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Make sure the input on Gearbox is set to record input from where the guitar is pluged in.

The sound coming out of UX2 should be dead silent when working properly. When you boot computer, do not have device connected. Make sure nothing else is connected, like a mic or guitar...nothing. Boot comp, plug in UX2...then plug in mic or whatever after you make sure device is working properly. This happens everytime for me if I leave my XLR mic plugged in...noise, static...gargling noises....not sure why....but as long as I boot the device up without the XLR mic plugged in, it works perfectly.

Not sure if this helps, but my UX2 doesn't like having the XLR cable plugged in when I connect the USB cord to start up the device or there will be issues with distortion and crappy sound....makes no sense to me, but I think I can replicate it everytime.

I don't know about you guys but the first time I installed everything... I could hear TONS of background noise...ala (Interference) like when you use computer onboard audio. I was very confused by this. I also thought that the sound coming out of the headphones was only...somewhat decent sounding. So.... I took the USB cable and used my computer cases USB and not the actual motherboard's USB and guess what. Everything was crisp and clear and sounding like I would imagine it should sound. I also got the MIC input to work with the MXL 990 which it would work before. All I got before was pops/clicks....and barely ANY sound out of the mic. Everything works perfect now. Just by switching USB ports. Although...PS: In WinXP i'm having the exact same issues when I installed the drivers and Gearbox the first time...very distorted sound and the mic doesn't seem to want to work properly. I'm a bit baffled in XP because I switched USB ports and it made no difference and in XP is really what I use to record in Cubase 5. So actually it's more important that I fix this issue... Perhaps a reboot, then switch ports again...no idea on what actually needs to be done but I'll re-edit this post again if rebooting, then switching ports again fixes this. (Update) My UX2 device does not like having the XLR cable connected at the same time when I start the device. I can only use my MXL 990 properly if I plug it in AFTER the device is started without the XLR cable in the port. Not sure why either. It also won't play sounds properly with that cable installed...lots of noise, crackling and distortion.