Splitting an Aker Amp between my Mic and an MP3 Player

I'm planning on setting up a small sound board/mp3 player type that I can use in addition to my mic. Currently testing it with my laptop as the mp3 player until it gets here and I just can't get it to work, Basically, it's either one or the other. The Aker I have apparently boasts to ability to use it with an mp3 player and if I plug a male-to-male cable from my laptop headphone socket to the mic-in socket, I get sound from my laptop through the speaker. If I replace the male-to-male with my mic cable, I get my voice through the speaker. I've tried mic/speaker splitters to try and get both of them simultaneously to no effect; either way the speaker works, but I lose the mic capability when I use a splitter. Not sure where I'm going wrong or if it's simply not possible. I don't think I'm supposed to plug anything into the line in plug but I've tried that too with no results.

My aker works just fine with duel input. You need 1 male to male cable and one mic cable and they both go into the corresponding ports. I can even dial in my volume with respect to the samples too with the mp3 player.

What would you be using a splitter for?

You must understand the line in jack is for STEREO connections...this is right/left channel. The audio male to male cable that came with the Aker was for this. You can easily tell the difference by how many black stripes appear on the end of the cable. Two stripes indicate stereo, 1 stripe mono. You need a mono connection for your microphone (who can speak in stereo?). This is the core of your problem.

There are a ton of cheap sound boards out there where you can pre-record and upload sounds into them. I am using one for the Greedo suit I am building currently.

My 1505 has a mic-in and line-in jack; no others aside from those two. I've been plugging the mic in the mic-in jack and the male-to-male line-in cable into my laptop and phone. In that situation, the Aker doesn't act as a speaker for my laptop but it still acts as a mic. Ignoring the mic for second, I realised that when the line-in cable is plugged from my laptop to the mic-in jack, I get laptop sound through the amp (and obviously I get my voice when I plug the mic in the mic-in without the mp3 player). That's why I was trying to split the mic jack so I could get functionality for both at the same time.

The plan is to take Boba quotes from Battlefront and use them with the suit. I've ordered an Adafruit sound board with a line-out jack. I'm hoping that I can plug the male-to-male cable from the Aker's line-out to the sound board's line-out when it arrives, but given my trouble using it as both for my laptop and phone, I'm not sure if that will work.

Got the sound board and did a test. Still no joy. Looks like I have to buy an entirely new amplifier to run the sound board separate to my mic. Like I said before, the amp works fine with the sound board's line-out plugged into the mic socket on the amp, and the mic works fine when plugged into the mic port, but getting them to work together doesn't work for me.

BobaFiend said:

My aker works just fine with duel input. You need 1 male to male cable and one mic cable and they both go into the corresponding ports. I can even dial in my volume with respect to the samples too with the mp3 player.

What would you be using a splitter for?

Click to expand...

Is yours a 1505? Mine only has a mic port and a line-out port. Now I know the line-out is only really used for stereo sound through another amp, so that leaves me with only one port, the mic port which won't support two inputs itself (Only one or the other) likely because the Aker mic is mono, and assumedly the port is also mono.

I will try to explain again since I think you don't have a lot of audio knowledge.

The AKER system is a MONO system. It's mono because there is just one speaker. Stereo sound is converted to mono when put in the side via the line in jack. That said the voice tracks you are listening to are most likely NOT stereo but mono. The reason why they are mono is quite simple...we only have one mouth. You can find this out by shifting the sound from left to right channel. I have a bunch of Greedo sounds that came directly from the movie...but I cannot play them on the AKER unless I use a MONO to MONO audio cable. I hear the Greedo sounds but they are very faint because the audio sound is split between the two channels (left and right). The only way to combine them is to use the previously mentioned mono cable. These audio cables are like 3 bucks on the Internet and will solve all your problems.

You can easily plug in line in stuff to the AKER system and Plug in the mic in the mic jack. Both work concurrently. That's how the system works.

Lastly if you are having problems hearing sounds coming from your phone you most likely have an incorrect audio splitter cable. Phone cables have three stripes for three channels (mic jack, left audio, right audio) and if they are not correct you will have all kinds of problems.