ok I used to have bad vox (like ver sion 1.10) heres my system:
1.1ghz athon
A7V mother board
Geforce 2 GTS 64 Mb AGP - display 1
Matrox Mystique PCI - display 2
512Mb pc133 sdram
duel boot- windows XP Pro/windows Me - use windows XP pro to play AH
soundblaster Live!
Microsoft FF 2 joystick
my vox problem was solved when I updated SURMIX to SURMIX2, well it wasn't solved as much as reversed, sometimes now when I boot up my machine I have to unclick the mic boost as it is to distorted and loud, where before it used to be too quiet.
It also never drops out during play unlike before the change.
I dont know what happened but I'm happy