Static after first recording

I’ve been using Audacity do do voiceover without a worry for about three months and yesterday I started getting a pretty intense static line running through my recordings. I’ve been working to fix it for the better part of the past two days, doing everything from reinstalling audacity, my preamp, shutting everything down, making sure all input/output lines are correct(and clean), and checking for outside interference/noises. Going in circles now. Working one day, the next, notta.

However, I’ve discovered when I leave it alone or reinstall everything, my first recording is fine. Then, when I go to do a second recording, static is back. A big head scratcher!!! Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Post some of it. Post no-performance silence and voice.

Use this as the recipe. You can use any words. You don’t have to deal with Catskill Cows. Read down the blue links. They’re very short.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html

Koz

Sometimes noise has signatures or leaves tell-tail damage. For example, there is a USB sound error that we can recognize from across the room.

Koz