I bought a PC and want to play on it. However, with the help of crossplay I would like to continue playing and talking to my Ps4 friends. The problem is that either I don't hear my audio on the pc when I plug my headset into the ps4 or when I plug my headset into the pc then I don't hear my friends anymore.
The question that now arises is, can these two audios be combined on a headset so that I can hear my friends and the sound in the game at the same time? So far, I've only found options on YouTube where I have to plug the aux cable into my monitor. The problem with this is: My PC has no audio input, only 2 HDMI and 1 power input.
I don't necessarily want to buy a mixer for 100 euro now.
I would have thought that there was something like an audio splitter or something, but I don't necessarily know the whole subject.
Is there a way that doesn't require a lot of money?
How about a used USB mixer. I'm using a Behringer Xenyx Q802USB here, which should meet your requirements. You can do really funny things with it.
First I have to admit that I'm hardly into the gaming topic,
but at least a little in sound engineering.
I understood you like this:
You have a headset with 2 mini jack plugs (microphone and headphones)
You want to hear the sound from PC and PS4
You want to be able to speak on the PS4
In this case, I think a small mixer would be a very good solution.
E.g. This one here:
https://www.thomann.de/...ix_502.htm
You then connect the PC and PS4 to 2 inputs via one such cable each:
https://www.thomann.de/...cg_6_3_n_1
And then the (green?) Headphone plug of your headset to the headphone connection, there's the following adapter: https://www.thomann.de/...dapter.htm
The (pink?) Microphone plug then goes into your PS4, you may need a jack extension.
That adds up to a good 40 euro and at Thomann even free shipping.
The simplest are two Y-cables with 3mm jacks.
I'm assuming that there are 2 3mm jacks on the headset (pink microphone and green for headphones).
On each Y-cable (possibly red - there's a (3mm socket) on the Y-foot for micro input 1x from the headset.
On the other Y-cable (possibly green - also on the Y-foot a (3mm socket) for headphones 1x to the headset.
The two ends of the Y-heads have two (3mm jacks) each cable for the connection to the respective computer (one Y-head end to the PC and one to the Playstation) as inputs. In your imagination, one Y-cable is red, the other green to distinguish between microphone and receiver.
The Y-ends also belong in the same socket colors on the computers. Then the computer output goes green from both to the same Y and output is the single end of the cable with the socket for the green headphone plug.
The connector for the microphone is then also plugged into all red connection points.
I have been using these conversion cables for years in this sense for separate music output in different halls; so should go without any problems.
