Output sound was picked by external microphone

hi everyone,
i am using Macbook air 2011 mid version and i am trying to using the microphone for chatting.
but here is a problem. i plug the iphone headphone into the MBA and try to record to see if the sound is ok or not. however, i keep pick up my MBA system sound(i was playing music in itune and the "headphone" pick it up). the headphone keep pick up my sound and the computer sound. Does it just picking my voice instead of togther with the system sound??

Hi everyone,
Thanks so much for your input! I solved this problem on my laptop... I signed up to this website just to write about how I went about solving this issue in hopes that I can help even one musician out there in the world... I literally could not record for
about a year and had almost given up on this issue :(
Also, I should note that Priestest's solution is probably the one you want to try first. I only went about it another way because I encountered the same issue as VietTrung:
"The "sound" window should still be open, then go to "playback" tab,right click on speakers and left click on properties. Then click on the "levels" tab, but I
don't see any microphone section! Help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(("
Me too. I'm not sure why I couldn't see the microphone section in the levels tab, but when I did a search online, I found this:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70822&selectarea=SUPPORT&tempselected=5 Pretty interesting read. If you are curious, query for "MIGR-70822" online to find out more about this issue.
---- My solution -----
I am using a recording software by the name of Reaper (I'm thinking other softwares may work too, I haven't tried Audacity but that's the most my friends use). I went to Options> Preferences > Audio > Devices > and Selected "ASIO" for my driver.
The default option selected was "WaveOut" which gave me a HUGE DELAY.
It gave me no ASIO drivers are found! But a quick search online will tell you you can download ASIO4all. Restart Reaper and go back to Devices menu to select ASIO.
If you are still having problems after selecting ASIO, I highly recommend this forum:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=21590 (look at Diogene's post please)
--- Results ---
There was a huge difference between "WaveOut" and "ASIO" and I can record now.
I really hope that helps some musicians out there in the world. Recording is a huge motivation to improve your skills :)
References:
ASIO4all: http://www.asio4all.com/

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