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Good evening everyone. This is my first post and I appreciate any responses given. I could not find an article with a similar setup as mine so I apologize in advance if this has already been posted elsewhere or if this is the wrong category. I am embarking on a diy fix for my sons gaming headset to avoid throwing out a good headset and buying a new one. I have dissected the wire and plan on re soldering the wires to the jack but I’m not sure which wires go where. I have labeled the wires and the locations on the jack. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! hopefully I attached the picture correctly
Hi Andrew! Unfortunately I cannot see pictures… Maybe you can give it another try to upload them. In general I can recommend you these steps like shown in this video to solder the cable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEsW8aON… Burning the plastic protection layer of the wires and putting a little bit of solder onto them helps a lot in soldering easier. And if you don’t connect the wires on the correct place in the first process, don’t worry. I should’t damage anything! Greets, Christoph Update (06/22/2020) Yes now I can see your photos! I found this wiring diagram for headsets: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/fd/53/…
In my opinion, the bare red and gold wire are audio ground and belong to the 4 on the jack on your photo. In the white insulated cable should be the microphone wires: golden copper to 4 (GND) and the red wire to the 1
I’m in the exact same situation as Andrew… fixing the 4 connector 3.5mm pin. One issue using the above CTIA diagram is I’m unsure if this device is wired per the CTIA standard or not. Note this interface wire has inline controls and a dual head…in addition to the 3.5mm 4 connector, a USB port (which the box seems to suggest is only a power to the LEDs?). But CTIA is a start, and if buttons don’t work, can try to fix that by reversing the mic and ground. After stripping the wires, just like Andrew’s image, I found just 4 connectors in the line that terminates at the 3.5mm interface pin. I suspect the grounds for the mic & left & right audio were unified prior to the terminus of the 3.5mm jack wire, and by convention, the bare copper strands housed in the white inner insulation - likely joined at the inline controller. It is logical then to deduce that the other connector inside this white insulation( a red insulated line) is the mic. Thus, I suspect he blue and green lines outside the white insulation are audio. Blue seems to be right and green left.
