mouth one “shaka” away from pop filter
I wrote that and everybody gets it wrong.
It’s one Shaka from the microphone…
…and a power fist from the blast filter…
Nobody will stop breathing if you get it wrong, but if you have no trouble making volume and noise, nobody cares (except I sob myself to sleep every night).
I don’t think it’s peaking and overload, either, but you can turn on View > Show Clipping to be sure. Audacity will put thin red lines in the blue waves everywhere it thinks there is serious overload damage.
Please note that if we get to two weeks or more without resolving this, the recommendation is to stop using the computer to record your voice.
Have you been through the pre-printed list?..that I can’t find right this second.
What else is running on the machine? There should be nothing else running while you record. In Windows 10 you can do a thorough shutdown with Shift-Shutdown. Wait a handful of seconds and then Start. That resets and cleans many more things than straight Restart (and takes a good deal longer).
Is the click in exactly the same place every time you play it? Drag-select about 3-5 seconds on both sides of a good, healthy click and post it in WAV format on the forum.
Scroll down from a forum text page > Attachments > Add files.
Do any of them happen over silence or very quiet passages?
I may gracefully back up and leave this to an actual Windows elf (which I’m not).
This is the clicky list for the Mac people.
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#mac_crackle
Koz