On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:35 PM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've recently found a pair of headphones with a microphone. I've no idea > where it came from, but I'd like to try it out. I've got no manual for > it. I'm not even sure it's functional. > > It has a red (stereo) 3.5mm jack plug and a white (stereo) 3.5mm jack > plug. I'm assuming that one of these is for the headphones and the other > for the microphone, and that they plug into the pale green and pink jack > sockets on my PC. > > But which is which? I don't want to destoy anything by connecting them > the wrong way around. > > Help would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). >
It shouldn't damage anything to get it backwards. It's *very* likely that one of those is mono, not stereo, on the plug, which is the quick way to find the microphone at a glance, though (unless they were just too cheap to manage 2 styles of plug in manufacturing) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
