DIY 4 wire IEM headphones cable Tutorial pt.1 Braiding IEM headphone cable wires
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2019
- Ever wanted to try your hands on building your own cables? In this 2 part episode, we will be going thru in depth how to start, braid and finish making your very own DIY custom IEM or headphone cable.
Part 1 will be explaining braiding and tips and tricks. Stay tuned for part 2 where we finish the cable.
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I like creating my own mods when I can and I've been searching for a good guide for cables for a while. You're awesome! Thanks for the great tutorial. I cant wait to make one for my Senheiser 660s.
The whole idea was really great! I think I know just what to do when replacing my headphone wires.
Honest Reviews:
1. You have to stabilize your video.
2. You have to have your camera focus a bit better on the subject.
Zoom amplifies the shake.
agreed, i think Adam Savage's Tested would be a good example. Great videos and explanations!
Awesome 4 wire braid. FYI, this could also be used "Flat four" connectors for trailer light wiring!
Nice and detail. The only channel that I've been searching for a few day.
By far the best UA-cam channel for diy cables and mods. I really appreciate the work you do, man. After building a few mx500 earbuds, I want to try my hand at cable-making and this series is just what I needed. Would love to see more videos on 15.4mm and 14.8mm earbud builds/mods too. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! I have plans for earbuds video I have a tray of the parts lying around. I am testing a new style of video and will be uploading the first this coming Friday, let me know any feedback whenever you view it!
@@sgaudiohive sounds good!
Excellent tutorial, now to try and make my fingers work properly 😄
Great tutorial, i remember my old days braiding rubber with assorted colors. From philippines 🇵🇭
Start DIY again!
@@sgaudiohive yeah i have one on my kz
Binder clip works great for securing the braiding. Especially if you have a boom mic or anything attached to a scissor arm.
excellent video!
Keep a look out for part 2 on Monday!
excellent video! (2) i will like & subscribe ...thanks bro.
Greatest youtuber of all time
I am no Mr beast or pewdiepie, not even near Steven He :(
@@sgaudiohive i don’t like those guys at all. You’ll always be number 1 in my book.
Great tutorial! How much does the cable shorten after braiding, for example what wire length for a 1 meter complete cable?
Depends on the diameter. I tried braiding 4 3mm 1M cables and they are about 85cm after the process.
Nice video. Subbed.
More DIY contents to come!
@@sgaudiohive would be good if next video is soldering tips. I find its hard to master. 😂
I will try to do 1 video next Friday, tomorrow's video will be on advanced modification on a metal shell IEM
@@sgaudiohive arite then. My notif is up.
@@sgaudiohive anyway.. does it need flux when soldering the wire to the driver?
hey bro! do you have links for the stuff you use? i saw your site that sells the wire and 3.5mm jack but can you make a video on differences in wires or something as well? im completely new to this and am unsure of what exactly to use :(
Have you had any damage to the wires where they connect to the jack? Whenever I braid my cables I make a few braids and then clamp the cable instead of the jack. Very informative video.
Nice
how to build with a mic modul (braid cable), can the ground and mic be combined and work properly? Please answer. thx
if you have a mic built in you should have 4 wires, one for the right plus, one for the left plus, one for ground and one for the mic, but you can braid it the same way like this, only instead of having 2 ground you have ground and mic. you can split the ground off later.
hope this helps!
May I ask if the thread near the outside ground is also a ground? I am curious because with my KZ 8-core GOld Copepr Silver mixed cable 560 jack has 2 cores soldered there. And 2 cores also pointing out like it isn't soldered. But the cable is in perfect sound, no noise or whatsoever.
It is, some times not all wires are used in the cable,
Can you please advise the proportion between braided cable and raw cable? Like 1.5 meter of raw cable will be 1 meter of braided cable. I know that it is depended on how tight of braiding but I need to get some idea. Thank you bro.
Pin is additional 1cm, Jack is additional 2.5cm, the tightness in the video, 1.25m length braided total Cable length is 1.2m @24awg
Those are some soft wires you're using! Are these the soft Hakugei 5N copper wires? I've got 7 metres on the way. Very good tutorial, by the way.
These are not the hakugei, but hakugei we can recommend, their PE and PU stuff are good to work with,
Hi! How to fix the iem cable choker? My iem cable choker very loose
Where did you buy cables? You have link?
What is the name of the wire you used?
So once you get around the distance where you want the Y-split, how do we know which ground goes with which side? Red is right, Blue is left, and there's two ground wires correct?
also subbed for amazing content. tysm!
For single ended wires, it does not matter which ground goes to which sides for balanced, will need to label before hand
@@sgaudiohive thank you! I plan on using this video as a reference for making braided balanced cables for HD650
Awesome content, new subscriber! I'm so fed up of Apple Lightning-3.5mm adaptors being shit and breaking every few months. Am wanting to make a cable that has both a 3.5mm jack and a separate lightning connector. Has anybody done this before/got any experience?
What do you call the wire you used and where can I buy it?
hello bro, I have a wired over ear headphone, and now its cable not working. I have extra iem cable, Can I replace it with iem cable by soldering iem pin and headphone speaker by adding extra wire between it for joint ?
What cable are you using?
Where can I get the same cables you are using in the video? Brand or fabricator, maybe a website or company that distributes them. Great Video. Thanks!
