External Output is loud and distorted.. any suggetions?

[audiosophy]

Hello all,

I have a problem with the ext. out routing on the I/O. Normally I have all the channels going straight to the master, no problem. Recently I have wanted to route my main vocal channel out, through the ext. out, out of channels 3 & 4 so that the sound man can mix between my main vocal and the rest of the mix (coming out of 1 & 2). When I select ext. out and channels 3 and 4, I notice both a large boost in gain, as well as some almost tape like distortion. I can turn the channel's volume down, but the signal still sounds overloaded, just quieter.

What is strange is that its definitely not any settings on the audio interface, because when I select the master to come out of 3 & 4, there is no change in the sound at all.

There seems to be something going wrong with the ext. out -

I've read the manual and searched the forums but I have not seen this problem mentioned.

Any help would be much appreciated! thanks

I am running:

Mac book pro, OS 10.5.8, Ableton 8.2.1, Motu Ultralite mk3 Hybrid

[chrk]

When I select ext. out and channels 3 and 4, I notice both a large boost in gain, as well as some almost tape like distortion. I can turn the channel's volume down, but the signal still sounds overloaded, just quieter.

Check your cue out settings.

Channel out to 3/4
+ Cue out to 3/4
+ Solo/Cue to Cue
+ Cue engaged on the channel
sums channel and cue to 3/4.

What is strange is that its definitely not any settings on the audio interface, because when I select the master to come out of 3 & 4, there is no change in the sound at all.

I was about to scrap the above idea after reading this, but I checked again. - Setting Master out to the same output as Cue out disables Cue on the channel...

[audiosophy]

Thanks for the Ideas. I've tried playing around with the cues, but this problem occurs even for playing back recorded material as well as live record enabled stuff too. I did just set the cue to come out of different channels. No joy unfortunately. I'm starting to feel this must be something todo with the interface, even though ive explored all the obvious things. so maybe I'll try motu next...

[chrk]

I'm starting to feel this must be something todo with the interface, even though ive explored all the obvious things.

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