Why does my USB headset stop working after an hour?

I've tried both a standard headset with USB adapter AND a USB headset directly in both a Intel iMac and a PowerMac G5 and every occasion after approxiamtely one hour the mic feature begins to fail. The headphones seem unaffected.
Any clues?

Hi Christopher, I have this same problem with my USB headset. I have a dongle that lets you plug in a headset to the back of it. It works great for an hour, then everyone tells me I sound like a robot. I can hear them fine. I unplug and plug back in and it works fine again.
Did you ever figure this out?
I'm running 10.8.5 and it happens in G+Hangouts, Go To Meeting, and Adobe Connect.
Weird. Not terribly taxing, but annoying nonetheless...

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          2 GB RAM
Video Information:
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System Software:
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Disk Information:
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                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    disk0s2 (disk0s2) <not mounted>: 59.81 GB
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
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          Radha (disk2s2) /Volumes/Radha: 1.81 TB (1.73 TB free)
          disk2s3 (disk2s3) <not mounted>: 189.89 GB
          Boot OS X (disk2s4) <not mounted>: 134.2 MB
FireWire Information:
Kernel Extensions:
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          com.protech.NoSleep          Version: 1.3.3
Problem System Launch Daemons:
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Internet Plug-ins:
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User Internet Plug-ins:
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               3%          EtreCheck
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               1%          Terminal
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