Hello, I have been using Audacity for a while and only recently have I been hearing strange static noises. In the file you can hear right at the beginning.
I have already tested on OBS to see if it is my microfoon, but that doesn’t seem to be the problem.
My microfoon is a RODE podmic connected with usb-c.
Can anyone help?
The Rode Podmic is an analog XLR microphone according to the web site. No USB C.
Do you have a microphone preamplifier?
I hear the noise. It’s mostly low pitched like thunder. I don’t recognize it. If OBS doesn’t record it. I’m out of ideas.
I know this is silly, but have you tried a clean shutdown of Windows? Hold Shift while you shut down. Not regular Shutdown and not Restart.
Still noisy?
Koz
Those are dropouts, not “static”
So dropout noise that’s not always there, in Audacity but not in OBS, and with an analog microphone that somehow connects to USB-C.
I’ll be following this message thread.
Koz
Its the RODE podmic USB version.
Thanks I will look into this!
Post back if you hit something that works.
Did you do something fresh or start a new program or application right about the time that your problems started? One of the things that makes personal computer troubleshooting so darn much fun is it’s open ended. Audacity has to battle its way past all the other applications on Earth that use sound—and some of them leave their settings laying around even if you close them. That’s why computer clean-shutdown is so handy.
Koz
Hello, what seemed to have helped is putting my windows powersettings to “Best performance”. It now only occurs once every like 10 minutes of recording and I just simply rerecord that part when it happens.
How old is the camera? If you can make the problems come and go with power settings, then the batteries may be getting tired. Do you get the same problems with the camera plugged into wall power with the charger? Even if it doesn’t solve the problem, if it changes a lot that can tell you where the problem is living.
Koz
Hello, I can hear the sound too. Is your mic properly grounded?
It might not be. It is attached to a woodendesk.
How can i properly ground it?
Open up the XLR connectors, both ends should have the ground line soldered into the connector body as well.
See, typically pins 2 and 3 are connected together so the cable is “balanced” (i.e., records both in left and right channels), while pin 1 is always the ground/shield/negative line. For the connector to be shielded, pin 1 should be connected to the connector body as well – that’s the reason for the small copper dot in the locking.
Experimenting with ground connections will not solve your dropouts problem and may make your mic dangerous 
. Try a free audio-editor which has multi-core support, like OCENaudio: it’s less less likely to have dropouts than Audacity, which is only using one of your cores.
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