FIRST LAYOUT EVER! Chase tone secret pre. Kind critiques, please?!

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FIRST LAYOUT EVER! Chase tone secret pre. Kind critiques, please?!

Drayve85
Ok, so, this is the first time that made a vero layout from the schematic that I had. I used a power supply layout from this site, and added the circuit. I know it could probably be a smaller tighter layout, so I’m hoping any one will help. I know the layout works cuz I built it and have been using it for over a year. My apologies if this is the wrong place to post it. Also, if feel free to use this layout anyone, anyway you’d like. It’s a great sounding circuit, and I use it as an ‘always on’ pedal. Thanks in advance.C61A3DDC-6680-4AA2-84EB-74805FF2345C.jpeg
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Silver Blues
It's a good start! Congrats for making a working layout your first time!

It could definitely be a bit tighter for sure - for example, column 2 doesn't need to be there at all since there is nothing in it.

We also generally like to avoid standing resistors. A 1/4W resistor spans 4 holes at its smallest, so you want to try to keep all your resistors spanning at least that many rows.

You can avoid a cut by moving the input to row N (which is currently empty) and moving the 100K resistor accordingly.

Those two 10uF caps in columns 12 and 13 are a bit too close to each other - personally I like to space out electrolytics a bit wherever possible to make it easier to build and nicer looking.

Those are the things I catch looking at it briefly, I'd need to sit down with it to give you better advice, but hopefully that helps.

Keep up the good work!
Through all the worry and pain we move on
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Drayve85
Thank you very much, for the kind words and help on the layout! I will use your advice and suggestions. Thank you again!