Photo Booth Sound Recording is Pitched up toooo high...

Can anyone help me figure out why the pitch of my Voice is too high when playing back Photo Booth Videos? It just started doing it about a week ago.
It does it using my External Mic or while using the internal mic as well.
Thank you for your time,
benvoice

Welcome to Discussions, benvoice
benvoice wrote:
Can anyone help me figure out why the pitch of my Voice is too high when playing back Photo Booth Videos? It just started doing it about a week ago.
It does it using my External Mic or while using the internal mic as well.
Thank you for your time,
benvoice
Unless you can talk in a lower pitch while you record, I have no suggestions.
Your iMac's built-in iSight has no microphone, so there is nothing iSight related that will help.
If you don't get the answer you need here, searching or posting in this iMac forum may help:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1110
EZ Jim
Mac Pro Quad Core (Early 2009) 2.93Ghz Mac OS X (10.6.6); MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2009) 2.26GHz (10.6.6)
LED Cinema Display; G4 PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11); iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9); External iSight; iPod4touch4.2.1

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is anyone else having this problem?
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