don't know if it was a shoddy output jack connection or the fact that all of my cables (except the one that lives in my bass case for church) are sketchy, but doing very little it works and it's loud! I've ordered the bias diode off eBay but until then I've put one of the 1n3193 I replaced with newer rectifier diodes (when I removed them from the circuit it seemed as if the oxidation on the leads made it hard to get a good read on my meter)
thank you all for the help! it anyone needs a pc602 board, I'd be more than happy to send it their way