How To Fix A Chewed Microphone Wire

[Ralphguy]

I need a microphone for communicating with people in CSGO, I have this old Garage Band Microphone that I used for my PC 2 years ago, but my dog chewed the wire. Is there a way to replace the Microphone wire with a new wire? Do microphones use AUX cords? or the XLR cord? I have a lot of AUX cords at home, will that work if I replace it?

 

[jasonkaler]

A microphone wire is (usually) just a normal pair of wires. Just cut off the chewed bits, stripe the wires and insert your own piece of wire.
Simply twisting your new wires onto the old ones and covering with some electrical tape should be fine.

see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Gierk4SCw
except you will be joining 2x wires, normally one will be black (or even not covered at all) and the other will be red.

 

[Ralphguy]

A microphone wire is (usually) just a normal pair of wires. Just cut off the chewed bits, stripe the wires and insert your own piece of wire.
Simply twisting your new wires onto the old ones and covering with some electrical tape should be fine.

see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Gierk4SCw
except you will be joining 2x wires, normally one will be black (or even not covered at all) and the other will be red.

Lesson learned by me, If you don't know anything about connecting wires together, just don't do it. I almost caused my USB port to die.

 

[ssddx]

3.5mm (which is used for aux), usb and xlr are all different. before attempting a repair i would hope you know what kind your mic has.

provided you know what kind of cord (which should be obvious by looking at the plug of the original cable) you should be able to match wire to wire and fix it. be careful as sometimes the ground cable is not a wire but sometimes a mesh sleeve on the outside of the wire just inside the insulation. soldering and sleeving with shrink tube would be the best fix.

 

[jasonkaler]

Lesson learned by me, If you don't know anything about connecting wires together, just don't do it. I almost caused my USB port to die.

I've shorted my USB out many times and most ports still work