if you take all the water from your sink and put it in your bathtub it’s not goint to fill it - the OT inputs have high headroom, even higher on MK2 - the OT is capable of taking voltages your soundcard possibly can’t dream of generating - the soundcard is the sink in that analogy - there are even more topics on OT gain etc - so read through those for insights on what you can do within OT to minimise the controllable aspects of the issue, but keep in mind that the clipping FS digital range is not comparable across two devices you need to look at the analog potential of both if you send via analogue - the OT handles far hotter signals than nominal +4 both inwards and out
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