On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 12:09:10 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:43:52 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
We are looking for a straight cable converter that would take a 3.5mm
4 pole jack that would typically connect a headset into a Playstation
or X-Box but split it out into a 3.5mm 'stereo' jack (headphones) and
a 2.5mm (mono?) jack for the mic?

There also appear to be two standards: CTIA and OMTP

https://electronics.stackexchange.co...le-jack-repair

Handy if we don't get the result we expect (and goes with my extra
question in my first reply etc).

Cheers, T i m