Anyone know what color wires do what?

[andybeech]

Hi all not sure if this is correct place to put this,

but here is my problem im trying to rewire a headset I got to another jack as the original one is broke, except I have some weird colored cables.

Cooper

Red

Blue

possibly green wrapped around cooper?

 

where as the jack off an aux cable has red and white any ideas what each colour does and where to wire what to, the headset does have a speaker not too fussed if that dont work.

Thanks

[emosun]

if it's a stereo headset then it will use a 4 wire setup vs the 3 wires in the aux jack end.

also the wires for the headphone that look metalic , are coated with something that prevent then from conducting electricity and it's pretty hard to remove if you're thinking of just twisting the wires together.

[andybeech]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

if it's a stereo headset then it will use a 4 wire setup vs the 3 wires in the aux jack end.

also the wires for the headphone that look metalic , are coated with something that prevent then from conducting electricity and it's pretty hard to remove if you're thinking of just twisting the wires together.

ok is that the blue and red wires? the metalic ones and was going solder them together, do you know which ones do what, confused why there is a green/cooper one.

[andybeech]

[IgorM]

2 minutes ago, andybeech said:

Remember that these wires have a non conductive coat, so you have to sand or burn them to make a connection .

[Snooli]

I was recently forced to do something similar to my HyperX cloud. The reality of it is, there's no standard for audio cable wire colors like with USB or Ethernet. If your cups are screwed together, you'll be best off just opening them on looking at how those wires are soldered at that end. otherwise you'll have hope the biggest one (likely pure copper in your case) is ground than try which wire is which and potentially swap them around.

 

Edit:

Is it a 4-pole jack headset?

Edited November 3, 2017 by Snooli
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[emosun]

ok so that headset is 4 wire , and your cable you have is 3 wire stereo correct? this means you're missing the connection needed for all 4 lines to work.

how many sections are on the replacement 3.5mm jack end?

[andybeech]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

ok so that headset is 4 wire , and your cable you have is 2 wire stereo correct? this means you're missing the connection needed for all 4 lines to work.

how many sections on on the replacement 3.5mm jack end?

it has 2 on the jack iv got though i have got a cable off my old turtle beach that has 4 wires red black cooper and blue that has 2 connectors though one tiny 2.5mm and the 3.5mm.

[emosun]

well if you're soldering then solder on some aligator clip to each end , and try different comdinations until everything on the headphones work normally , then solder them permanently

[andybeech]

46 minutes ago, emosun said:

well if you're soldering then solder on some aligator clip to each end , and try different comdinations until everything on the headphones work normally , then solder them permanently

ill give that a go so far had not much luck with it.