The thing is the signal path we're testing here is mixer to amp since we've turned the channel fader down to 0. Oh, the session and mic channels should be a 0 too. So, the signal is passing through 1 wire. This suggests that it's nothing to do with the way things are wired. IMHO It's about the 08's inability to add significant gain to a signal without adding ten tons of filthy white noise. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to test it out mang, that's helped me out a lot. pz