Chaos Machine ticking in powered bypass

So I just finished up a Chaos Machine build and it sounds great but it does have the ticking based off the rate pot when in a powered bypassed state. I read a thread on here where Bones describes a fix for the Sea Horse and other PCBs including the Chaos Machine but all the discussion centered around fixing the other boards and no instructions were given for exactly which components to pull or add on the Chaos Machine. The legacy circuits on the Sea Horse before the fix don't seem to be available so in trying to compare the two circuit schematics I am a bit stumped.

Anyone encounter the same ticking and get it fixed on the Chaos Machine? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Can you move the wires from the input/output jacks further away from the PCB?
I taped them to the side of the enclosure with copper shielding tape and that seemed to help some but it is still there. I've got some Gavit braided shield push back wire from instrument builds that I may swap the signal wires out with to see if I can more fully shield the signal.

I can get the ticking to stop by chaining certain pedals upstream of the Chaos Machine; I haven't tried many pedals, but so far the Cleaver and Aft boards will kill the tick. My BYOC silver pony II will not.

I went through this old thread here https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/chaos-machine-ticking.953/ . I tried a few other op amp equivalents with stuff I had in my stash (opa2134, tl082, tl072) and the only ones that would kill the tick also killed the LFO function. Someone in the thread I linked below tried tl022's in a dark rift; I might give that a shot.

I was really kinda hoping that the mention of the Chaos Machine in this thread ( https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/how-to-fix-the-lfo-tick-in-the-sea-horse-and-dark-rift.2360/ ) would lead to a similar fix.

I'll keep chuggin' at it. Thanks for responding and offering help!
 
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