I loose the ability to hear others on voice and I sound like a robot, help?

[PhoebeDesmons]

I updated my mac to the new operating system yosemite. I updated and installed the newest firestorm viewer and after a short time of being on voice with people or being in the range of people on voice my sound input goes silent and everyone who can hear me if I'm talking says I sound like a static robot. I'll have to stop and pull my headset USB out of the port and plug it back in to reset it, but it's a short time until it does it again.

My preferences are already set to input and output for this head set. There isn't any sound drivers I'm aware of needing to update since it's included in the system updates I've been doing? Not sure.

I'm usually in a skype call when this happens, haven't tried it without. 

I also noticed the vivox logs from voice that would be left on my computer ( I would need to delete them after a while otherwise my sound quality on itunes would degrade if I had too many of those files created) are NO longer showing up on my computer. 

I'm wondering if that has anything to do with that.

Help?

[Lindal Kidd]

Bandwidth issues or software conflicts is my guess.  My best advice is, "don't use Skype and SL voice at the same time."