Jason Novak

Yes, those would be the correct wires. Firebirds seem to use red/blue harnesses over white/black in Camaros, but the audio is located in the same places.

TCW

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Glad I could be of help.

Intimidator_SS

so do u have to put a blank cd in the player so that it plays it....or would u put a reg cd with tracks...

Jason Novak

It can be any CD with music on it, when you have a MP3 player plugged into the jack sound from the CD is disabled.

FIREHAWK #07

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my monsoon went out and now i need to get another one so i can listen to my music

Creed420

Im running into a problem. I followed everything step by step. (even tho I did cut a wrong wire but solderd it back up).





When I hooked it up. I could still hear the CD but I could also hear the music from the Ipod. Also my right side speakers werent working...

From Left Chan. to Ipod Switch I used solid Orange. From Switch Back to Left Chan on CD Player I used Orange w/ White Line.

From Right Chan. to Ipod Switch I used solid Blue. From Switch Back to Right Chan. I used Blue w/ White Line.

For the 5th Wire I came from the Ipod Switch and Mounted it to the Chassis.



What did I do wrong??

Jason Novak

4/5 is actually right, and 2/3 is left ... you may have it backwards, thought it would still work fine, just stereo would be reversed.

It looks like you may have pins 2 and 3 may be reversed if I read it correctly ... pin 2 should be left audio from connector on the board, pin 3 is from the CD player. You have pin 2 described as blue/white, from CD player, and pin 3, blue, going to board.

Here is a little diagram I did earlier that may have visualize the connections:

Creed420

Thanks for the reply bud. Yeah I did cross the blue wires. Ill get on that tomorrow.. as for the ground, I went back and looked at other posts and it looked as tho some were tieing into the black (or blue wire in my case) at the very end of the connector, so I went and soldered that in like a "T". Is that ok or should I just disconnect that and solder the ground from the switch to the chassis and reconnect the blue wire?

Jason Novak

As to the ground, I thought I changed that ... you want to go to the chassis now, not into the harness.

Creed420

I rewired and resoldered all the wires just like in the picture you posted last night Jason and Im still having issues. Im getting feedback from the CD player (can still hear the CD playing) and when the Ipod is plugged up all volume is really low and can still hear both the Ipod & the CD player playing at the same time. Bad switch maybe? This is really buggin me for a simple splice in to a couple wires...

2002Z28Camaro

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has any one done something like this with a usb port

TCW

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All you would need different would be the jack. Just got to find one I guess.. if they make one like that.

Jason Novak

Creed420: Can you send a picture of end of the CD cable and the board connection, and the jack? And the ground location ... a good bare metal piece of the chassis? You can't get any volume out of it at all? CD player volumes okay? It could possibly be the jack but I doubt it ... you can use a multimeter and the diagram on the back of the package to be sure

Jason Novak

Unless you have as device that lets you put analog audio over the data lines in a USB cable, it will be pretty complex to do since it would require extra electronics and interfacing

TCW

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Yea hes right, when you plug in the 3.5 jack it always send audio and only audio. The usb could be computer, power cable, and whatever else uses that hookup and it wouldn't know what to send.

Creed420

Ok Jason here are the pics you requested:







Also disreguard the 2nd red wire. accidently cut it but soldered it back together as well as I reran the ground so the blue was reconnected as well as soldered.

You can see where I mounted the ground between 2 pieces of metal wraped around a screw so it should have a good solid ground.

Picked up another Radio Shack Phone Jack earlier to just incase the one I have connected now is faulty.

Hopefully we can figure this out. Im so ready to have my radio back in my car lol. Oh and sorry for the blurry pics dont know why they came out like that. I used a good camera to...

Jason Novak

You wouldn't happen to have a macro mode on your camera?

Creed420

Ok found a diff camera.













As for Volume. The Volume from the CD player if fine. When I plug in the MP3 player the volume drops off drastically on the CD Player but can still hear the CD player... almost like someone grabs the volume **** and turns it 3/4 of the way down from normal listening. Then when I start up the MP3 Player you can hear the CD and the MP3 Player player playing at the same time with volume still down really low from when I plugged in the MP3 player.

Jason Novak

I can't quite tell the wiring on the jack, but:

If solid orange is pin 5
striped orange is pin 4
striped blue is pin 2
solid blue is pin 3

then it should be correct ... possible a jack issue. You've made sure the cable is fully plugged into the jack?

If you want one quick test you can do is to disconnect the left/right wires from the circuit board, and take one of them and your MP3 player with the cable, and touch the wire to the tip or first ring ... the ring furthest away from the tip is the ground, but I don't think you should need it for the test.

Creed420

installed new phone jack.. still havin same issue.. its got to be somethin with the wireing... but I be damned if I can figure it out. I did find out another problem that maybe related... when I put hooked it back up in the car I did a fade left to right. The left speakers you could hear sound from.. the right ones you couldnt hear anything comeing from them. Imma figure this out if it kills me.. tho Ive done burnt myself a few times with the soldering gun already