Telephone

[maddrummer]

I took apart a cheap telephone and for both the mic and the speaker there are a positive and negative wire. If I wanted to be able to hook these up to a mixer, how would I solder this? I get confused with all this. Thanks

 

[gyraf]

The microphone part of the telephone handset most likely is an "electrect" type, that will do you no good unless you hook it up with some more electronics, like a resistor, a capacitor and a battery.

But the speaker part of the handset could be connected to your mixer.

Don't expect anything like HIFI though!!!

Depending on your mixer input, the connections could be as follows:

Jack: the + goes to tip, and the - goes to sleeve.
XLR: the + goes to pin 2, and the - goes to pins 1&3

Hope this helps,

Jakob Erland