Please help me...I've bought this card after reading a lot about pci based cards and something isn't right. It just doesn't record well. My old card was a Audigy Platinum EX 2. I am using the same mic, the same cables, and I've tested them all at a friends house to see if they still work fine and they do. I'm not so sure the card is bad but maybe it's not configured well, or maybe I need a new component (IE preamp)...but the thing has built in preamps, and my mic has phanton power also. I'd like to exchange this thing but I don't think they'll let me cause it's been over 30 days now. Basically while recording, it sounds like it's clipping all the time and it's not. The volume of the voice being recorded is shaky and dB levels seems to vary a lot for no apparent reason.

Please help with any knowledge you have.

Thanks
Ghost