My left ear really enjoyed this video.

The whole thing should have been filmed close up

Both sides of my headphones work again! Thank you, I soldered it myself and it worked. No more cutting out on the left side. First time soldering too.

This is a good video but they forgot to mention a fundamental point. When you strip your cables you will essentially be left with four wires (for a set of standard headphones without a mic). Before burning off the coating cut your red 'pair' a little bit shorter so that you know which is which. The two uncoloured wires are grounds and will eventually be soldered to the gold leg. It makes it easier to burn the grounds first so that you can twist them together ready to be soldered onto the gold leg. Then burn the coloured wires and then length of the wire will let you know which is red and which is green. I originally burnt my wires and twisted the red with its ground and did the same with the green and had little to no sound which is probably what a lot of people here are finding. Hope this helps 👍

I watching this with no sound. Guess why.

oh wow, didn't realize it was this simple. I have a headset with a broken jack sitting in my drawer for over 4 years now. There was this white fiber type thing inside with the different wires. This video has inspired me to attempt to repair it once more!

Every video. "Very easy to fix it." Totally

I an watching this with broken headphones so I couldn't hear no shit.

watching this in 2020 and watching him sneeze caused a "corona" scream in my head.

the link to the jack doesnt work guys

Wow. After all these years I stumble upon Patrick Norton again, yey! So happy that the TechTV crew is still kicking it strong on youtube!

Well done video. Thanks guys. Have you ever replaced the in-ear/bud piece? I need to take the buds from one set and attach them to the cord for another set. I'm assuming this is possible as I believe the internal wiring is all the same.

Gday. Why is it 99% of ALL headphone repair videos lacking the wiring information to connect the wires on the EAR BUDS , they all spend time at the end that connects to the source, but no video shows the wires from each ear bud, espically for studio headphones

Nice work guys - easy to understand, good delivery, wise counsel.

Thanks for making this video. I followed it step by step and was able to successfully replace the jack on my headphones. Thanks!

Your tips and the fix worked like a charm, thank you both very much!

I just fixed my favourite earplugs with my first ever soldering. Thanks for the video :)

Thank you for the lighter tip! All smooth sailing from there.

Great Walk through! First time soldering and this definitely helped.

Excellent vid, the first one I found on the subject that actually tells you which wires go to which terminal on the jack!

The burned enamel residue and, if you burn for a long time, the copper oxide are very good insulators AND very good at preventing solder adhesion. It's therefore best to GENTLY use some fine grit sandpaper to remove it. Either press the wires gently onto the sandpaper and drag OR fold the sandpaper over the wires and pull. Try to rotate the wires between swipes to expose as much copper as possible. Be gentle!

Guys, I, while living, have achieved greatness at fixing headphones. Advice: after soldering & testing, REINFORCE the place where wire attaches to the plug! How? Superglue/liquid cement. Those glues are runny when you squeeze them out of the tube, but after a few minutes become gooey and like spiderweb. USE that 'spiderweb'. Wrap it around the spot you soldered plus half an inch onto the wire (many layers, generously). Before that (before even soldering, put a spring from a pen onto the wire. Once first batch of 'spiderweb' solidifies, pull (screw) the pen spring onto the spot and add more spiderweb. Wait 24 hours for joint to become hard as a rock, slap some black insulating tape of shrink tubing on top - the end. You get headphone jack that NEVER breaks off.

Thanks! I had a cable/soldering lose inside my k701 and didn't know how to take them apart so I could fix them. Thanks to your video I have yet again working headphones.

Thanks guys - gonna give this a shot. Now have - count them - 3 broken headphones and I'LL BE DAMNED IF I'LL BUY ANOTHER SET UNTIL I FIX AT LEAST ONE OF THESE!

For those that have the Steel Series Arctis with their proprietary cable and random disconnects, audio only on one side or phone adapter not working without fiddling with the cable you can take a hammer and tap lightly the tip of the male connector (not the jack, their weird usb like cable) so that when you insert it in the female connector the metal housing pushes the contacts properly. This is how I fixed mine.

The tip about using a lighter to burn the coatings is very useful, thank you. I just cut a different cable with a good jack and tied the wires together - no soldering :)

I'm going to try this on my KOSS PortaPros that I got two christmas' ago and use regularly. That's an interesting soldering method. I remember from soldering projects as a kid that melting solder onto the tip if the iron and then rubbing it onto the connectors would have been bad form. If that because these connections are so small and delicate?

