KINGTOP Headset Splitter, 3.5mm Headphone Mic Splitter Cable for Headset with Separate Audio Microphone Jacks (Not for Dual Audio Jacks)

Works great with my Rode Video Mic Pro plugged directly into my Mac. Works great!

Like many people I'm sure you are working from home suddenly and may want better quality audio for your conference calls or interviews. I just wanted to get better audio quality over webex since it seems to handle Bluetooth particularly poorly at least on macOS.Anyway I bought this adapter recently and initially meant to buy a different brand which listed support for macs explicitly but it was out of stock and when looking for an alternative I didn't notice this one said it wouldn't work on a mac.You can tell it is made with good materials but when I initially plugged everything in the headphones worked fine but not the mic. I came to the product page and shook my head... Since I have a minor in music technology I figures I'd see if I could get it working anyway before exchanging it for something else.I'm using a mid 2015 15" MacBook pro, Sennheiser HD 650 headphones, and an antlion Mod MIC V4.The trick to getting the adapter to work for me was so silly I couldn't believe it.Here was the fix for me1. Plug in a standard pair of headphones with a TRS connection to the headhone jack on your mac (if you're unfamiliar with TRS that is a 3.5mm headphone connection with exactly two colored rings going around it. They are usually black, white or red).2. Unplug the headphones3. Plug in your headphones to this adapter then plug in your mic to the mic side of this adapter.4. Plug the adapter with the headphones and mic already connected on the other end.If you check your sound settings on your mac and everything worked you should now see that it says "External Microphone" and not "internal microphone"I hope that helps some of you out!

I don't want to sound like a broken record but again I am new to working with sound.So I didn't know that it makes a huge difference between mono and stereo connections.But even with that these connectors are good and durable.

Working perfectly

This resolved an annoying noise stemming from using regular headphones with generic usb C to audio jack adapters. Though the adapters were low quality, turns out they "helpfully" provided trrs sockets (4-conductor) instead of the expected trs socket (3-conductor). 4-conductor is used for a mic/headset combo. When you connect a typical stereo headset or earbuds with a trs 1/8th plug to a trrs 1/8th jack, you're creating a signal path from a mic line to left or right channels speaker channels, resulting in extra noise being coupled to the headphones. This adapter pulls out the mic connection to a separate line, leaving the audio output isolated from the mic line and consequently eliminates unexpected noise. Did not help with a newer laptop which also combines the in/out to a single jack, so ymmv. Good luck!

My headset was compatible for the playstation but as a PC player, I only bought a USB adapter which left me at a disadvantage with my ps4 controller. I didn't think much about buying an adapter until now when I realized how annoying it was not being able to join parties just because I didn't have earbuds at the time and I could show off how better my headset was compared to the cheap earbuds I was using.Be hold, I bought this adapter and my goodness, It's pretty simple and it does the job well! It's made out of durable material, you just have to shove your plugs in a little harder (I'm a weak person though so don't take it personally) and there you go, mic and everything connected! This was one of the cheapest options I found and it hasn't disappointed me at all, totally recommend.

I opted to tear into it, to better understand the failure, rather than return/replace it. I was just too curious about how such a simple cable failed. The polyethylene (not kidding, essentially hot glue) that the contacts are potted in is too soft for the application in the warm weather we are having. In my case the ground contact in the mic connector moved too much. I also discovered that they neglected any shielding---which explains why I was picking up noise depending on how the cables were lying. I'll try a brand-name cable next. Hopefully it will be wired correctly, shielded and reliable.Original review:My use cases: 1) Using my phone to record video with better sound; 2) Using my phone for audio recording 3) voice-over on my laptop; 4) VOIP with my studio headset.As hoped, this has the popular TRRS plug pinning that works well with mobile phones and laptops. That is [stereo out left+, stereo out right+, ground, mono mic+]. The stereo headphone jack is also standard, being a TRS with [left+, right+, ground]. What's odd is that the monaural microphone input is also a stereo TRS [mono mic+, mono mic+, ground]. In other words the tip and ring the the jack are both connected to your devices single mono mic input. The problem is that, electrically, whenever a mono mic or adapter is inserted into this stereo TRS jack, the ring contact inside of the jack touches the grounded sleeve of the microphone plug and there is no sound at all. To make this work with a conventional mono mic plug you will need something like a 3.5 mm TRS stereo plug to 3.5 mm TS mono jack adapter. Those adapters will connect the the tip and ring from this product's jack to your microphone's tip connection. I'm not sure if there exists mono mics with stereo connectors but that should work as well as long as any adapter is also stereo.