Hi!
I have a somewhat similar rig, although that may not matter...
I believe that the "tics" that you're hearing are the kick drum beats. But they're severely clipped. You don't have a ton of signal either, but that might be OK if you just had the H1 dialed back (I don't know how much gain a "10" is on that unit.
As far as the CA-11 with the Ugly preamp, your settings might have been too high - I run CA-11 with an older 9100 preamp turned "half way up", which I think is about the +5 dB mark. I run mine into an iriver H320 line-in jack with the gain around -2 to +5 dB.
So it could be that +15 on the Ugly box might have been too high?? If the 9V battery was weak, that could easily have mislead you on setting levels and caused the problem. If the battery was fine, then you were probably too close to the kick drum.
Chris Church is the authority in this situation and I may change my answer to whatever he says!