Ever since I’ve first downloaded Audacity, I noticed that I could never get more than a measure of a note, that I sing, without the audio stopping. Like, I’d be singing perfectly fine and then all of a sudden, it’ll quickly fade out and I have to stop singing or else Audacity simply won’t pick up my voice. I tested this in other software like Reaper and I get the same result, so now I’m wondering if this is a issue with my PC or mic? My mic is relatively new and in great condition (Steelseries Arctis Nova). Please help me! 
Make sure Windows “enhancements” are turned OFF.
Any sustained musical note is seen as “noise” and noise reduction software leaps into action and deletes it.
Koz
I turned it OFF, and Audacity still won’t let me sustain my notes.
Ok, how do I prevent this from happening?
If you turned Windows Enhancement off and it’s still happening, then the effect is coming from somewhere else. Do you use Skype, Zoom, Meetings, Games or other program that uses sound? Make sure they’re really off and not lounging in the background. Then do a clean shutdown.
Those are the easy solutions. That help any? Your microphone, interface, or sound mixer could be doing it, too.
Nobody wants to sing theatrical songs. Everybody with a pulse wants to Zoom and they all need noise reduction and sound processing. So that’s how this goes.
Koz
I just disabled all applications that use my microphone, used Task Manager to shut down all background apps that also use my microphone, and then did a clean shutdown. Somehow, no luck. It must be my microphone then, right? And if so, how would I know? I need to be able to record sustained notes since theatrical singing is what I want to do, and right now, I can’t without the audio cutting out.
There can be a second layer of “audio enhancements”, e.g. MaxxAudio, DTS.
Unless it’s my condenser on the fritz happened to me too on both my .00 and .01 weeks.
You put deep filter 2 or 3 AI on it and your recording seems to cut off on some of your lisps like instead of mix it would say mick but if your mic input jack is very hissy like mine even hissing when a mic isn’t plugged in you have to use the AI.
But the thing is on previous AI using versions it all worked fine in keeping the lisps in. I’d say it is a legit bug but is it Audacity AI or Audacity program I don’t know.
It’s covered above. The headset in use has active noise cancellation.
Koz
Hey everyone! I found the issue: my microphone 
. I got a new one and now I don’t have the issue anymore. Thank you all for the help!
I have the same issue on a brand new laptop, and it’s definitely not my mic. I can plug it into an older laptop right beside the new one and it works flawlessly. Very frustrating.
The “audio enhancements” can be on by default … https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/disable-audio-enhancements
I’ve disabled this, but to no avail. 
Thanks.
Start at the top of this message thread. We covered a lot of ground. A favorite one is keeping Zoom “napping” in the background and forgetting it’s there. Zoom microphone processing includes noise reduction.
Multi-Player Games can do that, too.
Google your brains out. "[MyNewLaptop] sound processing.
Audacity does not do this out of the box.
Koz
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