Is my headset wired backwards?

[MLG JFK]

So I bought a cheap headset off a friend and I soon realized that the mic doesn't work correctly. Like I have to talk into the actual speaker to hear myself.  What's wrong here? Can i fix it easily?

[MANIDY inc]

well even if the wires were fucked up talking into the speaker would not be a thing, as a speaker has no way to take sound only to output sound.

 

you sure you know where the mic is on it? lol 

[MLG JFK]

I'm literally talking into the ear cup that you put around your ear. The extended mic piece has no audible sound.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, MANIDY inc said:

well even if the wires were fucked up talking into the speaker would not be a thing, as a speaker has no way to take sound only to output sound.

 

False. A dynamic mic and a dynamic driver work on exactly the same principle.

[JefferyD90]

2 minutes ago, MLG JFK said:

I'm literally talking into the ear cup that you put around your ear. The extended mic piece has no audible sound.

You're high.  Go home.

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, SSL said:

 

False. A dynamic mic and a dynamic driver work on exactly the same principle.

So in theory you could rewire any pair of speakers to record sound?

[MLG JFK]

Is there any way to fix this? Im being serious. Im talking into the ear cup and listening to it on my playback devices and the sound is coming from the ear cup.  The mic piece has no audible sound.

[MANIDY inc]

1 hour ago, SSL said:

 

False. A dynamic mic and a dynamic driver work on exactly the same principle.

so you're saying a speaker can take your voice and transmit it, 

 

a speaker made for outputting sound, lololololol 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, YedZed said:

So in theory you could rewire any pair of speakers to record sound?

 

Sure, technically. Most speaker drivers are too heavy to be an efficient microphone, though. Headphones work better because the drivers are already small and light.

 

1 minute ago, MANIDY inc said:

so you're saying a speaker can take your voice and transmit it, 

 

a speaker made for outputting sound, lololololol 

 

A speaker is moved by electrical current, but it's a two-way street. Moving the speaker also generates current, given the presence of electrical potential.

[YedZed]

Just now, SSL said:

 

Sure, technically. Most speaker drivers are too heavy to be an efficient microphone, though. Headphones work better because the drivers are already small and light.

That makes sense. I may play with this idea  

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, JefferyD90 said:

You're high.  Go home.

 

Except, probably not. There's only one way to wire a headset correctly and there are four poles to worry about. I've heard of people getting the channels wired backwards as well.

[ENIAC1946]

Locate the serial# on the headset, submit it to the manufacturer via the support section on their website. They most likely will arrange to have you send it in and send you either a repaired out even new unit.

 

My $34 TB PX3 headset ear stirrups snapped in half and the manufacturer sent me a factory sealed $50 PX22 and $99 Stealth 500P because there was a small delay in processing my ticket.

 

Unless you have a solder kit, then you have more options.

[Pesukarhu]

You can fix it with a soldering iron, but it is very frustraring to solder headphone wires, they are extremely thin. If they were cheap, just get a new pair if you haven't soldered anything earlier.

[KaminKevCrew]

2 hours ago, SSL said:

 

Sure, technically. Most speaker drivers are too heavy to be an efficient microphone, though. Headphones work better because the drivers are already small and light.

 

 

A speaker is moved by electrical current, but it's a two-way street. Moving the speaker also generates current, given the presence of electrical potential.

Bass mics might as well be made of speaker drivers.

[klh2000]

13 hours ago, MANIDY inc said:

so you're saying a speaker can take your voice and transmit it, 

 

a speaker made for outputting sound, lololololol 

I suggest that you read up on how a speaker driver works, but if you want to see it for yourself, just put a voltmeter on the terminals of a speaker driver (preferably a woofer) and move the speaker cone, it will produce a voltage.

[MANIDY inc]

1 hour ago, klh2000 said:

I suggest that you read up on how a speaker driver works, but if you want to see it for yourself, just put a voltmeter on the terminals of a speaker driver (preferably a woofer) and move the speaker cone, it will produce a voltage.

i honestly don't care enough to to that.  or even google it

[KaminKevCrew]

27 minutes ago, MANIDY inc said:

i honestly don't care enough to to that.  or even google it

Then don't post useless, false information when you don't know anything about a subject. It doesn't help anyone.