Recording problem - tracks out of sync??

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"sam" <sam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:IzJTd.50947$Am3.1582298@news20.bellglobal.com...
>I have a recording problem, I'm recording with a firepod into adobe
>audition
> 1.5.. everything was working fine for a week up until yesterday when every
> now
> about half the time when i record something it ends up all being out of
> sync..
> i record 8 tracks, 1 guitar, 2 bass, 3 overhead, 4 overhead, 5 bass, 6
> snare,
> 7 rack tom, 8 floor tom. when everything gets messed up, tracks 1,2,7,8
> play
> fine together and tracks 3,4,5,6 play fine together but put them together
> and its a mess. the computer is a 2.2 ghz athlon with 512 megs of dual
> channel
> 400mhz ram. any ideas? i'm going to install cubase le tonight and see if
> that
> changes anything.. sometimes we'll record something and it'll be fine for
> five
> minutes and then it'll go out of sync just for the last minute, sometimes
> nothing goes out of sync, sometimes its out of sync from the beginning..
> i don't get it, it just seems purely random. any ideas?

That is freakin' weird... that is, if you mean the recorded tracks drift out
of sync on playback. Are you certain it isn't a latency problem with regard
to monitoring? Maybe you're hearing existing tracks playing back at a
different degree of latency than any new tracks you're recording, and so
when you play it back with the new track, that one's now out of sync?

Neil Henderson