3.5MM AUDIO MIXER FOR PC AND PS4 PS4
The solution is to get a cord that turns the unbalanced trs into unbalanced, separate, 1/4" ts cords.BT90 Mini USB Bluetooth-compatible 5.0 Dongle Adapter Audio Receiver Transmitter for PC Computer PS5 PS4 SwitchFeature:1. So it removes a huge portion of your music. It removes what it thinks is rf interference. The audio sounds weird because your audio board thinks that anything in the mix that isn't panned directly in the center must be rf interference. The board thinks anything that isn't identical between ears is RF interference. When your audio board receives a signal in that left or right mono input, if there is signal both on the tip and on the ring, it expects both signals to be identical and anything that isn't exactly identical will be removed. But the point is that the signal sent to the right ear is intentionally different from the signal sent to the left ear. You may want piano a little in the middle and the guitar to go back and forth between ears. You might want the bass sort of on the right and you may want the drums a little on the left. A lot of sounds they want to pan left or right to make the music interesting. Now let's talk about how music engineers mix music when it is being produced. So by removing anything that isn't identical in both cords, you remove anything that is interference. Any interference experienced by one cord won't be experienced by the other cord the same way. It compares the two signals at the end and removes anything in the signal that isn't shared by both. What balanced audio does is it send two identical signals across 2 wires.
Radio waves in the air can interfere with it and distort it. A short bit about unbalanced vs balanced: so when you send an audio signal by itself across a cord that's really long, it is susceptible to rf interference. You're probably using a regular 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter to plug the computer in at just the right or left input on the board.
The inputs on pretty much any sound board has instrument in for right and instrument in for left.
3.5mm is almost always unbalanced stereo (TRS or TRRS, tip and ring are right and left and I think the sleeve is ground). You will likely also get higher-quality sound because the interior of a PC is a bad place for audio gear.Ī classic case of sending unbalanced stereo into an input intended for balanced mono. But for the same expense as that, you can get a USB audio interface for the PC (which can be very cheap) and just get the audio out of the PC digitally. Or you might find that none of them work and suspect the PC phone jack is faulty. You might try a few and find one that works with the PC. What you can do is try with a different 1/8th phone cable. The PC phone jack could also have become shorted on the inside, or it may have moved since manufacture so that it is shorting against the case. This is especially true of the 1/8th inch plugs. Some plugs have gigantic handles on them that prevent them from plugging all the way into some jacks. Some plugs and jacks have extra rings that prevent them from matching up. Some plugs will simply not match up to some jacks, especially if one or the other is extremely cheap and therefore poorly made. Phone plugs are 19th century technology that is not well-standardized and has been extended in various ways. It doesn’t matter that the plug appears to be all the way in the jack, or that you appear to have the correct plugs and jacks. If it sounds like when you plug your ear buds into your phone halfway (shorted) then that is likely what is happening.