Closed Lid use with Internal Microphone

Is it possible to configure the internal microphone so that I can use it when I'm running my MacBook Pro with the lid closed? I close the lid and attach the MacBook to a large external monitor and still want to use Skype.

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The internal microphone (and speakers) are still active when in clamshell mode but in my experience it picks up a lot of 'noise' and vibration from the MBP itself and isn't very effective for speech. I use an external microphone (MicFlex) or the one in my external camera (Logitech) and they work well for video conferencing.

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before, that the sound was coming out of both left
and right speakers of notebook. We have yet to get an
isight video camera , and have only used the Internal
Microphone. This is a Stereo Internal Microphone,
right? The left speaker works with everything else,
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