Full fit
3.5 mm TRS plug
The intended pairing.
Contacts
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | tip |
| 2 | ring |
| 3 | sleeve |
What it mates with
Mating is directional, so the two lists below are genuinely different: a TS plug in a TRS socket and a TRS plug in a TS socket short different things.
3.5 mm TRS jack used as the plug
Nothing recorded with this connector as the plug.
3.5 mm TRS jack used as the receptacle
Does not fit
RCA plug
Different families entirely. Recorded as an explicit non-fit so the builder can say so rather than staying silent.
Partial fit
3.5 mm TS plug
Same failure as the quarter-inch case, at eighth-inch scale.
- shortThe plug's sleeve bridges the jack's ring to ground, so the right channel is shorted out.
Partial fit
3.5 mm TRRS plug (CTIA)
A headset plug in a stereo socket.
- shortThe headset plug is one contact too long: its ring 2 and sleeve both bear on the jack's sleeve, shorting the microphone line to ground. Audio plays; the microphone is dead and its bias supply is loaded.
Devices with this connector
NUX · drum module
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