Track Enabled To Record Distorts my Guitars Sound

When I enable a track to record it alters the sound of my guitar. It almost sounds like the distortion effect is being applied twice which makes it the sound full of static and just crappy.
If I disable the record button the guitar sound goes back to normal.
Any ideas??? I'm totally stumped.
other info:
The GNX4 is connected via USB to the laptop and LE8
The laptop is configured to use the USB interface as the input and output for audio

The LE8 track is a simple audio track with no plugins applied. I'm not using any of the features in LE8 to alter the sound of the guitar.
My GNX4 1/4 outputs are connected to a simple mixer (with no effects enabled or anything else to alter the guitars sound) and my speakers are plugged into the output of the mixer.
When I disable the LE8 track for recording my guitar sound is perfect. I hit the record button and it changes the sound. I don't know what other information I can give????
Its almost like hitting record causes some kind of signal loop that is applying the GNX4 effects twice before LE8 records it. I can't explain how that might be happening but that is what sounds like is happening.

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