I am using a blue ice microphone. I notice the volume is always quiet when speaking directly into the microphone and have to amplify +18db to get a half decent sound. Even then when I upload my videos they are a lot quieter than other similar ones. As mentioned I use a blue ice mic so I assume all the volume goes through there when I talk but does any audio go through the Mac? My macs left speaker does not work so sound only comes out of the right side so is this the issue or is there something I am not doing right? Thanks