a problem, so also trace layout was not critical. And it is a challenge, to plan in stripboard environment, not just "connect the dots" as you do in real PCB design. So, it was mostly kind of an exercise in stripboard really. And also a trip to circuit design theory.
There were no special things during soldering, except again - as many times before - I managed to make a part of a board far too crowded (it's a big 1uF caps fault). But hey, so I succeded in making the board really compact (due to previous holes in the enclosure the place to mount the board was limited). To mount the board, which featured only one fixing hole on the side, I used a cabletie fixing bracket together with a spacer and a screw - this way I was able to glue the board in an apropriate place and make it fixed.
Testing the pedal first thing was nothing came out of it - then I noticed the input and output are mixed up. Then I noticed that master pot behaves funny - I have put the ground on pin 3. After resoldering the wires there was the time for the final test.
I am quite satisfied, also with the looks. Sound is majestic, with diodes turned on and off. I am used to tube sound, so it sounds a little "plastic" to me, but is good. I used 1N4148 diodes, maybe with the other ones it would be more natural. The setting I like most is with gain pot practically all the way up, diode clipping off and gutar pots to the max. This leads to very sweet saturation of the transistors (2x BC547C used). Next step would be ordering a PCB for it and making few pieces. But I don't need more than one ...