Audacity Forum

So I reduced the CPU usage( only running audacity), got a new USB cable, switched around USB sockets on my Gateway laptop, and still having the same problems. When I wiggle the USB cable at both ends, it doesn't seem to affect anything. However, the intermittent burst of white static are now startin...

During both playback and recording, there are extremely loud, intermittent bursts of high pitch static that last for several seconds and occur randomly. Just to be clear, this is not background static as I have seen many people on here report, this noise completely blocks everything out. I am thinki...