[dmbr]

I'm rather confounded by the Creative SOund Blaster Z's control panel only providing the option to apply microphone enhancements like Crystal Voice to mic's plugged into the front or rear panel jack.

I use a USB microphone...might there be any way to get the enhancements working for it? It seems odd that it's not an option.

 

[Oklahoma]

Unfortunately no.  Reason is that the Z's control panel only directly controls the Z.  Using a usb mic bypasses the Z's driver and uses either the default usb audio or the generic ASIO audio driver.  The Creative control panel can only control what is plugged in to the computer through the Z.  The same thing happens when you go the other direction. If you use usb into an external dac it bypasses the processing on the Z so if you wanted to use it in games you would have to use the digital out from the Z into an external dac and not through usb.