As far as standards, I was repairing my headphones with a 3.5mm connector that had some pre-cut wire on it. (The headphones had a short cable that I didn't want to make any shorter.) The headphones had red, white, and green and the replacement connector had red white and black. I ended up doing some research to see what wires did what depending on the wiring scheme.

What soldering iron model do you recommend? Or, at least, what minimum wattage? And I notice you use a tip with a fine point instead of a flat head -- does that help keep the tip hotter? Also, do you use solder with or without lead in it? I know the non-leaded kind is safer/healthier, but for the life of me, I cannot get it to melt and work, so I just resort to the leaded kind. What do you use? I would love it if you guys would do a short vid just on soldering and soldering irons (I did not see in your video list but I might be blind). Thanks for the tip today! I am running out to my Radio Shack (the last one remaining in my area before they go the way of the carrier pidgeon) to pick up a 1/8" jack and do it!

I tried this and went from sound coming from my left ear to no sound at all. Thanks guys.

Very good and easy. You can take it to the next level with shrink tubes before soldering or moulding into tiny amount of hotglue.

Thanks! I was trying to fix my headphones and removing the wax from the cables was the thing I was missing. This really helped

How the fuck am i supposed to hear when my headphones are broken?

Lol, my headphones broke and I cant hear the video.

Thank you! I just ordered 5 trrs connectors to fix my broken headphoneS! Great channel

How else is watching this with one side headphones 😂

I can save millions with this

really helped when I was trying to repair my earphone jack, thumbs up!

You guys need more subscribers! Thanks for the info. Great stuff!!

One time I was fixing my good old Philips she9000 then I finished soldering I realized I didn't put the plug cover on the cable before. ALL OF MY HATE.

Next vid project... How to REINFORCE your headphones so they withstand this kind of breakage :P

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

It would help if I could hear what your saying

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How the fuck am I supposed to do ALL of that myself?!

Thank you, that helps. Now to go pick up some solder and give it shot. Is it the same for the 3.5 L shaped plugs? The plastic housing doesn't look like it's threaded. If it is, it's beyond finger tight-I'll have to try the pliers on it. Thumbs up.

Nice one guys. I love the disclaimers thrown in. Very funny...

Right after I threw away my broken headphones, I see this.

This COULD be a good video but MY HEADPHONES ARE BROKEN SO I CANT HEAR!

Awesome. Very helpful! Would love to see a video of you guys repurposing a cheap amplifier for a helmet. Currently working on this for a Halloween costume.

Love this, love the vibes. Thanks for the simple instructions. Subbed!

Excellent!!! I get through so many headphones due to this problem! All you need to do now is pronounce soldering correctly :P

I would prefer watching what they are doing, not who they are

Thank the heavens I found this! I just got new headphone yesterday, good ones too, and they are already broken. I'm gonna do this soon so I can get back to what I was going to do.

It would be helpful if you labeled your video to include the word jack since you actually fix the jack and not the cable. I happened to come across this, thank God, as it was just what I needed. Great instruction, very detailed and easy to follow.

I don't have those tool at all to fix my cheap $5 head phones

i cant hear anything IF MY HEADPHONES DOESNT WORK

what soldering tool do you recommend? thank you for the video.

What are some good places to look for tech odds and ends now that radioshack is gone?

Wtf am I doing here, I'm listening to this with my headphones

I inhaled... what now? do I hold it in?... please respond quick :)

Man I’ve wiggled mine so much both ends are unwired and tapped up but hopefully this will help. I sooo am afraid 😱 to do the example your showing. I’ve been shocked one to many times. Thanks was helpful still.

Many thanks for this insightful video. You say at around the 4:02 mark the various colors of the wires and where they go, you say the outer pin is red, which outer pin would that be? If I look down on my jack I have two 'outer' pins on the left and the right. Does the red go on my right hand side pin or my left hand side pin? To also be clear, I am using a four-pole TRRS audio/mic jack so I have four colored wires: red, green, blue, and gold. I am assuming the gold goes in the same place as yours, the green at the top as you say in the video and the red and blue? Many thanks in advance for whatever answer is given.

Or just buy a new headphones wire.. more expensive to get the equipment in the first place.

*GREAT So I can go out today and spend $30 on a pair of good earbuds or I can go spend $15 on a cheap soldering iron $25 on a magnifying micro clamping contraption and $5-7 on pckge of jack input ends and spend an hour + swearing and cursing and burning my fingers😃*.

This is what I was in search of. Thanks a ton.

