Internal mic/garage band

Hi. I'm wondering if anyone has had trouble with a macbook's internal mic for recording a vocal in garagband? I thought maybe it was the mic itself but it seems to work okay in other apps. But in GB no matter the volume setting when recording or distance from mic it sounds----crappy! Distorted etc...is there some setting within GB I should be looking at? I'm not trying to get professional quality - just scratch vocal/demo (as I had done with G4 iBook and GB). Thanks for your help.
Bob

i know that this is an old post, but i just experienced this problem with my new macbook. i noticed the poor obscenely poor quality of the internal mic in garageband would kick in after about 7 seconds of recording. in system preferences under the sound tab and the input tab, i unchecked "use ambient noise reduction". the g4 powerbooks (which is what i owned before) did not have that option. so unchecking that option seemed to help my problem...

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