Duocast issues - hum, gated fuzzy splutter etc.

Hi all,

I built this Duocast today and have some issues with it that are puzzling me. There's signal going through in bypass and both LEDs work fine, but

1. When I turn on the first channel, there's just a loud hum with a very quiet and distorted signal somewhere underneath.
2. When I turn on the second channel, the hum disappears, but the signal that's coming through is very gated and extremely fuzzy.

From what I can tell from the very degraded signal, the high pass pot seems to work, the gain pot doesn't do much and the volume pots for both channels sort of work. Using the switch for higher voltage yields all the same results, just a lot quieter. The internal trim pots seem to do something, but since the signal is already very rough to begin with, I can't really say what.

Some pictures:

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Does anything look off? Thanks a lot in advance!
 
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