Electric guitar recording "flanges" in and out

ok im haveing a huge problem. everytime i go to record a guitar part the sound does this flange typ thing with the sound and volume of the guitar. it starts out normal and then the volume level just drops to next to nothing and it sounds all flangy. how in the heck do i get this to stop. ive read at several places to try n find out what to do and none of them seem to be explaining the same EXACT problem as im having. im extremely new to this adpbe audition 3.0 and im so comfused as to what this could b caused by. can somwone pleaaaassseee tell my what i need to do. im not tryin to do any fancy stuff just record a simple guitar(myself) on one track trhough my compaq presario cq62 running windows 7. plzz help me!!!

My instinct is that, to answer your question, we're going to need some pretty accurate detail about HOW you're recording your guitar.
The sort of "flanging" effect you describe is done by playing with the phase on your material. The "fade in fade out" sounds almost like your guitar music is getting to your computer twice but with the absolute phase drifting a bit so that sometimes it's in phase and doubling the level--and other times it's slipping out of phase and causing cancellations (ranging from slight--the flanger effect--to almost total).
Exactly how this might happen, I can only guess at--perhaps you're recording "Wave Out" or "What U Hear" instead of the mic in--and using Audition monitoring to feed it.
Anyway, a note of how you're attempting these recordings and what settings you have on the Windows sound panel and Audition monitoring would be a good next step.
Bob

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