This video was incredible, thank you! I've been getting into lsdj lately but so many resources went down with chiptunes=win so videos like this is really appreciated!
That's great, thanks for letting me know! I didn't know that about chip win, I'm sorry to hear that. I just posted a new video about the basic lsdj interface you may want to check out 😊
Definitely, I will try to do this one! Thank you very much for the explaination ! Oh and one more thing, we need to see more of your drawings ! Take care man!
@@JoeBleeps realize this is an older video and older comment, but I'm almost brave enough to try this mod finally! Trying to decide between adding an 1/8" jack or doing the internal sound mod. Does the internal mod interrupt the speaker?
So an "internal pro sound mod" is just a fancy name for an amplifier bypass. Fixing or replacing the amplifier is a better solution IMO as you can run it on speakers without an internal amp. Hiss and noise is usually due to bad caps or poor shielding/grounding or in worst case all of them but is not usually a hard thing to fix with some basic electronics know-how. It a battle a lot of cheap electronic guitars often have to fight and most of the fixes carry over such as constructing a Faraday cage shield to keep EM interference out from sensitive audio parts.
Yes, absolutely a fancy name for an amplifier bypass. I didn't coin the phrase but in the chiptune community it was dubbed "pro sound" and it can cause confusion which is why I wanted to demystify it here. Being able to just take the sound signal and run it through a mixer without any interference definitely gives a much cleaner audio signal to record or perform with. There are other amplifier modifications available for Game Boy consoles but these generally focus on making the speaker louder.
@@JoeBleeps I understand, when gaming is not the primary concern just bypassing and amp the signal in a cleaner amplifier externally is a simple and effective solution but it hurts my soul to see it gimped and hobbled as a console and sorry if i came off as "a know it all" it was not my intent i wrote it quite late. :) I'm gonna tinker around tho and see if i can't figure out what the primary culprit is for the noise. Tho i suspect having the amp chip next to DC input and the audio connector smack-dab right next to and its caps hanging right above the unshielded power regulator board was prob not the best idea the designers had. If nothing else i guess one can do the amp bypass for the 3.5mil and get one of those fancy clean amp replacement mods that only sends to the speaker as those also bypasses the noisy native amp thus you can get the best of both worlds in theory.
@@Neruomir the clean amp type products aren't always great, depending on the brand you're buying. There is always the option of a switched approach to either bypass or engage the amp but you'll still be getting that hiss. With the amp bypassed it is actually still pretty usable with headphones. Not as loud, sure but still more audible than I would have expected and without that hiss.
this is a perfect explanation for every purpose. i’ll try the internal mod, it looks far easier than i imagined. thanks a bunch and keep up the great work!
Thank you for this video! It's very informational and easy to understand. Today my father and I successfully did an external pro-sound mod following your instructions. The sound is amazing.
Yo! I finished doing this for my GB pocket. Only took me a few years to get around to it. I had no idea that the pocket was built so differently on the inside. Thanks for helping out! Can't wait to really get a live setup going now :D
Great video dude. Lots of documentation online about prosound, but trying to parse all of the info for different variations for different models & etc has been rough. All the tutorials i’ve found have been a bit vague, or just assume a certain level of familiarity w/this sort of thing. So yeah, this was super helpful 👍🏻 thanks dude
The internal pro sound mod is perfect. I actually have a dodgy left stream that doesn't work even with a new earphone jack, so I'm hoping a pro sound modification will fix that.
@@JoeBleeps Sadly it didn't work out, but through the right ear I could tell that all the hiss and buzz was completely removed. The interesting part is that both left and right speakers work when it is partially pulled out. Maybe you have an idea what may be the problem? Besides that, do you know what the negative effects of bypassing the earphone socket amp might be with the internal pro amp, if any? Cheers!
@@JoeBleeps Before I forget, do you know of any downsides to doing the internal amp bypass, besides the possible interference from a dirty potentiometer? Cheers!
