NA Model 2 Saturn Audio Buzz

[naiaru]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot tomorrow and hopefully be able to post some good news.

Oh, I meant that comment in general. My original post was just about their being audio buzz even though I had the audio routed seperately (and somehow diconnecting the SCART cable at the console end cleans up the audio), and this whole digital audio thing came up.

[darcagn]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot tomorrow and hopefully be able to post some good news.

Oh, I meant that comment in general. My original post was just about their being audio buzz even though I had the audio routed seperately (and somehow diconnecting the SCART cable at the console end cleans up the audio), and this whole digital audio thing came up.

Oh, I'm sorry, I understand now. The reason you are getting buzz from the separate RCA jacks is because the video interference works both ways. It's traveling back into the console's audio circuit, from the SCART cable. It sounds slightly better because it's further away, but it's still present. Thus it makes sense that when you unplug the cable, the buzz goes away.

[naiaru]

Good news and bad news.

I retried attaching the chip to the adapter board but I ended up just bridging half the legs and ended up lifting quite a few of the pads on the adaptor board when trying to remove the excess solder (I used quite a bit of flux), but, after reading your post, darcagn, I thought I would retry just having seperate analog outs but removing the audio pins on the console end of the SCART cable (so the interference hopefully wouldn't be connected to the seperate audio outputs). I put a headphone jack where I was going to put the RCA jack and thought I'd remove them one at a time and started by removing the right audio pin and plugging that in, but that was all it took and it works great now. The audio is more or less the same as when I was using S-Video cables, which is essentially what I was after. So thank you everybody who helped me out in this thread.

[darcagn]

Good news and bad news.

I retried attaching the chip to the adapter board but I ended up just bridging half the legs and ended up lifting quite a few of the pads on the adaptor board when trying to remove the excess solder (I used quite a bit of flux), but, after reading your post, darcagn, I thought I would retry just having seperate analog outs but removing the audio pins on the console end of the SCART cable (so the interference hopefully wouldn't be connected to the seperate audio outputs). I put a headphone jack where I was going to put the RCA jack and thought I'd remove them one at a time and started by removing the right audio pin and plugging that in, but that was all it took and it works great now. The audio is more or less the same as when I was using S-Video cables, which is essentially what I was after. So thank you everybody who helped me out in this thread.

Awesome, glad to hear it worked out in the end.