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Make sure Audacity is trying to record from your microphone and not a software device or process. What does the little window next to the microphone symbol say?

Koz

There is one other troubleshooting technique. Drill down to the Windows sound control panels and look for the microphone. There should be a little dancing sound meter in that panel. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/Win7-SoundControlPanel.jpg That's from Win7. That's a half-way point. Next fai...

There was a recent poster who cycled through this twice. He had noisy recordings and it seemed to cure itself. Boop. Worked perfectly. We were just bidding each other farewell, drive safe, say hello for us when it died again. They had a complicated setup, so we were looking over a sea of devices and...

Thanks for all your help.

You're entirely welcome. But since you didn't fix anything, we're betting how long before it fails again.

My bet is it will wait for a critical recording opportunity and then, Boom! Right into the bin.

Koz

Just to cover it. You should be speaking into the side grill just up from the Blue company name. YetiFront.jpg The pattern selector on the back should be on position 3 which looks like a heart or kidney bean. The Gain knob just above it may work best almost all the way up. Max it out and then back d...

Apparently, it should say USB Advanced Audio Device. That's the Yeti.

Koz

Audacity gets its sound from the computer, not from the microphone. Did you Zoom or Skype recently? Both of those take over your sound services and sometimes don't let go. Games? That can do it, too. Did you clean restart? Unplug the Yeti. Shift+Shutdown. Wait for it to clear everything and stop. Th...

What's the work-around? Switch to Loudness and then back to RMS? This only happens if you used Loudness last time and RMS this time, right?

Koz

I think I found it in the ACX help center.


Koz

from one channel to another, and back again cyclically

How long is one cycle?

That can be disorienting to listen to, particularly on headphones. Very little in nature sounds like that. What's the application. Science fiction theater?

Koz