New Tracks Not In Sync

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Hi. I tried to use my new PreSonus Firepod with Cool Edit Pro V.2. I was doing a simple enough recording. Adding a guitar track to a previously edited stereo mix drum master. The drums were on track 1 (in stereo) and I was recording the guitar in stereo to tracks 2 & 3 . I'm running Win XP and have an on-board sound card to listen with. Anyways, when my guitarist laid down a track, it sounded good monitoring through the headphones. However, when I play this back, the guitar tracks are not in sync with the drums. I thought at first the guitarist's timing was off, but we tried another take and the same result happened.

I don't know what to do here. Maybe I have some settings that need tweaking, or maybe I am just doing something wrong. Any suggestions before our next session???

Kelhard
 
Was the drum track a midi track or audio track? If the former, convert to audio first before playing/track along side it.
 
It was an audio track. Recorded @ 16 bit/44.1k. Maybe the settings on the Firepod software needs to be the same as the session/recording.
 
Found the problem.

It was a problem with my latency settings. I set it down to 3.5ms and all is good...well sorta. See the other post I put up.
 
New at recording, period!

I'm brand new at recording; using AA; did guitar track first, then vocal according to what I was hearing in the headphones, then when I played both, my voice is way ahead in timing. I know this is simple for some of ya, but help! My objective is recording my songs and developing the harmony as well; then eventually burning to CD's so I can teach my band the songs.
 
You may want to try this : goto Option>Setting/F4>Multitrack>correct for drift in recording and correct for start sync in recording. May help.
 
Don't know if anyone has the same problem but Audition's default sample rate is 48k, when you import 44.1k audio it might get sped up or slowed down. if you go to file>convert Sample Type, you can change the sample rate to the same your recording in. That could be a problem if your audio track is at 44.1k and using the internal computer clock and you are recording a 48k source from the firepod clock. When the 48k is played back with the 44.1k from the same clock then there will be a deffinate timing/pitch shift.

If that helps great, sorry if it's not your problem; just one that I've noticed that has similar symptoms.
 
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