I've been an owner of several headsets including Plantronics and Razer. What I've noticed is that many headsets, in fact all of them, after several months of wear, get extremely sensible when you use the volume control knob on the cord.
When I use my razer headset and try to control the volume by lowering the knob, the sound goes from left to right then vice versa. One side gets louder than the other and I have to apply pressure on the knob to equalize the audio.
Is there anyway this compartment could be removed and just twist the corresponding cables together?
What I mean is to remove the red portion, cut at the green and twist them together.
Should work right?
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I got ahold of black electric tape and taped the "volume control scroll wheel" rigidly. I noticed that whenever the volume control wheel was pushed
I pressed the wheel and try to cause the audio interefernce and nothing happened. The tape is however starting to peel off, nothing rubberband can't fixed.
:thumbsup:
(soldering required)
As for the heatshrinking tubes, they sell then by packs of 20s where I live.
Hold on, there's 2 cables. One is the mic and the other one's the headphones. It's shielded by some knitted cloth thread and they're identical. If I screw them up when soldering, I could always just strip a bit more right?
The pitch is a problem with your voice coils though and is unfixable. I thought you had a volume problem.
I'm gonna pull the cable at some point by accident however.
I just don't trust my shaking hands.
Hmm, have a friend do it?
Red = Right
White = Left
Uncoated = Ground
...just test with an ohmmeter to find out what connects where. Ground will always be uncoated or black though. The wires are very thin, in normal headphones it's just twisted wire, in high quality headphones it's litz wire. Either way they could have two types of insulation.
Rubber = Just pull this stuff off normally.
Enamel = This is plastic clearcoat that cannot be soldered through. To remove it burn it off with a bic lighter then use fine sandpaper to clean off the ash. You should be able to solder to it now.
Took me an hour to solder, just finished. Sound is FUCKING amazing.
Just gotta finish the mic + and mic -.
Any tips on soldering? I had a hard time getting the solder on the tip of the stripped cables, it kept falling off.
I bought it at a dollar shop for $1.40.
It came in a spiral, looks pretty generic.
I ended up buying a soldering iron from radioshack for 9 bucks. Gonna try soldering again in the evening.