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Coming back to my pig butt after a year on the shelf I've hooked it up and, yeah, it's fuzzing {with one guitar and not so much with another,} it's just quiet, as in unity at full volume. Is this normal and can it be fixed?
Of note, I read the voltages and photo attached. Because I'm filtering my el cheapo power supply its starting off at 8.87v. Pertinent?
The tone off switch provides a slight boost at the cost of, well, tone.
I've attached a gut shot, not the cleanest build, especially after pulling the volume to recheck its ohms.

Maybe pulling the final drop down resistor?

Any feedback welcomed.

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Hi, soooooooo I made a Pig butt, stock everything, 1N914's.. LM741/ 4558. rocked it prior to you know what .

It does not seem to be clipping,
Sustain knob at 0 lets no signal through, (normal?)
the output with everything at full seems to be about unity.

IC voltages all good..

Made up an audio probe/ test rig ( wished I done that years ago) . Its my 1st time with a probe, a bit hit and miss.
Following the schem I guessed i should be getting signal at the input/pin 2 of LM471 ? don't seem to be, only on pin 6 , only on the output, weird. also i'll get noise in between the diodes but not at each end. I'm getting a bit confused about what should be making noise and what should not..

I've replaced both IC's with different sourced parts.

I've spent hours trawling the net in vain hoping that someone else has had this issue...

I've been pretty lucky in past builds i guess, oh and i used lead free solder for about half the board till i got frustrated with the mass of smoke and slow melt , back to holding my breath in a cloud of lead...

Any hints appreciated.