Boss T-Bone Distortio/Octave/Trumpeter

[Ben N]

1) YL, how was it for you? 
2) PJimiP, belated kudos for the Ellington/Steely Dan quote. Great choice.
3) Like the Percolator, this looks to be one of those quirky, hard to replicate, vintagey circuits that's awesome if you get it right, but can be very frustrating to figure out why it doesn't do what HIS does. Ah, well, it's too simple a build not to try.
4) Thanks Alex, Jimi, etc. for all the good work, and Jon for the perf layout that I will probably use.

[thehallofshields]

I struggle to understand the magic of this circuit. To me, Q2 just looks like a PNP Buffer... except it's DC Coupled with Q1. Huh.