I know I'm late on this, but whatever.... I just succeeded into making the circuit for my own headset, so I'll try to help with your questions.acousticdj wrote:Quick question about 1/8 in leads. Instead of ruining the cord on my headset/mic, I'm using a 1ft. long 1/8 female plug with bare leads to wire into my plastic circuit strip as I discussed earlier. It's a stereo cable which means there are 3 wires: red, white and green. I know all I need for the circuit is Tip and Sleeve. I assume green is ground so that's my Sleeve. Is that right? In this video (@4:36), the mic he is using only has two leads (the white wire on the left)
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=JPxqluZkS2o
Which two wires should I use out of the green, red and white leads? Or should I twist red and white together? Thanks.
First of all twisting any cable together in this will make it fail. From what I understand of your post, you were talking about the mic cable. You need all 3 cables for that side of the circuit (not just tip and sleeve). Tip is the audio signal coming from the mic, ring is used to provide voltage to the mic, and sleeve is the shield. You should find a way to test'em and find out which wire provides which signal.
Where you only need tip and sleeve, is on the other side of the circuit, the one that leads to the mixer. I had 3 cables there (a XLR cable actually), I wasn't sure about what to do with the ring one, so I simply cut it off (usually the blue cable, "cold"). The red wire is usually the tip (hot) and the sleeve is usually just a copper-metal wire. I just followed Koz' handdraw from the 2nd page of that thread, and everthing works fine.
Hope I help, feel free to ask anything else.
-Scorp