Audio in headphones sounds like garbage

I am trying to record a simple voice track using a M-Audio MobilePRE USB preamp for my mic as well as my headphones. The audio in the headphones sounds really bad like there's a latency or echo. Any ideas on how to clean this up?

Is the unit mixing open mic audio from the MobilePRE with the the playback audio input from your Mac? If so, adjust that mix setting so you're getting computer audio only. If not, have you tried just plugging the headphones direct to the MacPro ie to make sure everything is ok from the timeline and confirm the issue is from the MobilePRE.
Hope it helps
Andy

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