audio recording problem

hola all---i need some help

currently i am trying to record audio with sonar-and a podxtlive

my problem is that when i record anything it seems that the playback is off time and always a little faster ---is this a latency problem and what do i do?

thank you

Do you mean playback monitoring during recording or afterwards? What it sounds like to me is that you're saying the beat is inconsistant when you listen to the playback after recording. If this is right, it's probably because you're listening to the guitar through monitors hooked up to your speaker during recording, and the latency is throwing off your playing, making it less consistant than it would normally be. If this is the case, turn off input monitoring in sonar, and monitor yourself through headphones plugged directly into the POD while recording. This will cut out the playback latency from your computer and allow you to hear real time what's being recorded. Hope I interpreted your post correctly, and that this helps.

In case that interpretation isn't quite correct...

If the playback is sped up (faster and higher in pitch, like an old LP on a slighly wrong speed), it could be that you recorded at 44.1 kHz but are playing back at 48 kHz. It's directly parallel to playing a record or tape at a slightly faster speed...