This was really informative and it was cool to see a lot of different examples. I'm new to DMG modding so this was really helpful to me! Keep up the good work man :)
Hi, I've got a question about doing a, "internal" sound mod: do you know of any ways to amp up the audio-jack as well as the speaker, bypassing the original DMG amp? From what I can find, you can do an "internal"-mod wher you add an amp board (eg. retrosix have those), but those are just for amping up the speaker. However, I'd like to amp up both the speaker & the jack, while making sure you the jack cuts off the sound to the speaker when plugged in.
I'd point you in the direction of www.heldergametech.com/ who posts as angryhelder on Instagram and Twitter. They did a lot of the work that R6 copied and make reliable products with a great reputation. They are also very helpful and will most likely be able to answer your questions. I use an external mixer to boost the sound but I can see how an internal amplifier would be useful.
I loved this walkthrough of your builds! Having the integrated PS/2 connector and 6 pin switch to enable pre/post pot signals to all of the outputs is genius! Do you think you might be able to show some of the internals of that kitsch bent dmg?
I could do yes! Might make for an interesting video. It's difficult to squeeze everything back in there so I'm reluctant to open it up while everything works 😅
@@JoeBleeps That'd be awesome! The thing I'm most curious about is how you ended up mounting the side switch to change which signal gets used. I ordered parts to set one up similarly, but I'm just a tad bit hesitant to relying on hot glue for a long-term solution haha. The other thing was which DPDT switch you ended up using, as I've found a few but I'm not too sure on how easily they'd be able to be used once installed.
@@jsfleming hot glue is a good solution if you pack the area with it so it can't move anywhere. That curved recess is pretty good for it. I think I superglued it in place then gradually added layers of hot glue
This vid is priceless! I expect to wrap up my first DMG mod when I get retrosix clean amp v1.1. I have Retromodding prosound pcb, IPS v3, and Retrosix clean juice/clean power in Retrosix shell. GBA is next. Can you do a GBA (not SP) prosound vid?
I am wondering if you could implement a switch to change between the internal pro sound, and using the headphone jack as it comes stock. That would be an interesting middle ground for those who still like to make music through headphones, as well as play live.
It's doable for sure, essentially you'd have two wires to disconnect/ reconnect at a time. Would work better if you soldered to the points where you removed the two wires instead. I've found that to be not quite as good for the prosound but it does work, and would be better suited to the switch. I personally have no problems with using headphones after the prosound mod. Quieter, yes, but much cleaner sound.
Hey there, great video! I found a DMG mod kit called "PureSound + BassBoost" by "Revive to Relive" and it consists of 3 electrolytic capacitors ("replace the old two capacitors with the new ones and solder an additional capacitor to the DC CONV"). This seems to be a much simpler mod - any thoughts on this?
That sounds interesting, the capacitors will serve to emphasise the bass. The mod I'm doing here is mainly to provide a clearer sound and then I use a mixer to adjust levels such as bass. It's fun to try different mods though!
Would love to have some video about the variable clock mod (thursday customs used to have them, and some month ago I get some from handheld legend). I.e. could we build our own, how to we fit the existing ones into a IPS and pro sound modded DMG shell. Also sometimes pushing the buttons on these things will crash your processor and I read somewhere that this could be circumvented by using a rocker switch instead of a button.
Hey Joe! Great video, I had no idea that the internal pro sound option existed! I have just two questions 1. You said that the internal pro sound mod makes the sound quieter, does it still get loud enough for personal headphone use outside of recording? 2. Where's the best place to get those little wires to solder the connections?
It gets quieter with headphones due to the signal not being amplified as much for the headphones to drive them. it's still audible and useable in quiet settings. but it lacks some of the oomph, bass, and volume for me generally if i'm on a train etc. through an amplifier or mixer, it sounds so much better though!! I think the easiest compromise is having a seperate jack for Prosound, and keep the headphone jack for when you're writing on the go with headphones. just my experience.
This is a great video! Can't find much on UA-cam about audio mods apart from amps, so this has really taught me a lot. I'm a bit of a circuitry noob, but what kind of slide switch do you use for the post pot & pre pot switch and where can I get them from?
