You post is becoming confusing to me. You said this:
"i have levels in the mains bus...mains bus is routed to my quadcapture.." And now your talking about "tracks" ?
I would say you haven't set your track outputs correctly, but from what you say above then this would not be the case. Normally tracks will default to going directly to the 1/2 output which results in sound. If the meters are moving in your mains output bus 1/2 like you have said and your monitors are correctly attached to outputs 1/2 then there is sound. The meters will not move if you muted the buss. If meters are moving there is a signal. But this has to be the correct output as I said. I'm not sure how many outputs you have but double check your correlating the meters with the same outputs the speakers are using.
We can only hope that you have correctly set your interface and monitors up correctly now as you have said the tech walked you through this. And that if there is a software mixer he helped you set that correctly too.
If you insert a "Master" buss as shown in gswitz screen shot, then you send all your track outputs to that first. Then the Master buss is output to Main 1/2.