Make a DJ Splitter Cable

What a DJ Splitter does is send one side of the output (EG LEFT) to one 3.5mm socket and the other (EG RIGHT) to another 3.5mm socket. This lets you have a separate headphone output to your main speaker output from one 3.5mm jack, although both of course will be in mono. Below is a wiring diagram that should hopefully make sense.

The top 3.5mm jack is from your laptop/tablet, the bottom left one has all the left signal and the bottom right one has all the right signal.

Blue = left signal
Red = Right signal
Green = Ground Signal

Note how the left is wired to 2 pins on the bottom left jack and the same for the right – this means that the signal comes out of both headphones.

Normally the bottom 2 would be socket’s but I couldn’t find a decent diagram of a 3.5mm socket online.. so you will have to imagine it it one.. 🙂

bob6397

I like Bob’s diagram better than the video, and it’s a lot quicker. I do wonder though, if you can’t order something simple like a DJ splitter cable or adapter (Like the UrbanEars Slussen, brilliant little thing), how will you get all the cables, connectors and such to make one yourself?

I used to make them and sell them on eBay, really easy to do.

I’m away from home for a couple of days so can’t really show you any pics etc. But, if you still haven’t succeeded by the time I get home, I’ll help you out ?

Just out of interest, what you wanting to use it with?

Regards

Myk

Thanks Bob – this was instructive