Audio recording is choppy and staticy

I have been trying to record my vocals directly into an audio track in LogicPro but the recording ends up being choppy and staticy. Dont know how to describe it but it sounds the same as if you are on a cell with someone and the signals are not good and the voice keeps coming in and out. The quality of the sound is also bad when you are able to hear it.

I am using a Mackie ProFX 8 channel mixer. My computer is a a M2 MAC Studio with 64GB RAM and running Sonoma 14.5. Storage is solid state 512GB. Bought it last year. The connection with the mixer is via USB.

The interesting part is that all recordings are perfectly okay when i use Audacity in the same setup on the same mac. So basically, i just minimize Logic and go to Audacity to record my voice, export to mp3 and then import into Logic to get the job done. That tells me that there is no issue with the mixer or the Mac and perhaps the issue is the with Logic Pro settings. I have tried to change the I/O buffer in all settings from 32 to 1024. Changed the processing threads to 12, Process Buffer Ranger to Large, Multithreading to Standard and High Precision. Nothing works. Need help.