ZED 10FX and StudioLive 1602

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I'm trying to figure out how to make this work (if it can work).

The StudioLive is the board I want to use. I can do 16 track recording with it which was one of the main reasons I picked it. That being said it has 12 preamps for 16 channels. I was hoping to use the ZED10FX on the last 4 channels (really I only need 1 channel from the ZED but if I can do more that is fine with me. The ZED seems to color the sound, kind of warmer sounding while the presonus is just normal. I was wanting to keep it so that I could hook a mic into the ZED for the warm preamp, route it to channel 16 on the presonus and then into my DAW.

Anyone know much about the options on the ZED10FX? I see the line level (if that's the right word) input on the back of the studio live, but I can't figure out which out to use on the ZED. Any help would be appreciated.
 
I was able to figure it out using the AUX port, then just turning up the aux send on the channel.
 
Any reason not to keep it simple and use the main outs on the Zed 10?
 
The main out is XLR and I wanted to use the preamp in the ZED instead of the one on the presonus. I thought if I hooked from main out into a xlr input on the presonus I would be doing it wrong. I may have been mistaken
 
It does seem to sound muffled/distorted using this method though so I guess it's back to the drawing board. Should I just do XLR out with a converter to 1/4" jack?
 
An XLR to TRS cable (pretty standard stuff) should work fine--I haven't checked that the line ins on the Presonus are balanced but I'd be surprised if not.

FYI, the Zed outputs are line level even though on XLR. A lot of gear (particularly at the pro end of the scale) use XLRs for all balanced connections whether line or mic level.
 
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