Just had an interesting problem with an overdrive build on vero board and it took me a while to solve... Sometimes you see tiny cracks or lines going across the copper trace. Usually these haven't been an issue for me but in this build it meant a complete break in continuity - so my overdrive would work but there was no dirt in the sound. Checked voltages at the chip and the transistors - all good. The connections at the gain pot were all good but it had no effect on the sound. Turns out it was a tiny crack in the copper trace on the opposite side of the board where there is a cap and resistor in parallel feeding the output. So the signal was passed through the resistor but not the cap.
So I ran a bead of solder along the trace to join the components and voila! Success! I've never had that problem with Vero before. One to watch out for I guess.
So I ran a bead of solder along the trace to join the components and voila! Success! I've never had that problem with Vero before. One to watch out for I guess.
