Pop is created at start of recording intermittently

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I’m recording voice with a Yeti Blue USB mic on an HP laptop running Windows 10 (Audacity 2.4.2). From time to time, when I punch in to continue a recording, there’s a spike in the waveform and a pop in the audio. It sounds exactly like the sound of a tone arm needle being harshly dropped on an LP (for those of you old enough to catch that reference). I can delete it without a problem, but it’s annoying and sometimes I don’t notice them as I’m recording an hour-long track with multiple punch-ins (I’m reading newspapers and magazines for the blind). I’m running at a project rate of 48000 Hz.

Any help that anyone can give would be appreciated.

Here’s a pic of the spike:
Audio pop.png

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I can tell you what that looks like - it looks like the microphone switching on.

I’m not sure what you can do about it. Perhaps check that your power settings are set to “always on” for everything (including USB).