Not recording

I used home studio 2004 for about a year and with it used the tascam us-122
recently I bought a PRESONUS Firepod and Sonar 4 producers edition.
I hooked the firepod up with sonar and it reconized the interface and I got it so you can choose all the different inputs and outputs for the firepod but it does not pick up any thing into the program. when you tap the mic you can hear it through the firepod headphone jack but it doesn't go through into the program. I dont know what could be the problem. I tried messing with all the different audio stuff like the ASIO and that but none of them changed anyhting. I dont know what the problem is
-Joe Buras

Firebox has a knob near the right side called "Mix". If you're hearing sound, but not getting any response from Sonar, the knob is probably turned to include "input" rather than just "Playback." Turn it completely clockwise to "Playback"--now you're only hearing what comes back from Sonar. Next, make sure that you've clicked the input monitoring button like WFT said. Next make sure that you've set your track output to Firepod 1-2 Out or to Master and set the output on Master to Firepod 1-2 Out. Now you should be hearing yourself running through Sonar and coming out the headphones. There may be some latency--it's why you might want to switch the Mix knob to include input when you're recording with pre-existing tracks. Finally, to record, make sure you arm the track and press the record button.

I'm generally very happy with it. I'm having a weird flanging/echo that only shows up sporatically and only when I'm not playing back or recording, so I'm trying to sort that one out. But the recorded sound is great with low latency (right now I'm doing 10 msec and recording 8 tracks simultaneously).

For monitoring using headphones, there's a "Mixer" knob that allows you to monitor live feed only, SONAR processed only (which includes tracks that you're listening to through input monitoring--i.e., you can hear what you're currently playing (at whatever latency you're doing), including any SONAR signal processing), or a mix of the two, with the ability to vary the relative volume of each. I tend to only do 100% "Playback"--i.e., SONAR processed, including whatever I'm doing now.