Purple Smoke Boost Build

This one is a bit of a controversial build, by which I mean there were comments left on the original layout website about how pointless it was to build your own, when the real thing is already so inexpensive. Well to each their own, right? The original layout is perfboard, and since I absolutely hate building on perfboard I had to make my own stripboard layout. I know it's low component count but it's still difficult for my brain to translate it all over, and take into account all the jumpers and cuts. I have a habit of overthinking and under focusing. After a little while I managed to make the stripboard layout, but I completely forgot to get it verified by eyes and minds far better at this stuff than my own. Surely that won't come back to haunt me!

I'm a huge fan of low component count circuits that affect the tone in useful ways. This pedal was right up my alley. I have built plenty of boost circuits in the past, but this was one that I just had to build for no other reason than I could. Again, very few components, self made stripboard layout and I was ready to build it. It had been months since I made the layout, and it only dawned on me as I was putting it together that I forgot to get it verified. It didn't take me long at all to put this together, which is when the nerves started to act up. Was this going to work or not? It worked just fine. The confidence boost I got off of this is better than the boost effect itself. I can translate a perfboard layout to stripboard if I take my time. If you're a stripboard builder like me and you've wanted to build a Caline Purple Smoke clone, here you go. It is now officially verified.