Sound quality changing when program is closed

I have an intermittent problem where my audition will be recording audio fine - no background noise and clear audio. The audio wave will look like the picture below. You can see in the quiet parts there's no interference.

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Then I'll close the program and come back to it later and when i try to record again it's suddenly picking up background noise and the audio will sound tinny and distant. The audio wave looks like the picture below here.

The problem just pops up out of nowhere and it won't go away until i turn the computer off and leave it for a few days. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's the only thing that makes it stop. It's a seemingly random problem.

I'm recording through a Neewer W-700 michrophone and a behringer UMC22.