Sound Blaster ZX mic muffled and low volume

Hey guys!
I'm having a bit of trouble with the microphone bundled with the ZX card. The ACM mic that is.
I'm not sure if it's the card or the mic, but my problem is that when recording or talking on Skype/TeamSpeak, my voice if very low (even tho I have all sliders maxed out) and it's muffled. It basically sounds like I'm talking in to a pillow.
If I connect the mic to the built-in Realtek crap on my motherboard, the sound recorded is sooo much clearer though.
I got to have both the volume and the mic boost maxed out in the Sound Blaster control panel to even hear myself at all. If I turn the noise reduction off the sound gets a bit clearer, but the static noise gets so bad it's unbearable.
Is my card faulty or is this a driver issue?

I have exactly the same problem. On Teamspeak my friends were complaining that I was barely audible and sounded muffled/distorted. I tried plugging my logitech desktop mic into the soundblaster, but this didn't solve the issue - so I presume the problem is not with the ACM mic. I also tried playing with the settings in the control panel, but this had little effect. Increasing the boost to 30db improves it slightly, but then the mc also starts picking up my fans and even movement from the headphone cable. Possibly a driver issue???
Like you I have had to resort to plugging my microphone into the onboard sound card.
In fact I've just realised that this problem is being discussed in another thread: http://forums.creative.com/showthrea...=699346&page=2

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