Make a PC Gaming Headset to Xbox 360 Adapter

Step 5 Start choosing Sides.

Determine which side, left or right you want to be your speaker. Don't stress too much about this as you can always flip it over and left is right and right is left!

1) On side A, strip half of the exposed Red wire.

2) On side B, strip half of the exposed Black wire.

3) {here's the tricky part} On BOTH sides, thread the ground (the silver metal wires exposed w/o stripping) through the small hole at the base of the metal jack and curl it around the base.

4) On side A, connect the Red wire to one of the terminals. You DO NOT want this to touch both terminals.

5) On side B, connect the Black wire to one of the terminals. Here, we'll be adding a bridge to connect the two terminals. A bridge can be any small piece of wire you have laying around. You only want the bridge to connect the terminals, not touch the rest of the jack. (see next step)

Comments

[Nazgulmagefreak]

Excellent how to. 

I just did two of them today.  For one I used a 3 way splitter for 1 mic and 2 headphones, so a friend can listen in on coversations.

FYI, if you use a 3 way splitter from radioshack, red is audio positive and white is for the mic positive.  The colors are different, with white instead of black and reversed.

Also, you can bridge the mic leads to both tabs with no issues.

TerryP

[NGC3714]

I ordered the Xbox 360 PC Headset Adapter - Use PC Headset with Xbox 360 Live, Dual 3.5mm to 2.5mm (PC35-Xbox360) from Amazon.com. It lists for $9.95. With shipping it came to $14.10. I just tested it and it works fine.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035AMM76/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details

[bgallagher4]

Ok idk what i did wrong but my mic works perfectly and im getting no sound. The headphone side looks just like yours but ive got no sound. And the red wire isnt interfering because ive got it covered with electrical tape. Any ideas????

[newb09]

This was so simple, I thank you for putting this up.  Wasted around 12 dollars for everything to work correctly :). Thank you.

[ChosenWon]

As great as all this sounds....it is really confusing! Am I the only one? Probably. :( the pictures are helpful but the components are so small it is to hard to see what I am looking at for connections. Some kind of wiring diagram would be extremly helpful if you had a minute to draw one up.