I would agree that it is the Presonus driver setup causing the issue

You appear to recording both your LEFT and RIGHT inputs from your mic centre panned

I would go through and change your stereo inputs on your driver mixer so any tracks labelled "L" are panned hard left and any labelled "R" are panned hard right (via the little slider at the top of the track strip in your Presonus mixer)

I have to say that seems really strange that the Firestudio's default settings would do this though no ?
unless maybe you made some adjustments to it previously.  at any rate, maybe you guys are on to something and I don't want to take  a way from that, just wanted to mention it seems odd.
 
 
by the way, what plug in is on that Vox track ?

Oh yeah - its in the presonus - I've used the control one stuff - thats the firestudio right?  the first two outputs are panned to the center thats the problem - DAW 1 and DAW 2.   I think theres a way to stereo pair them by clicking the icon in between the bottom of the channel strip in the presonus between channel 11 and 12 there.. if not Pan em left and right that should fix it -and if you double click on the fader it should snap to zero so your output is always at unity 
 
Cheers

Eureka !  It was the Pre-Sonus.  Stereo pair chan 11 & 12 and problem solved.  What a diff in overall sound also, much fuller.
 
This forum is fantastic.  The knowledge and effort of the community is really phenominal.
 
Thanks and cheers to all.

Hopefully this thread has been of use to other people as far as diagnosing a problem and thinking logically about how to solve it.
 
As soon as you revealed your main out meters were responding correctly you could completely eliminate Sonar and that the problem was outside and "downstream"
 
The next stage would have been your actual monitoring chain

Bristol_Jonesey
Hopefully this thread has been of use to other people as far as diagnosing a problem and thinking logically about how to solve it.
 
As soon as you revealed your main out meters were responding correctly you could completely eliminate Sonar and that the problem was outside and "downstream"
 
The next stage would have been your actual monitoring chain

True. If there's some fundamental, basic issue that no one else can confirm, the problem is almost certainly not with SONAR. If it wasn't possible to pan a mono track in the stereo field with SONAR, this forum would be filled with very upset people