Homemade Alternative To Turtle Beach Gaming Headset

In this intructable I will show how I made my own custom gaming headset for xbox 360.

I have to give props to mysticalvibes, whose instrucable helped me out when I made my headset. 

I had all this stuff at home already, so essentially it cost me nothing, but you can get this stuff pretty cheap of ebay or something.

What You'll Need:
-Xbox wired headset
-Pair of Headphones
-Soldering iron and solder
-Electrical tape/Heat shrink
-Drill
-Phillips head screwdriver

Step 1: Disassemble The Xbox Headset

You can take off the headband to make it easier to completely take apart the speaker and boom, but it's not necessary.

Start by taking off the foam ear cover on the headset  so you can remove the speaker. The speaker easily comes off by pressing in the three (3) black tabs.

You will need to desolder the wires from the speaker so it can be completely removed.

You can now remove the heat shrink from the microphone wires and desolder them.  

The boom can be removed by undoing the screw. You can also remove the cord by undoing the knot and pulling it through the rubber bit.

Comments

[sxa2udo]

ever thought of using a wireless mic and headphones

[Mr Coke Machine]

Really good instructable, I found it very usefull myself. I have setup my xbox mic wire to my headset's mic wire and it works great on live.
Thanks c:

[polomaster]

Great instructable, but it would be better if could do the same but for the ps3 because I dont have a xbox 360