Blake Miller’s Blog

This struck me as I was looking for my cables and adapters to plug my bass  into my laptop. As I was heading past Playstation stuff in my crawl space I found a broken PS2 head set. I looked at and got intrigued.

In the following tutorial I will show you how to make a PS2 head set interface act as a sound card on your computer.

What you need:

1. PS2 Headset (Cable must be in tacked passed the volume control)
2. Wire stripers (or Knife)
3. Soldering Iron
4. Solder
5. 1/4″ Mono Male
6. 1/8″ Mono (or Stereo) Female
7. Electrical Tape

Ok to start off cut the cable on the headset closest to the top. Then strip the wire with your wire stripers.

There should be a red, ground, and a black wire. Now the black wire has two more wires inside. The Red and Ground are the output of the box. We will deal with these one’s first.

The Red of cores is the hot and you will want to strip the insulation about 1/2″ down. Then you want to take your 1/8″ Mono (or Stereo) Female and solder the Red to where the tip of the head phone jack is. The take the ground wire and solder it to the ground terminal. Its usually the biggest and comes out of the side of the plug.

Once that is complete you will now want to strip the black wire.  Now there is a white and another ground. Now take the 1/4″ Mono Male and solder it up just like the other one. Should look something like this.

Next you will want to wrap it with lots of electrical tape.

Now plug it in to a USB port and see if it works. In my case I wanted my guitar effects to go through a program called Guitar Rig 2.

First thing you want to do is plug your head phones into the 1/8″ plug. Then plug the 1/4″ end into you Guitar or Bass.

In Guitar Rig 2 you can set the audio devise for input and output. I recommend using the headset for Input and Output because it has less latency. Using the headset of cores only gets you Mono so if you want Stereo then use you sound card as you output devise.

This is of cores very hand for someone playing or wanting to practice on the road. Takes two seconds to hook up and of cores its a easy way of making a cheap pre-amp.

I’ll post some pictures of my complete setup.

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