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Hi guys.
After a bit of advice.
I bought myself a Modmic or use in conjunction with my Sennheiser HD 598 headphones. The cables that come with both of these are 3 meters in length.
I can certainly see the benefit in some situations to having cables of this length, but for me when just sat at the computer, they're just far too long.
Luckily the Sennheiser headphones have a removable cable and there are third party cables out there that are shorter. I got one these cables; a 1.5 meter one, that is much more suited to my needs.
Unfortunately the Modmic cable is not removable and the only way to make it more manageable is to coil half of it up and use cable ties to hold it in place.
Me being the perfectionist that I am, wants a better way of dealing with this.
What I propose is cutting the Modmic cable about 10cm below the mute switch.
I would then attach a female 3.5mm line jack socket to the end.
I can the either buy or make some cables of various lengths, each having a male 3.5mm plug on each end; one end plugs into the computer, the into the female socket I have attached to the Modmic.
Now, I don't know much about cables, but am more than sure that there are guides out there on how to correctly solder the wires etc, so I have no issues with actually doing it.
What I could do with some guidance on is what cable and socket/jacks I would need to be using.
Can I iust use the same cables you would use if you were making a speaker cable? Do the sockets and jacks need to be mono or stereo?
Just to be crystal clear; this is a PC microphone, not a professional recording microphone. I won't be using XLR (think that's what they're called) sockets or plugs. Just 3.5mm all the way.
I would appreciate any guidance and advice on what tools and materials I should be looking at getting to pull this off.
Many thanks.
After a bit of advice.
I bought myself a Modmic or use in conjunction with my Sennheiser HD 598 headphones. The cables that come with both of these are 3 meters in length.
I can certainly see the benefit in some situations to having cables of this length, but for me when just sat at the computer, they're just far too long.
Luckily the Sennheiser headphones have a removable cable and there are third party cables out there that are shorter. I got one these cables; a 1.5 meter one, that is much more suited to my needs.
Unfortunately the Modmic cable is not removable and the only way to make it more manageable is to coil half of it up and use cable ties to hold it in place.
Me being the perfectionist that I am, wants a better way of dealing with this.
What I propose is cutting the Modmic cable about 10cm below the mute switch.
I would then attach a female 3.5mm line jack socket to the end.
I can the either buy or make some cables of various lengths, each having a male 3.5mm plug on each end; one end plugs into the computer, the into the female socket I have attached to the Modmic.
Now, I don't know much about cables, but am more than sure that there are guides out there on how to correctly solder the wires etc, so I have no issues with actually doing it.
What I could do with some guidance on is what cable and socket/jacks I would need to be using.
Can I iust use the same cables you would use if you were making a speaker cable? Do the sockets and jacks need to be mono or stereo?
Just to be crystal clear; this is a PC microphone, not a professional recording microphone. I won't be using XLR (think that's what they're called) sockets or plugs. Just 3.5mm all the way.
I would appreciate any guidance and advice on what tools and materials I should be looking at getting to pull this off.
Many thanks.
