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Headset Surgery


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So, the other day I was gonna game with a few friends and discovered my mic wasn't working.....so Instead of ditching said headset, I decided to fix it, or at least take a try at fixing it. To my surprise, I fixed it. I took a stand alone mic I had lying around and used it to replace the original mic and mic boom. Coincidentally, the boom on both used the same kind of flexible boom.

 

This was the headset I had originally, same mic.(Aside from the lack of an inline mute button and bad mic, it's got fantastic sound and build quality)

 

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This was the Mic I used to replace the original.Which IIRC, I bought off eBay awhile ago for something else.

 

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And after an hour or so of finicky wire stripping, soldering, shrink tubing and other tinkering....this was the end result. :squee: I'm rather quite pleased at how factory it looks. I ended up cutting off the 3.5mm plug on the new mic, and unraveling some of the boom and cutting off part of hte metal. the original mic, I pulled off the little round bit that connected to the headset, and reused it.

 

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I hope it lasts longer than a few weeks, which is what would happen if I attempted something like that. XD

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I hope it lasts longer than a few weeks, which is what would happen if I attempted something like that. XD

 

If the mic does break again, or ends up not being that great of quality after awhile...I've got a budget headset in mind. Then I'll just use these ones as a set of headphones.

 

 

Nice. I wouldn't have expected that to work.

 

Me either..I mean I haven't tested it with actual speech, or with some one listening to it through normal usage... but I plugged it into my PC and went to the "Recording devices panel" in my audio panel and the green bar moved, so it's working in some way. :squee:

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