[walshemj]

Yes relying on the cheap 5-10$ pos mic built into a lap top wont work you need a proper soundcard and better microphones and turn off the auto level/compression on skype.

Doing it more seriously you might even want to use a separate older machine as a skype drone (ie only runs skype) and feed your audio out from your main machines sound card into that.

I had an initial phone call with a firm and it was obvious that they where clustered round a mac laptop - inaudible and very low quality sound.

[konschubert]

And also improve the acoustics of the room from which you are calling, put some foam on the walls, etc...