In my neverending search for the ultimate bedroom distortion, I collected many schematics and badly translated web pages from the cool russian gang of Viktor Kempf, Mihail Semenov, Anton Kalin, and some whom names I don't know like KMG, Medved, and many others.
My spare time seems to get less and less, but whenever I can I'm breadboarding one of them.
This time it is a simulation from Mihail 'Oldmike' Semenov, circuit is depicted here (http://gtlab.net/gtlab4/archives/216) (in russian). If you can read/translate (I used Google Translate) the page, you may find the reasoning behind his simulation. Sadly, it is beyond my level of expertise :(.
There is a JFET version and an op amp one. I chose to try the op amp version for the predictability of their behaviour, especially when compared to JFETs. That and lack of an oscilloscope.
Anyway, this is what I used:
(http://s8.postimg.org/7vkc08sf9/e_recto_lite_130406.png)
(http://s13.postimg.org/fuhr5c8hj/2013_04_06_12_23_14.jpg)
When I played it, it didn't fell as nice as my favorite pedal (for the time being), an AMT L1 inspired circuit. But I was surprised to find it seems to record much nicer. And it does not even have a cabsim on this clip (https://soundcloud.com/ggedamed/e-recto-lite-test) or this one (https://soundcloud.com/ggedamed/e-recto-lite-test-2).