It was a really small one, any should do. I often use ebay for stuff like that. This one had two rows of three pins so it's like an on/on Switch to swap between states. Having two rows meant I could swap between pre and post for two inputs at the same time, if that makes sense. It's not a mod I've seen done before and it's far from essential but it was fun to do!
Sorry to bother you but I can't find a definitive answer and you seem super well informed. Is it normal that on all my DMGs, the sound is only coming from the left cup, on all of my 3 poles headphones? I can hear from both ears if I plug a 4 poles (like a cheap smartphone ear-set, with the mic turned off) but even then, only in mono, since I tried with the stereo/mono option of Pokemon Silver. All my 3 poles stuff work fine with the Pockets and the Colors. Please enlighten me I'm so f lost lol.
It's definitely a problem with the game boy. Possibly a case of cleaning the volume potentiometer or even the audio socket, check out my most recent video for a fix I did when one stereo channel was stronger than the other
This was so helpful! Thank you for the amazing video! I was wondering if you could recommend switches for the toggle between pre/post pot and the on/off switch for the speaker. I'm having a bit of trouble finding some thay do the job correctly :/
This video is perfect. I learned so much and feel confident I can do something like this to meet my needs. I guess one question I have is if I do the internal pro sound mod and bypass the internal amp and just use headphones that are really low ohm. Will it be audible enough to play comfortabley or would I need an amp. My main goal is to bypass the hiss/hum it drives me crazy. I tried doing this cap mod to and that worked a little but I still get alot of hum and hiss. I guess you would be unable to answer my question without knowing what headphones I'm using so I guess my question is, is how much does the original GB amp actually amp the volume?
It's definitely quieter than before through headphones but it's cleaner, so you can hear it more clearly at the lower volume. I use headphones with it and I prefer it to the original headphone input
@@JoeBleeps Great thanks. Just to clarify I use the IPS screen mod so maybe that introduces alot of hiss/hum from the power board? I'm not an expert on this stuff maybe ill try cutting some wires and do the prosound mod I got the stuff for it so maybe I'll try that.
@@JoeBleeps Went ahead and did the post pot method with the original jack and it sounds perfect I'm so happy, there's a tiny bit but its nothing and only audible with max volume. It works perfect with my RIPS V3 and I got the filtering cap mod into the power board the (470uf 16v cap) and that got rid of most of speaker audio to be happy with. It's still there but not as bad as before or my headphones before. Unfortunately the speaker still hums a little even when pot is all the way down. Would be cool to have the pot switch the speaker off like what happens when the headphones are in but when the pot is at a really low volume. That would legitimately make it perfect.
I did the internal pro sound mod and the noise had become worse. The only other mod I did was the led screen. I followed the directions step by step with multiple references and even made sure everything was grounded and it's still buzzing bad. Any advice?
@@JoeBleeps Well the amp creates more of a white noise in the noise floor, right? While I'm getting an actual tone, and a high one at that the second I turn the system on.
I have a couple of the EMS ones and a couple of Drag N Derp. Drag N Derp are great but very expensive, there are good newer ones available now but I forget the names!
"internal pro sound" also known as noise cancelling? is this the same technique talked about in the gameboy color for reducing noise? i've also heard of capacitor boosting as well. thoughts on this Joe?
Yeah essentially it's a case of getting rid of the hiss at the expense of a bit of volume, but if you're plugged into a mixer that doesn't matter. I've tried out the capacitor mods on the gameboy color but I never really got into those mods as much because I always preferred making music with the DMG. There's some cool stuff you can do on them, for sure.
No additional components needed. The hiss is generated by the headphone amp, if you wire up your connectors straight to the audio out points on the motherboard like this you'll get a much clearer signal, regardless of what connectors you choose to install. I hope that helps.
@@x2bounty not too hard but I'd suggest learning to solder wires to components first. With RCA the drilling and installation of the sockets is the tricky part
@@JoeBleeps Yes so it's a dmg-cpu-06. I did the internal pro sound mod. I decided to turn the pre amp on the mixer down and now it's much better. I guess because i have to boost a low signal the noise floor also gets louder? what do you think?
@@JoeBleeps I found exactly what im experiencing. chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4543/filtering-dmgs-high-pitched-frequencies/page/3/ The first post describes it exactly. You might find this interesting.
