IC Buffer problem

[m-theory]

Help me out here...I built one of these buffers the other day from this vero layout http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/Cab42s-layouts/ic_buffer.gif.html

I had it wired to a DPDT switch, and with the switch off, signal passed as one would expect.  With it on, there was a noticeable drop in volume and highs.  When I removed the battery with the switch "on," it continued to pass signal, although this time it distorted when pushed hard. 

Thinking I'd made some dumb error, I built another one, this time without the switch, but had the exact same results.  Also, I noticed that when I put it between two long (about 18') cords, it distorted all the time.  With a long cord on one end and a short (about 1') cable on the other, it didn't distort, but sounded muffled. 

I expected this circuit to leave the signal pretty much as it was, except perhaps to make it more punchy and bright.  Instead, it's dull and lifeless.  I can't believe that this is normal for this circuit, but at the same time, I find it hard to believe that I built it wrong, exactly the same way, twice.  Is this layout perhaps not correct? 

Numbers are:

Battery = 9.52
1 = 0.04
2 = 7.23
3 = 3.18
4 = 0.00
5 = 5.42
6 = 9.51
7 = 9.51
8 = 0.00
10uf cap + = 7.24
10uf cap - = bleeds down steadily, starting from about 1.65 v

[John Lyons]

Divide and conquer.
Download the schematic from AMZ and check it against the layout.

It says it's "verified" but who knows...it's a simple circuit so it won't take long.
Compare the schematic to your wiring and connections on your build.
Make sure you made all the trace cuts in red and used that jumper under the IC.
It's probably something simple.

john

[R.G.]

Ditto. Make sure you made all the trace cuts, including the hard-to-see one under R2 and the ones under the IC body. VERIFY with an ohmmeter that the cuts you think are made are, in fact, cut. Also with the ohmmeter, verify that things that are supposed to be connected are connected.