Fred Salles Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Hello, I am not familiar with headset (headphone+mike combine) and their TA5 socket/plug. I actually use a separate mike (usually dynamic) for slate and com and my HD25. So I want to make myself a cable to plug to my 888 TA5 headset socket and get out a headphone plug and a XLR mike input. Now after searching around it seems the standard is not to use common ground for HP and mike as in a headset the mike seems to be unbalanced electret. But Sound Devices gives this pinout for their socket: TA5 jack Headphone and slate microphone connections [pin-1 = HP right, pin-2 = HP left, pin-3 = ground, pin-4 = Mic -, pin-5 = Mic+] It seems to suggest to use common ground for HP and balanced mike. I think it should be fine but I am a bit hesitant (and it is late here my eyes are getting tired) so I figured I should discuss first 😉 Any opinion before I start soldering? Thanks Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 Yep. Common ground. no issues here using an old COS11 with the recorder set to 12v phantom for the ext mic. (I believe I left the mic - pin floating, but am not near my recorders to check) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Salles Posted September 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 Thanks Rich. I did not know the COS11 could take 12v. I have an adapter for lav from XLR 48v I was gonna try but if I can plug a COS11 directly even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 i had an old COS11 that had been a bit damaged so i hadn't sold it when i sold all my others, so i thought it wouldn't hurt to try it on 12v. turned out it was fine, even though the spec says 3-10v. its been my slate mic for quite a few years now, and hasnt gotten any more broken than it was before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobi A Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 Good to know, I've been using an adaptor also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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