Great video man! I've always just done the internal pro sound.
You're diagrams are sick!
Ahh thank you! I'm glad my scribbles helped! 😅
This video was incredible, thank you! I've been getting into lsdj lately but so many resources went down with chiptunes=win so videos like this is really appreciated!
That's great, thanks for letting me know! I didn't know that about chip win, I'm sorry to hear that. I just posted a new video about the basic lsdj interface you may want to check out 😊
Definitely, I will try to do this one! Thank you very much for the explaination ! Oh and one more thing, we need to see more of your drawings ! Take care man!
Ahh haha thank you! I'm glad the drawings helped!
Thank you for this video this helps me perfectly with my first pro sound mod
Awesome! I am really glad you found it useful
Lots to learn here! Thanks for taking the time to share!
Thank you!
@@JoeBleeps realize this is an older video and older comment, but I'm almost brave enough to try this mod finally! Trying to decide between adding an 1/8" jack or doing the internal sound mod. Does the internal mod interrupt the speaker?
@@Two-Eyed_Boy yes! That's what I love about it. Good luck!
My dude this video was a revelation not just for modding my DMG but modding and wiring/soldering in general. Thank you!
Ahh fantastic! Thanks for the feedback
Once again referring to this video while doing a prosound mod. Really glad you made this! Cheers, Joe!
I hope it's still relevant!
So an "internal pro sound mod" is just a fancy name for an amplifier bypass.
Fixing or replacing the amplifier is a better solution IMO as you can run it on speakers without an internal amp. Hiss and noise is usually due to bad caps or poor shielding/grounding or in worst case all of them but is not usually a hard thing to fix with some basic electronics know-how. It a battle a lot of cheap electronic guitars often have to fight and most of the fixes carry over such as constructing a Faraday cage shield to keep EM interference out from sensitive audio parts.
Yes, absolutely a fancy name for an amplifier bypass. I didn't coin the phrase but in the chiptune community it was dubbed "pro sound" and it can cause confusion which is why I wanted to demystify it here. Being able to just take the sound signal and run it through a mixer without any interference definitely gives a much cleaner audio signal to record or perform with. There are other amplifier modifications available for Game Boy consoles but these generally focus on making the speaker louder.
@@JoeBleeps I understand, when gaming is not the primary concern just bypassing and amp the signal in a cleaner amplifier externally is a simple and effective solution but it hurts my soul to see it gimped and hobbled as a console and sorry if i came off as "a know it all" it was not my intent i wrote it quite late. :)
I'm gonna tinker around tho and see if i can't figure out what the primary culprit is for the noise. Tho i suspect having the amp chip next to DC input and the audio connector smack-dab right next to and its caps hanging right above the unshielded power regulator board was prob not the best idea the designers had. If nothing else i guess one can do the amp bypass for the 3.5mil and get one of those fancy clean amp replacement mods that only sends to the speaker as those also bypasses the noisy native amp thus you can get the best of both worlds in theory.
@@Neruomir the clean amp type products aren't always great, depending on the brand you're buying. There is always the option of a switched approach to either bypass or engage the amp but you'll still be getting that hiss. With the amp bypassed it is actually still pretty usable with headphones. Not as loud, sure but still more audible than I would have expected and without that hiss.
this is a perfect explanation for every purpose. i’ll try the internal mod, it looks far easier than i imagined. thanks a bunch and keep up the great work!
I've done this mod four times, and I still learned something I didn't know from you. Great video. Thanks!
Ahh that's so great to hear. Thank you!
Thank you for this video! It's very informational and easy to understand. Today my father and I successfully did an external pro-sound mod following your instructions. The sound is amazing.
That's fantastic!
Thanks, great to finally have all this info in a clear and high quality video instead of having it in single ancient websites all around the internets
Thanks so much!
Yo! I finished doing this for my GB pocket. Only took me a few years to get around to it. I had no idea that the pocket was built so differently on the inside. Thanks for helping out! Can't wait to really get a live setup going now :D
It really is very different. And delicate too!
