My headphone act like a mic

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I'm using a view sonic computer it does not have a headphone jack only a mic jack....I plug my headphones in threw the red and white audio out slots in the back but when I go to record a track the headphones as a mic so it records the beat and everything..

Is there a way to fix this if so how?
 
Headphones/speakers and mics are exactly the same thing: a coil of wire that moves a diaphram.

So as you found out, a headphone plugged into a mic jack can actually be used as a mic.
(now don't you wish you hadn't slept through science class???)

The mic jack is an INPUT; you can't get sound out of it.

How are you getting sound out of your computer now??? Since you didn't give ANY equipment details (bad bad), I'm gonna guess you have a pair of speakers plugged into the soundcard and you also want to add a pair of headphones..... right???
 
a pair of headphones over my nylon classical was my first way into home recording ...all by chance....i thought at the time that i had stumbled onto something akin to the discovery of electricity..:D
 
TimOBrien said:
Headphones/speakers and mics are exactly the same thing: a coil of wire that moves a diaphram.

So as you found out, a headphone plugged into a mic jack can actually be used as a mic.
(now don't you wish you hadn't slept through science class???)

The mic jack is an INPUT; you can't get sound out of it.

How are you getting sound out of your computer now??? Since you didn't give ANY equipment details (bad bad), I'm gonna guess you have a pair of speakers plugged into the soundcard and you also want to add a pair of headphones..... right???
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I stated in my first post that there is no headphone jack and that I have the headphones plugged into the red and white audio out jack....The only jack it has is a mic jack
 
Buy an audio interface instead of using your computer's onboard sound device.

Just rereading your post. Are you using a mic? Are you hearing your tracks bleed onto your vocal track?? If so, check to see if your headphones are the vented or semi-closed type. You can do this by playing your track through the headphones and cover the earpieces with your hands to block the sound. If you still hear your track, then you need another type of headphone. Try Closed Back headphones.

Cheers,
 
You have no speaker outputs on the back panel of your computer's motherboard?
 
and of course, he won't ever come back to say thanks.

I only threw that headphone suggestion out there because someone on another forum a nearly identical circumstance and that was the fix.

Oh well...
 
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