Reddit reviews Hosa YMM-232 3.5 mm TRS to Dual 3.5 mm TRSF Y Cable

This is so cool! My daughter has been watching my videos and I've thought about bringing her into the process, but it hasn't gelled yet. Glad to see you have her along for the ride! digital high five

So for the critique:

Yes, the intro is too long. Not by much, but for some reason, some inexplicable reason... it's too long. I looked over it again and I would say fade the audio as soon as the animation reaches the end of the words and fade the graphic to black and then fade in your video. That's my two-cents. Also, save the full length as a subscribe outtro maybe?

Get the poor girl some headphones and a Y-splitter and BOOM you can both hear the game audio. Just scoot your left and her right earphone cup off the ear a bit so you can hear each other too. http://amzn.com/B000068O5G

Honestly the audio quality is really good considering what you are using. Something tells me that is a pretty high quality headset because it's rare to hear audio that clear coming from a headset mic.

The video quality you are going to address with a better webcam so that will be great! Hanging a cheap sheet behind you as a background will help with a few things and you may even want a diffused light shining at you or bouncing off a back wall to illuminate you further. I've noticed the higher the quality the cam, the more light it seems to want.

I will say, if you enjoy doing these, I would probably watch a super-cut highlight of anything funny or exciting that happens. So you may want two series, one a short highlight reel and then one the full video. After a while, if you notice people like the edited version you could drop the full format or just not advertise those as heavily. If you notice people prefer the full versions, just ditch the editing :) For me, I only have so much time in a day and probably can't sit through a 20 minute video even if I like it. The only way I will is if there is alot going on in those 20 minutes and those 20 minutes are compressing down hours and hours and hours of footage and information. Then I feel the length is worthwhile.

I think it's cute, I love that you are getting her involved, and she's gonna love doing this with you for a long time to come. :-D

Here's the first option simplified a bit:

One of these stereo 1/8" splitter (Y) cables.

Two of these 1/8" to RCA cables. Be sure to choose the correct length.

Plug the Y cable into your PC speaker output, the other two connect to it and then to your speakers.

Something like this might work for you. http://www.amazon.com/Hosa-YMM232-6-Inch-Adapter-Male-Dual/dp/B000068O5G

It's meant to work the opposite way, but it seems like it would work the way you want better.

Personally I wouldn't use XLR to XLR. It's a balanced input, whereas the RCA input is not, and this means inside the speakers there will be some amount of circuitry between the two inputs, so you would not be simply chaining them together this way. So it could work, but you are off the beaten bath and it very well might not work.

Instead, I would use splitter cables. (Incidentally, what you have now is technically not a splitter. It is a breakout cable because the two connectors on one end are connected to different things on the other end.) There are basically 3 ways you could do this:

• Get RCA male to dual RCA female splitter cables (like this -- you will need two of them) and plug one into the RCA input of each speaker. Then run male RCA to male RCA cables (like these) between speakers.
  
• Similarly, get RCA female to dual RCA male cables (like this -- again, you will need two), and use them with RCA extension cables (like this).
  
• Alternatively, split the cable while it is still 3.5mm (with a cable like this) and then get another 3.5mm to dual RCA breakout cable like you already have.
  
  The first method uses the splitter cable "backwards" but that doesn't really matter, and RCA male-to-male cables are easier to find than extension cables (like the second method). The cables for the last method are available very widely but it might be more or less convenient depending on how you want to place the speakers and route the cables.

I don't know about using two headset mics concurrently, so I can't offer much help there. But you could always do a two mic setup hardware wise, and have that go into your mic port. The best solution would be with a mini-mixer so you could control the levels of each mic separately before it hits your computer. Or if you're going the cheap route, you could always just try a Y adapter. https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-YMM232-6-Inch-Adapter-Male-Dual/dp/B000068O5G