Personally, when soldering components on strip/tripad boards i prefer to keep the layout close to how it looks on the schematic. Its easier for trouble shooting and understanding. eg something like a big muff looks simpler and neat if laid out like the schematic.
However, I need to know if there are any basic rules for designing a layout on vero/strip/tripad boards for a high gain solid state circuit like dr boogie or any other high gain distortion with the least noise/oscillation. The basic ones that come to my mind are;
1- Keep input and output as far from each other as possible?
2- +ve power supply rail isolated and not running in between the circuit?
3- connections to pots preferably on sides of the board and not from in between?
4- not soldering close to a huge gas cylinder that says highly inflammable?
Seems like a lot of effort from a number of ppl went into coming up with dr boogie layouts. Is that because it was very noisy if laid out willy nilly?
All thoughts welcome. Also are there are any links to basic layout designing (not on a specific software like eagle) but general rules for high gain audio circuits.