I run a simple signal flow of a guitar or bass from that, thru a compression pedal into Audiobox USB. The gain knob has to be all the way turned off and the signal is still fairly hot. Same with my condenser Microphone. Once I turn on the Phantom power, the gain knob has to be all the way off and it is still a very hot signal. I've searched for this problem and have only found the opposite issue of the signal being too quite for everyone else. Starting to think I got a lemon. Anyone else have this issue of needing to have the gain knobs turned off and still get a hot signal?
EDIT: The signal from guitar or Bass without the compression pedal is still too hot