Hey, pals. Hopefully this is the right place to post this.
I goofed around in Reaper from time to time from about 2013 to 2015 using Windows 7 64 bit and a Blue Yeti USB mic, mostly doing vocals and acoustic guitar into the thing. I went traveling for a few months, came back, updated Reaper, and now my recordings sound really gross. I got ASIO4All and messed with the settings in every way I could think of, to no avail.
Pertinent info that I'm not well-informed enough to know how to interpret: Sometimes, if I start a clean project, I can record just fine, but if I change the project settings or turn on the metronome, the recording will go haywire again, even if I undo the changes.
If anyone can help me diagnose this, I won't have to record in Audacity and then import everything to Reaper. What a drag that life would be.
In case anyone's a static whisperer, I've uploaded a sample of the junky recording here:
https://soundcloud.com/nocynics/this-sounds-bad