How do I minimize white noise/static in my tracks?

Hi. Maybe try to lower your input (during recording), as the mic probably enhances noise (surroundings) during high level recordings.
You do not need to record very hot, if you use 24 bit (if not, you should be).
Best of luck.
 

Thanks for the responses! Yes, it definitely is white noise. It sounds like a constant fuzz/hissing in the background, and also I am in a silent room when recording. So to see where the noise is coming from, I lowered the levels on my mic almost nearly down, and the noise is still there, so this would mean it's coming from inside mic? also, how do I check the gain levels? Again, sorry but I'm really new to this.

What are you plugging the Samson into? What are you using for your recordings - desktop? Laptop?

I am recording my Samson with my laptop.

The USB digital signal should be pretty much immune to electrical interference, but a faulty USB connection could transmit electrical (analog) noise to the microphone from the computer. Connections can also act as antennas and pick up radiatingadiating electrical noise in the environment. Switching USB cords and cleaning the connections is worth a try. A laptop on battery has no ground connection which is a potential problem. See if plugging it in helps. Try the microphone attached to a known good computer. Try the microphone in a completely different building. See if you can borrow another microphone and try that. Download Audacity and see if you have the same problem in that application (long shot) and if not then you can worry about some kind of software issue. Some people use the Audacity noise reduction, but there are better applications if you have the money. If the noise follows the microphone everywhere no matter how it is connected, there is a good chance that the microphone will have to be replaced.  That is probably going to be a better solution than trying to apply noise reduction to every recording.
 
http://www.podtopia.net/gettingstarted/removenoise.shtml
 

I recently had a similar problem and wanted to comment on what the problem was and the solution in my case. Maybe it might help someone. 
 
First off, I got a new PC and rearranged my recording setup. I have a Toneport KB37. When rearranging everything where I decided to put my Toneport KB37 the USB Cable that come with the KB37 was not long enough. So I had a usb midi cable that's about 3 times the length of the cable that was made for use with the KB37. 
 
So I got everything setup, I kept getting pops, clicks, hum, static and my first thought was maybe it was the PC setup or Latency or drivers. It was none of that in my case. 
 
Long story short, I switched back to the shorter cable that came with the KB37 and that completely fixed the problem. 
 
What I had failed to realize or think of when I switched to that really long USB cable was the fact that my Toneport KB37 is powered from the USB Port, it doesn't have an independent power supply, so for whatever reason, possible voltage drop not powering or carrying the signal, using the really long USB Cable was my entire problem.  
 
I even tried using the regular cable and a small usb extension cable only adding about 3 feet extra length and still had the problem, only it was not as bad.
 
So at least in my case switching to the factory length cable that came with the KB37 directly plugged into the USB port solved all of my problems. 
 
Just wanted to mention my situation in case someone else might run into this issue in the future and not think of it. 
 
 

I would've suggested that perhaps your mic was picking up fan noise, very easy to do with a condenser mic, but I guess having the issue with the mic turned off (is that what you mean by silent?) rules that out.

One more thing to try... that is, if you mute one track at a time and the noise goes away, you know it is related to something in the signal chain of that track.  Sometimes plugins add noise just being on and not set correctly.
 
Jim