Okey dokey, so here's my recording set up for my guitar:

Guitar ---> POD ---> Mixing Board ---> Laptop Mic Input ---> Audacity

Somewhere along that line, something is fucking up. You see, while recording the volume gradually fluctuates, and a chorus like effect is added to the track. This only happens when I record, when the guitar is being played back through the Laptop everything sounds fine. I troubleshooted everything, and it all seems fine. I also tried recording into a different program and I had the same issue. I'm pretty sure it's the Laptop, but I don't know what's causing it. Any ideas?

Eh, avoid laptop recording inputs. Even though the sound quality might be passable for some purposes you usually get too much latency and everyhing's off time. How are you monitoring? Through audacity or directly the sound card? If the sound card directly routes the input signal to the output it probably sounds different than when going through the AD/DA converters and software (do laptop sound devices so this? I don't even know).

What are you using the mixer for? I don't see any purpose for that since you have the pod there anyway.

Yea dude, get rid of the mixer...thats what the POD is for.

DON'T USE AUDACITY!!!

The weird chorus effect happened to me also....

Use Reaper....it's free and is a lot better....a bit like cubase...

Nah, the POD has too much bite for my taste with out the mixer, and I also use it for microphones and stuff. I'll try downloading Reaper and seeing if that fixes it, and I use a Laptop to record because it's all I have.

REAPER is awesome. I use it for most of my recording.