Nice. What did you say about the wiring again. The red into the tall link. Green into the short link. And then. I need to replace a jack for the PS4 headphone

Currently as of age 15, I have destroyed and gone through 70 pairs of crappy headphones.

Super helpful and super simple for a first video.

hello can you please add on the description the tools you are using to repair , some links on amazon or whatever so we can buy them.thanks

i'm working on trying to fix a set of headphones for my little brother, but inside the wire casing i found red, green, and a blue enamel coated wires, and inside the copper ground wire was a white rubber coated wire as well. I imagine that the white will connect to the ground just like the copper one, but what about the colored ones? red for right channel, green for left, and blue for mic?

I dont know how to THANK u really i needed to know how to uncover that material which coating the 3 wires of the headphone but i connected them with something more easy it was a READY cable a ready plug(a 2 male Plug Cable) i cut one of them and used it with no need the soldering stuff

thanks a lot ,worked for me i didn't know about the insulated coating :)

Thanks im gonna do this this week end, plus entertaining banter liked and subbed

That electronics magnifier with the clips, I just used mine like that yesterday! (was trying to fix a broken iphone 5s, i think its dead Jim, might have fried display because I didnt disconnect battery before working on it)

What is that thing called that they are using to hold the jack in place? It has two clamps and a magnifyer

Thanks to you, I finally repaired my 1984 Sony MDR-70 headphones ! Works like a charm :-)

You guys may have saved my $100 studio headphones! I will be DIYing this when Radioshack opens ~Thanks :D

I chanced upon this video. Excellent presentation! Keep going guys!

You guys are great! Thanks for the video

Hi im new to this and dont know how to soder , but i have a question .... Instead of fixing the bottom tip of the wires and adding a new jack to it ... How can i add an aux input to the headset?? Instead of having to fix the tips, so whenever my wiring breaks i can just buy a new aux cable like the dre beats headset idk if i explained that correctly . Cause i have a jbl headset that i love but there so hard to find n expensive but the wiring keep breaking n i dont want to throw them away I want to recycle them. N add a aux

I have open mine at the insid, one of the headphone. One of the things inside is broken but there is two ends at the "cover". Which should I put it on?

I have a mic'd gaming headset. I cut off the 1/8" connector, stripped the wire to replace the faulty connector, and found one blue and one green wire, both very fine, and a fatter stranded black wire. Can you tell me what's up with that?

worked for me,thank you!

Will this work for the any part of the wire? eg the part that goes inside the actual headpiece

What if your headset half works on both sides? I have Siberia v2's that seem to only be missing some sounds in both sides and I am not sure whether it would be the same as just right and left channel.

I enjoyed that but can i ask what i should do when its cutted in the middleof the cable ? :D

This video was the first thing that popped up when I search to figure out why one of my wires looked so weird. Fire solved it, thanks!

Thanks for tutorial but my Koss Portapro’s wire is a bit weird- the red and green are separated like in your sample but both of them have gold wire as well.. so both have ground?

On your 4 pole/TRRS wiring, your cable (and mine on my Klipsch IEMs) has FIVE wires, not four. You mention red, green, ground, and red/green. You have another gold that I assume is ground. Do you just solder the two golds to the same point on the plug?

hey im trying to fix my headohones for a school project do you by any chance know how to fix the wire if its close to the earpiece any advice?

I just tried this method out, but my right channel keeps getting scratchy after soldering. I tried messing with the wires and found that when i adjusted the base where the rubber coating is still around the wires, the audio comes in and out. Are there certain wires that shouldnt touch certain parts of the jack? Is the wire inside the rubber bad, and i should trim it back further and start there? Any help would be appreciated!

I gave you a like for teaching me to burn the headphone cable! That's gold!

Great lesson! Thanks!

How does this repair change if the wire is broken at the mic/control pod hanging on the headphone wire? I never use the mic/control pod, and I'm perfectly OK with just cutting it out.

Great job guys just subscribed great content keep the videos coming

Have Bose headphones that broke . Same issue ( jack snapped off) do you think your method to fix headphones will work with that brand ?

Thanks.. You helped me save my headphone.. Was planning for a new pair.... Thanks a million..

OMG I did forget the cover piece once (had to put it the wire first ) so glad I was not the only one.

I have my beats solo2 for almost a year. Then yesterday the right part is not playing. I also need to play with the cord so that the right part can play, but not for long. I'm not good at this DIY type of tutorials so should I buy a new one? Or should I do this tutorials? Can anyone help me? Your help would be pretty much appreciated guys. Thank you!