Low/muffled mic audio level on receiving end

Thanks in advance for any help on this iChat issue...
I've got a friend who's complaining that the audio from my mic is "muffled" and very low on his end. He also says that he only has this problem with my audio and not from other people on his Buddy list. I might also add that any non-microphone related audio is fine on his end (e.g. my Nicecast broadcast--the music is loud and clear).
On my end, I've tried both the internal mic and my own mic (with the preamps cranked on my MOTU Firewire interface), and both yield the same results.
FYI... I've checked System Preferences > Sound and made sure that my mic level is hot there, and it peaks at about 0dB. I've also checked iChat's Video menu, and the level is very hot there as well.
Please advise, and thanks again!

Hi tizoast,
Umm, Odd.
You seem to be saying that iChat has the correct Mic/sound input slected in the drop down in iChat > Preferences > Video section > Drop down.
You also see to have the setting in Sytem Preferences > Sound > Input tab.
You say that recording in other apps is ok with this set up and we have looked at the Bit rate of the MIDI device in the post above.
At this time I can not thimk of anything more to try.
I will sleep on this and post again if I think of anything.
Edit: Possibly deleting com.apple.ichat.plist will make iChat reset the readings it is getting from other sources.
Deleting this and restarting ichat recreates the .plist but you lose any saved Status Message, Font style, Bubble colours and other less visible things like Individual sound alerts.
10:26 PM Friday; September 29, 2006
10:23 PM Friday; September 29, 2006

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