Mic processing programs?

[AnRK]

Mainly directed at jaymz cos I don't know any of the other sound geeks on here, but does anyone know of a program which you can use to process your microphone with before it's used by any programs such as TS? My mics very muffled sounding and a little bump in the upper mids would help it come through alot better, that and a bit of general compression and stuff would probably help get rid of annoying peaking sounds through voip and keep the volume consistent (obviously).

Tried having a look about on google, but can't really find what I'm looking, for, there seem to be some basic effects in the creative tools but there doesn't seem to be any way of keeping them on when your not in the actual program setting them...