Electra-type circuit: reducing volume?

[ragamuffin]

So I breadboarded a circuit based on the "Shrieking Eel" Electra distortion that JHS made on their Youtube channel.

I made the following changes changes:
-Deleted the "body" control, replaced that section with just a 100nf cap
-Swapped the transistor for a NPN germanium (tested at 151hFE on my TC1) + removed the 1M resistor between the transistor base and collector
-Changed the 4 diode clipping to 2 diode clipping with germanium diodes

It sounds pretty awesome! But it's too loud! Even with the volume knob at minimum I get well above unity volume.

What can I do to tame the volume a little?

 

[ragamuffin]

Update: I found the issue, my volume pot was not connected to ground correctly! And my diodes were also not connected to ground