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Playing audio/midi tracks live

I hope this is the right forum, if not maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm only researching at this point so I can't tell you what gear I use, because I don't have it yet. But, what I'm hoping to do is record a combination of MIDI and Audio tracks on a computer to be used as backing tracks for live performance. (I perform solo and in a duo).

Record tracks in stereo or mono?

Hi guys, what do you normally do for this? It seems that in all my mixes, even if I pan something 100% to the right, it doesn't sound like it is way over there. Then I listen to a professional song and they just have such a brilliant space that I can't seem to achieve.

Vocals?
Electric Guitar?
Bass? (I imagine yes for this one)
Acoustic Guitar?

Cubase playing recorded audio tracks too soon

Cubase LE. I have been recording on this computer in this project just fine, and then yesterday, whenever I would record something, it would play the clip slightly too soon. Notice I say too "soon" and not too "fast." It's the correct speed and if I nudge it forward a hair, it right in sync, but it's annoying as hell. I haven't been able to google anyone with this issue.