I'm also wondering this
I've been abusing Google trying to find the wire and can't find it anywhere
@@ImCannibalOfficial try mogami cable 2944 for top notch headphone cabling. the braiding is internal. This guy is probably using 24 gauge copper hookup cable. many people have been asking the same question in the comments but he is not answer them at all! so I'm guessing he's just using a no name brand. BTW The reason braided cables exist is for RF interference reduction. im not sure if his braid is doing this ... but usually more intricate handmade braids will not work any better than simple twisted pairs and braids.. stick with mogami for the best. a cheaper alternative is canare quad-star
Can you make 16core braiding video?
Hey Bro Can you please tell me the wire name and its gauge size and of which brand! Thank you
Gooood
lol trying to make four 2 meter ones did the prep got the all seperated and in a banana plug now I need to braid and my brain is erroring
where to buy a cheap and best balanced armature and dynamic driver and more kit for build IEM's
Thank you very much! I have a question, maybe you can help. I use a braided cable with my custom in-ear monitors. My CIEMs are connected to a mixing board (I am a drummer). I have terrible problems with noise coming from my phone when it is close to the cable. Is it possible to make custom braided cable with shielded cable? I have never seen this. Does it make sense?
It is possible but shielded cables are very bulky for iems. There should be some photos of shielded iem cables we build on our instagram, but I'm not too sure
@@sgaudiohive I just checked your instagram. Really nice cables you have there 👍 Hard to tell which one could be shielded thou. I searched online and the smallest shielded litz wires i found are around 1,8-2,3 mm .. so you are right that could be a bit to bulky. Do you think it could help to put some braided copper sleeve and shrink tube around my cable, maybe only up to the y-section? thanks :D
I will be posting something soon similar to what you are looking for, but the video may not be up so soon
@@sgaudiohive Awesome. Subbed! :D
Nice tutorial. How long raw wire should i purchase to create.a 1.2 meter 4 wire cable?
5 meters will suffice
@@sgaudiohive thanks!
5 meters per 1 cable?.. or
@@christianmaleniza8534 yup, 1.2m x 4 = 4.8m
What is these wire specification? length, gauge or mm size. I am new to this. Can I use normal wires with shielding to make this as well? Can you link me to something on aliexpress or India that might not be really expensive?
Links should be up in the description, added them recently 👌
Very nice tutorial. But what if i wanted to do it with 8 wires? i suppose it will be like: 2 for R, 2 for L and 4 grounds (2-R grounds and 2-L grounds). Am i right?
yes thats correct, 8 wire tutorial coming up next week!
@@sgaudiohive Wow, thank you!. Keep up this amazing content
Hi,
whats really got me confused is how the wires run between a single 2.5mm TRRS male jack to the headphone plugs in a balanced cable? How do you connect the TRRS to TRS/2 pin plugs? Sorry but im a newbie, just trying to fig stuff out!
Thanks for the patience :)
TRRS TO TRS (2.5mm) ...well you're be losing functionality with something. TRRS are often used with headphone cables that have a mic (like the headphones that come with cell phones)... if you don't care about the mic in replacing the cabling, just solder the mic input to ground.
Hi will you give tutorial on how to make 2.5mm balanced cable? I cant find it anywhere :(
Sure, let's do that next week!
@@sgaudiohive dude you're the best, can't wait for it.
The latest episode 2 for soldering tutorial has a section for soldering 2.5mm balanced jack!
@@sgaudiohive yeah i turn on notif and watch it 2 min after it got uploaded. You're the best😄
can you make a tutorial on how to make a aux cable 3.5mm to 3.5mm using 4 wire?
We actually have that video, it's our 2nd tutorial video albeit it's using a 4 wire Canare wire
Nice vid man. What size cable are those? 23 awg or 20awg??
Those are 24awg
@@sgaudiohive thanks. More vids man like how to make balanced cable
Definitely, the difference between balanced and single end is just the connector, will do up content regarding balanced
I am using a 28 gauge ox free 7 foot cable, with great results.
DIY balanced 2.5mm & 4.4mm cable, please....
Definitely, coming up with the series for diy from head to toe.
What`s the lost ratio from single wire during braiding? For example: I want to make 2m, 4 wire cable, how long every single wire should be before braiding?
The thinner the wire the more u lose. Would say is about 20% for 2m 1.2mm
@@sgaudiohive ok. thanks!!!!
What about 2 core IEM cables?
4.7% silver, 4N 99.993% pure tin. 1.7% pure copper solder can be used?
3% or 4% silver is about the same, depends on your setup and built. The flux Etc on it should be enough for ease of soldering
I absolutely hate the lumpy feel of braided cables AND they tangle like fuck.
I'm fine with braided cables, as long as the outer finish is smooth.
It is impossible to know what you are getting with Ali express. Who knows if it is OCC wire or authentic pure copper.
hi good day sir, may i ask where do i get this cable?, planning to DIY thanks
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What is the name of the cable??.. several cables on aliexpress, its hard to find same on the tutorial.
@@christianmaleniza8534 awg24
TLDW:
w4 over w2 and w3
w1 over w2
w4 under w2 and w3
w1 under w2
repeat
Either Malaysian or Singaporean ...
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fix the camera.. this is good content but unwatchable becasue of camera movment
Where were we thinking back in 2019, have upgraded our camera since then!
after the video, i have headache
I find it very confusing!
Which part do you find confusing? Maybe we can help here
@@sgaudiohive that was quick! It's ok, I just found a text explanation here, www.headphonesty.com/2019/04/guide-creating-y-split-braided-cables/. I hope it's exactly like yours. Thanks for replying.
Ah yes it looks the same, you can play the youtube video at half speed to see how the braiding is done, theres only 4 steps
This use of the body camera results in a very nervous twitching video! Avoid stand-alone solutions, this is very jerky, annoying and painful to the eyes! It's just not good to watch!