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Solved!! It was a rookie move! I forgot to clean of all the flux and it was shorting the whole board. As soon as I cleaned it with some alcohol all my voltages to the chip were where they were supposed to be. This thing sounds good!

I have 9v at pin 8 on the ic. The voltage doesn't change when I turn the pots. It does go from 2.9 with the switch in hard clipping to 3.7 when I switch it to soft clipping.

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Second build and it kinda works! I'm only getting 2.9v on the pins on the ic instead of 4.5v. It sounds pretty good until I flip over to hard clipping then when I get the gain up to about 12 o'clock it starts sputtering and sounding broken. I've narrowed it down to r10. On one side I have 9.4v and the other is 2.9v, so I figured the resistor was bad and installed a new one with the same result. Any help would be appreciated. This is my 2nd attempt at building and at least this one makes sound!