SD card read/write with Arduino

I'm trying to sample a guitar signal and store it to the SD card. It looks like when the Arduino writes the recorded signal to the SD card it takes up some time. Which means that the input signal gets ignored for awhile. I was hoping that if i could shorten the number of bytes being sent to the card it wouldn't ignore the sinput signal to a point that it wouldn't be noticed by the user. If this is to vauge I will gladly go into more detail later. Thanks for taking interest ::slight_smile: