Sure sounds like an input monitoring issue to me.
Every Soundcard now a day has some sort of way of using live monitoring, input monitoring.
Well this is great for some instances. but in the cases of using guitar sims, you end up hearing a blend of live monitoring and VST guitar sim.
Just search around in your hardware settings. look for input monitoring. turn it off.
The problem there lays in the routing. You shouldn't be hearing the clean signal from your M Audio C 6000.
You should be hearing it within sonar using Input echo and the tracks Rec widget.