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#Headphone jack adapter how to#

You’ll also find a plastic cord that’s used to strengthen the headphone cable:

Red and green sheath with a copper wire inside: Inner copper wire is the microphone signal, outer sheath is the microphone ground.

Green and copper twisted wire: ground for the left audio channel.

Solid green wire: left audio channel signal.

Red and copper twisted wire: ground for the right audio channel.

Solid red wire: right audio channel signal.

After you cut open the plastic insulating sheath you’ll find 5 separate wires:

The TRRS audio plug is found on iPhone headphones and other headphones that have a microphone. Once you’ve identified the wires, simply solder them to the correct input channels in your circuit, or attach pin connectors so they can be used in a breadboard. If you only need a mono input, the left and right audio channel wires can be connected together. The wires are connected to the pins of the plug like this (image courtesy of Rob Robinette): The wires are connected to the TRS plug like this:ĭepending on the type of plug, you may have access to the pins inside the connector’s housing. Check the image below to see which wires are audio signal wires and which are ground wires in the most common TRS wiring schemes (image courtesy of DIY Perks on YouTube). Usually red wires are the right audio channel and blue wires are the left audio channel.

Separate insulated wires for the ground, right audio, and left audio inside a single cable.

Two separate insulated wires, each with its own signal wire and a ground wire inside.

Copper wire ground sheath wrapped around two insulated audio signal wires.

After you cut into the cable, you’ll probably find one of three common ways these can be wired: TRS audio plugs are found on standard stereo headphones that don’t have a microphone. The T stands for “tip” the R stands for “ring” and the S stands for “sleeve”:

#Headphone jack adapter how to#

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to wire the two most common types of audio jacks – TRS and TRRS.