@@JoeBleeps the job is actually a little less complicated, however i had to find out myself that the board was completely unique
@@x2bounty they made a lot of changes to pack everything into that smaller shell
oh man ive been looking for a channel like this, you sir are a savior GGz!!!
Thank you!
Great video dude. Lots of documentation online about prosound, but trying to parse all of the info for different variations for different models & etc has been rough. All the tutorials i’ve found have been a bit vague, or just assume a certain level of familiarity w/this sort of thing.
So yeah, this was super helpful 👍🏻 thanks dude
I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Glad it was useful!
The internal pro sound mod is perfect. I actually have a dodgy left stream that doesn't work even with a new earphone jack, so I'm hoping a pro sound modification will fix that.
Good luck!
@@JoeBleeps Sadly it didn't work out, but through the right ear I could tell that all the hiss and buzz was completely removed. The interesting part is that both left and right speakers work when it is partially pulled out. Maybe you have an idea what may be the problem?
Besides that, do you know what the negative effects of bypassing the earphone socket amp might be with the internal pro amp, if any? Cheers!
@@VanguardRaven maybe needs a replacement audio socket
@@JoeBleeps Not the case either, because that was the first thing I tried. Oh well lol
@@JoeBleeps Before I forget, do you know of any downsides to doing the internal amp bypass, besides the possible interference from a dirty potentiometer? Cheers!
Really great explanation, thank you!
Thanks for your feedback!
Amazing mods, very inspired.
Thank you!
Thank you very much for a thorough explaination of the various pro sound mods.
Hope it was useful!
This was really informative and it was cool to see a lot of different examples. I'm new to DMG modding so this was really helpful to me! Keep up the good work man :)
Thank you! I was just thinking about this video and wondering if it had been useful to anyone 😅
Awesome man,thanks for share 😆
if you do pre pot can you leave speaker attached and just set volume to off and still get line out on new jack
Your tutorials are excellent! I wish I'd found your channel much earlier!
Thank you! I've not been posting videos for that long so you've not missed much 😊
Excellent explanation, thanks for making this i've learnt so much
Great to hear! Thanks!
Hi, I've got a question about doing a, "internal" sound mod: do you know of any ways to amp up the audio-jack as well as the speaker, bypassing the original DMG amp? From what I can find, you can do an "internal"-mod wher you add an amp board (eg. retrosix have those), but those are just for amping up the speaker. However, I'd like to amp up both the speaker & the jack, while making sure you the jack cuts off the sound to the speaker when plugged in.
I'd point you in the direction of www.heldergametech.com/ who posts as angryhelder on Instagram and Twitter. They did a lot of the work that R6 copied and make reliable products with a great reputation. They are also very helpful and will most likely be able to answer your questions. I use an external mixer to boost the sound but I can see how an internal amplifier would be useful.
I loved this walkthrough of your builds! Having the integrated PS/2 connector and 6 pin switch to enable pre/post pot signals to all of the outputs is genius! Do you think you might be able to show some of the internals of that kitsch bent dmg?
I could do yes! Might make for an interesting video. It's difficult to squeeze everything back in there so I'm reluctant to open it up while everything works 😅
@@JoeBleeps That'd be awesome! The thing I'm most curious about is how you ended up mounting the side switch to change which signal gets used. I ordered parts to set one up similarly, but I'm just a tad bit hesitant to relying on hot glue for a long-term solution haha. The other thing was which DPDT switch you ended up using, as I've found a few but I'm not too sure on how easily they'd be able to be used once installed.
@@jsfleming hot glue is a good solution if you pack the area with it so it can't move anywhere. That curved recess is pretty good for it. I think I superglued it in place then gradually added layers of hot glue
This vid is priceless! I expect to wrap up my first DMG mod when I get retrosix clean amp v1.1. I have Retromodding prosound pcb, IPS v3, and Retrosix clean juice/clean power in Retrosix shell. GBA is next. Can you do a GBA (not SP) prosound vid?
If I ever make one again I'll definitely make a video
Wow! Subscribed!
Thank you!
