Help with 2 Headphone experience

[Bells]

Hey there all!

So, i want to record gameplay on my new PC (built with the help of the great people of this forum) and while i can record footage and get my microphone just fine... there is a hurdle in the way still.

It's me and a friend. We want our audio to be clean, so the micriphone is for us, while the headset is for game audio.

However, we cannot have good audio for both of us at the same time. I tried using a Y splliter on the audio jack of the PC... but all i got was he getting the right channel while all i got was the left channel. which works (since we need to talk to one another anyway) but it's not optimal.

I know it's possible to have clean audio for both sides at the same time for two people... but i just can't get information on how to do it.

Anyone can point me towards a good step-by-step process or give me some help with this?

thank you very much.

 

[ssddx]

sounds like you got yourself a bad splitter. try a different brand.

both outputs should have left and right.

http://www.amazon.com/BELKIN-F8V234-WHT-APL-Belkin-Headphone-Splitter/dp/B0000UV2AW

that takes care of headphones..

now for the mic... are you sharing a desktop microphone or are you using headsets with a microphone built in? if its built in then you might need a headset splitter (4pole) then it would need to be adapted from 4pole to 3.5mm headphone and microphone for plugging into the pc. if you use a desktop microphone and just share it then you can just ignore this part...

 

[Bells]

Microphone we keep as a separate solution as to not depend on having equal headsets at all times. we use a desktop SLR Shotgun boom mic.

that being said, thanks! i thought all spliiters would be pretty much the same so i just got a really cheap one

 

[ssddx]

well you dont have to buy the one i listed above... it was provided as an example

but yes.... low quality splitters / adapters are well known to be questionable. sometimes they work, sometimes they dont.