Losing connection to usb mic on garage band

When using Garage Band do you find that it periodically loses connection to the USB mic? If I reboot I can sometimes get it back after a few tries. Any other suggestions as rebooting isn't working this time. Is there a way to avoid losing the connection for no reason?
The only thing I did was switch over to Audicity for a minute to record then came back to garage band and the mic was gone, it wont record. No settings were changed.

Yes it is. Shows up everywhere just under preferences in Audio/MIDI it says 0 MIDI detected. But when I take the USB out of the mic and put it back it has the pop up "disconnected USB mic" and same when I do with computer, but still not registering sound. Mute on mic is fine. Nothing changed. Just stopped. This happened to me a few times before and rebooting worked. So far not so much. Nothings working.

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Ram: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M 1024 MB
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Default System Output Device:       Yes
Manufacturer:                                  Apple Inc.
Output Channels:                             2
Current SampleRate:                      48000
Transport:                                        Built-in
Yeti Stereo Microphone:
Default Input Device:                      Yes
Default Output Device:                    Yes
Input Channels:                               2
Manufacturer:                                 Blue Microphones
Output Channels:                            2
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How is it that the flash recorders will work and not comp sound but the mic i'd buy for the same price and usb into the mac does?
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