I am wondering if you could implement a switch to change between the internal pro sound, and using the headphone jack as it comes stock. That would be an interesting middle ground for those who still like to make music through headphones, as well as play live.
It's doable for sure, essentially you'd have two wires to disconnect/ reconnect at a time. Would work better if you soldered to the points where you removed the two wires instead. I've found that to be not quite as good for the prosound but it does work, and would be better suited to the switch. I personally have no problems with using headphones after the prosound mod. Quieter, yes, but much cleaner sound.
Hey there, great video! I found a DMG mod kit called "PureSound + BassBoost" by "Revive to Relive" and it consists of 3 electrolytic capacitors ("replace the old two capacitors with the new ones and solder an additional capacitor to the DC CONV"). This seems to be a much simpler mod - any thoughts on this?
That sounds interesting, the capacitors will serve to emphasise the bass. The mod I'm doing here is mainly to provide a clearer sound and then I use a mixer to adjust levels such as bass. It's fun to try different mods though!
Would love to have some video about the variable clock mod (thursday customs used to have them, and some month ago I get some from handheld legend). I.e. could we build our own, how to we fit the existing ones into a IPS and pro sound modded DMG shell. Also sometimes pushing the buttons on these things will crash your processor and I read somewhere that this could be circumvented by using a rocker switch instead of a button.
That's a mod I've never done, as it happens!
Great video my dude.
Thank you!
Hey Joe! Great video, I had no idea that the internal pro sound option existed! I have just two questions
1. You said that the internal pro sound mod makes the sound quieter, does it still get loud enough for personal headphone use outside of recording?
2. Where's the best place to get those little wires to solder the connections?
It gets quieter with headphones due to the signal not being amplified as much for the headphones to drive them. it's still audible and useable in quiet settings. but it lacks some of the oomph, bass, and volume for me generally if i'm on a train etc. through an amplifier or mixer, it sounds so much better though!! I think the easiest compromise is having a seperate jack for Prosound, and keep the headphone jack for when you're writing on the go with headphones. just my experience.
Thanks for this vid ! Amazing
Thanks I'm glad you liked it!
Will a pro sound mod make the "bass mod" (changing to capacitors on the main board to higher values, 10µ) obsolete?
No it's a separate mod, all you're doing is bypassing the headphone amp so any capacitors changed on the main board should still have an effect
This is a great video! Can't find much on UA-cam about audio mods apart from amps, so this has really taught me a lot. I'm a bit of a circuitry noob, but what kind of slide switch do you use for the post pot & pre pot switch and where can I get them from?
It was a really small one, any should do. I often use ebay for stuff like that. This one had two rows of three pins so it's like an on/on Switch to swap between states. Having two rows meant I could swap between pre and post for two inputs at the same time, if that makes sense. It's not a mod I've seen done before and it's far from essential but it was fun to do!
Sorry to bother you but I can't find a definitive answer and you seem super well informed. Is it normal that on all my DMGs, the sound is only coming from the left cup, on all of my 3 poles headphones? I can hear from both ears if I plug a 4 poles (like a cheap smartphone ear-set, with the mic turned off) but even then, only in mono, since I tried with the stereo/mono option of Pokemon Silver. All my 3 poles stuff work fine with the Pockets and the Colors. Please enlighten me I'm so f lost lol.
It's definitely a problem with the game boy. Possibly a case of cleaning the volume potentiometer or even the audio socket, check out my most recent video for a fix I did when one stereo channel was stronger than the other
@@JoeBleeps thank you! will do :)
You are smart man... If you buy mod console you worth
I ve done the wiring connecting to where the 4 true hole are. Are there any benefit to wire to the 2 pad like you show on the video?
I've always found my method works best for me, but I'm sure it's not too different
Where can I get those silicone buttons? (haven't finished watching the video yet, sorry if it's mentioned later)
I got those from Kitsch-Bent in the USA
@@JoeBleeps Thank you! :)
does the post pot internal mod still have the speaker cutoff working?
