Well I redid the board - tried to create the same board following a schematic I found from a different site for reference (that had a different stripboard lay out) to no great success.



The fact of the matter is, I'm so green, but this process really helped me get a better handle on schematics following alongside the build. Prior to this I have only built off of nice, sleek purchased PCBs. I think I followed the current flow to a couple end points but got mixed up with the IC, as I don't really have a grasp of what that does. While this was a good exercise, I'm going to wait to troubleshoot them later. I think a big problem is that I don't have a matching schematic for this layout - the one I was looking at seemed too different (and also had a strip board layout, but I wanted to see if I could overcome my initial failure). Luckily I ordered some proper strip board so I hopefully won't make the same mistake the third time around... and as I learn more I can go and correct one or both of the buffers I attempted on square pad.



Thanks for the replies.



JL