ISight with iChat kind of working

I have a brand new iSight and a brand new Mac Mini. I'm using a Dell keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor. My entire family has Macs with iSights. When I log into iChat, I get a great picture of them, and can hear them fine, and they get a great picture of me, but they hear only garbled junk out of their speakers. I've ensured the iChat and system preferences are set to the iSight microphone, and am getting microphone input levels on the video screen. I've made sure the cables are plugged in properly. I've Re-booted the computer and programs a couple of tiumes after making various changes. I've tried taking the iSight into a local Apple Store and the mic worked fine on garageband and iChat.
What am I doing wrong? I want this to work!

Hello cleanplateclub,
And Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I'd like to know if this same condition happens when you contact family members by voice only. Did you try only audio and what was the result?
Also, you should check your sound input level under the Preferences. You may have it set too high and it's overdriving the microphone at the other end. Also ask your other family members to go to preferences and check their Audio out levels to at least half-way.
Lastly, if nothing else has worked, you might try a seperate microphone and not use the iSight mike. My daughter is on a headset (earphones & chin-mike combo) because when the iMac fan reves up, it gets too noisy.
Do post back and let us know if anything changes.
Respectfully,
Bill Gallagher

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