Reddit reviews YCS Basics 3 Foot 3.5mm Male to Male 4 Conductor Aux/Headphone Cable

I decided against digikey and went with a combo of Amazon and Ebay. Here's the parts I bought:

>Cheap trrs cable from amazon $5.69

>100 M2 screws from amazon $4.99

>50 M2 spacers from ebay for $4.49

>200 diodes from ebay $3.29

>70 gateron blue switches from switchtop.co for $22.75


I bought 2 pro micros from ebay and 1 from amazon just because I had amazon giftcards and might use the extra pro micro for a numpad.
>pro micro from amazon $8.70

>2 pro micro from ebay $10.98

Kid you not I was just reading the above forum post 5 minutes ago. I just finished buying the wires so here are links to the wires needed.

[CTIA Y-Cable] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D6NPH88/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A6W0O8DQ2720N)

[Headset Splitter] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058DOWH6/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AHV9ORYOUKPWW)

[Stereo Y-Cable] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BB4GUC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

[RCA Stereo Audio Cable] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032JAG4G/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AEKEXTXL2B213)

I also purchased a replacement headset wire, if you are interested in this as well here is the [link] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJEGXLW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1SHTSJSJQA89P)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FJEGXLW/ref=pd_aw_sbs_23_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=K0YB5QNFJEHAW0QDE52B&dpPl=1&dpID=51SPGvHouYL

You need this kind of aux cable. If you check your aux cable I bet it only has 3 rings. This has 4. The 4th ring is for the microphone access on the phone. I also use the Astro mix amp and headset for discord on my PS4. I can chat and still hear the game fine. Hope this helps

I should add that I use the A40 tr pro headset and mix amp. Not sure how different the two are.

Ok so I looked it up. It does look like it has an 3.5 aux port so I'm guessing this would work.

Buy a trrs to trrs cable, like this one. Cut the cable a few inches away from the plug and strip the wires, then use a multimeter or something to identify which wire goes where. Because the jack is already wired you'll have a lot more room to work with, making it much easier than trying to solder directly to a new jack.

The hard part is identifying which wire from the headphones goes to each contact on the jack. If you can get the old jack back from your friend that would help a lot. If not, you might have to just do trial and error until it works. This diagram might help.

This is a real basic cable but will do the trick, you can look around and find others but you want what is known as a TRRS connection which is what makes the microphone connection work in this case (like a cell phone wired headset with mic)

https://www.amazon.com/YCS-Basics-3-5mm-Conductor-Headphone/dp/B00FJEGXLW/ref=sr_1_4?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1518459414&sr=1-4&keywords=trrs+to+1%2F4+inch+male

With this you would need a 3.5mm to 1/4" adapter which should be easy to locate at a music store or through Amazon and should be pretty cheap. Personally I reccomend monoprice for this sort of thing.

The cable you want is a "TRRS male to dual TRS male." Unfortunately, this isn't very common (I've failed to find any with Google) since it's not very universal as compared to having one side be female. Instead, you can get a TRRS male to male and a TRRS female to dual TRS male. You don't need to specifically get those ones btw, cheaper is fine, so long as it doesn't look completely like trash.

Yo, I think I also found what you're looking for on amazon.

It's a 2x TRRS(mic+audio) aux cable and comes with Prime if you have it. Hope this helps.

http://www.amazon.com/YCS-Basics-foot-3-5mm-conductor/dp/B00FJEGXLW

http://www.amazon.com/YCS-Basics-foot-3-5mm-conductor/dp/B00FJEGXLW

You want 4 pole (which has 3 rings). 4 pole has left audio, right audio, ground, and mic. Also known as TRRS (tip, ring, ring, sleeve).

Did you see this one?

http://www.amazon.com/YCS-Basics-foot-3-5mm-conductor/dp/B00FJEGXLW

Your 3.5mm cable needs to have three rings at the end of it.

http://www.amazon.com/YCS-Basics-foot-3-5mm-conductor/dp/B00FJEGXLW/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1421542346&sr=1-4&keywords=3.5+mm+audio+cable+3+ring


That should work with a headset that has a mic

what other cables does it have with it? the 3.5 mm to RCA does not support microphones. The white and red RCA cables are for left and right channels.

based on a video review i just looked at now for those, it seems you need something like this to get it working off a phone with the mic. there also seems to be a cable that goes into USB for use with a PC. but also you can use the cable i linked above with an adapter like this

If you don't need the inline volume and mute options with the cable, any 3.5mm trrs male to 3.5mm trrs male should do the trick, providing the connector housing is slim and fits into the slot.

This looks like it would fit (based on a trs cable that that looks about that size and fits into mine), but this looks like it might be too bulky to fit the slot.

Bit of a price difference between those, but you should be able to find something cheaper with that slim type connector.