Any Bad Side-Effects to Adding Clipping Diodes to Something Like This?

[PRR]

> sounded much better and louder.

Then call it done.

I can see some things which could be different, slightly simpler; but don't mess with a working plan which is not too expensive to build.

[Ben Lyman]

Thanks PRR, that's reassuring. Simpler would be nice... I think I'll stick with this for now. Gonna use a few sockets here and there anyway so my buddy can choose light or heavy distortion.
While I was sitting here in limbo staring at the BB I did an experiment out of boredom. I replaced one of the diodes with an LED and shrink-tubed an LDR to it. I tried the LDR (w/jumpers) in a bunch of different places. Like, output to ground or input to ground, got some interesting results but in the end I took it all out.