illogical transistor behaviour at voltage controlled amplifier and clipping

I have build two identical versions of the circuit above on the same board. First VCA works and I can adjust it for both logarithmic and linear CV response to have no output at 0V CV. The second is working at linear response yet it can't shut down the input signal at log response. What I mean by it can't shut down the signal is: Because this is an voltage controlled amplifier it needs to have 0V at output when correctly biased with 0CV input. The second VCA does work at Log response but no matter the bias pot it always lets input pass through a bit.

Logically I checked the voltage differences between these two circuits to find out what is wrong with the second one. Turns out all of the check marks are the same when Bias is turned all the way down. Only difference is at the "" mark. The voltage at the collector of PNP transistor doesn't response like the first one. I used BC548 and BC558 for these. When I found that BC558 of the second VCA is acting weird I changed it with another one and another one. I tested like 5-6 different ones. I also tried changing BC548 with no avail. Because at the 2nd VCA the voltage at 1st pin of the LM13700 is not getting as low as the fist one the signal keeps passing through. I tried changing the ICs, I tried changing R18 with 475 instead of 222. I basically checked everything yet find a problem that would cause the issue.
View attachment 138497And there is the thing above. Output is always the scaled version of the input but it is CLIPPED from the top for NO reason. I tried decreasing input signal volume with a voltage divider and nothing changed. At both VCAs and all of the CV response settings the signal has a positive voltage offset for no reason and I think as a result it clips from the top only. Since this issue can be only happening from the LM13700 I obviously checked all around it. I just can not find a reason. I don't know why voltage controlled amplifiers are this problematic.