Yes it does - that's a feature of the socket itself
Is there a stereo amp for gba or gba sp? The current ones only amp one channel which sucks
I'm not sure. I've installed an amp before in a Gameboy but that was mainly for the speaker
This was so helpful! Thank you for the amazing video! I was wondering if you could recommend switches for the toggle between pre/post pot and the on/off switch for the speaker. I'm having a bit of trouble finding some thay do the job correctly :/
This video is perfect. I learned so much and feel confident I can do something like this to meet my needs. I guess one question I have is if I do the internal pro sound mod and bypass the internal amp and just use headphones that are really low ohm. Will it be audible enough to play comfortabley or would I need an amp. My main goal is to bypass the hiss/hum it drives me crazy. I tried doing this cap mod to and that worked a little but I still get alot of hum and hiss. I guess you would be unable to answer my question without knowing what headphones I'm using so I guess my question is, is how much does the original GB amp actually amp the volume?
It's definitely quieter than before through headphones but it's cleaner, so you can hear it more clearly at the lower volume. I use headphones with it and I prefer it to the original headphone input
@@JoeBleeps Great thanks. Just to clarify I use the IPS screen mod so maybe that introduces alot of hiss/hum from the power board? I'm not an expert on this stuff maybe ill try cutting some wires and do the prosound mod I got the stuff for it so maybe I'll try that.
@@JoeBleeps Went ahead and did the post pot method with the original jack and it sounds perfect I'm so happy, there's a tiny bit but its nothing and only audible with max volume. It works perfect with my RIPS V3 and I got the filtering cap mod into the power board the (470uf 16v cap) and that got rid of most of speaker audio to be happy with. It's still there but not as bad as before or my headphones before. Unfortunately the speaker still hums a little even when pot is all the way down. Would be cool to have the pot switch the speaker off like what happens when the headphones are in but when the pot is at a really low volume. That would legitimately make it perfect.
I did the internal pro sound mod and the noise had become worse. The only other mod I did was the led screen. I followed the directions step by step with multiple references and even made sure everything was grounded and it's still buzzing bad. Any advice?
That is very unusual. You shouldn't be getting that buzzing as you've eliminated the headphone amplifier
@@JoeBleeps Well the amp creates more of a white noise in the noise floor, right? While I'm getting an actual tone, and a high one at that the second I turn the system on.
I already cut the original connection and I'm pondering just trying to reconnect the old joints because I don't know what else to do.
@@garryoberholtzer5626 have you got an IPS screen in there?
@@JoeBleeps yes I do
Where did you buy the silicone A+ B buttons???(on the white DMG)
What cartridge would you recommend to get for the dmg to put lsdj on?
I have a couple of the EMS ones and a couple of Drag N Derp. Drag N Derp are great but very expensive, there are good newer ones available now but I forget the names!
"internal pro sound" also known as noise cancelling? is this the same technique talked about in the gameboy color for reducing noise? i've also heard of capacitor boosting as well. thoughts on this Joe?
Yeah essentially it's a case of getting rid of the hiss at the expense of a bit of volume, but if you're plugged into a mixer that doesn't matter. I've tried out the capacitor mods on the gameboy color but I never really got into those mods as much because I always preferred making music with the DMG. There's some cool stuff you can do on them, for sure.
@@JoeBleeps thanks for the speedy reply joe love the videos love the content.
@@itsstucat thank you!
Muchassss graciaas
😊🙏
can i just cut the wires to my speaker to kill it? or will that cause issues
Yes that would work, I've done it before and put a switch in line with the speaker wire, which does essentially the same thing
oh yeah having a toggle switch would be nice for when you cant find your earbuds or somethin
What is happen if connect RCA to pre-pot?
So if you hook up the 2x RCA ports to pre, would that nix the hiss on its own, or would you need an additional component?
No additional components needed. The hiss is generated by the headphone amp, if you wire up your connectors straight to the audio out points on the motherboard like this you'll get a much clearer signal, regardless of what connectors you choose to install. I hope that helps.
@@JoeBleeps It does! Thanks. How hard would that be to an absolute beginner with circuitry?
@@x2bounty not too hard but I'd suggest learning to solder wires to components first. With RCA the drilling and installation of the sockets is the tricky part
do u sell gbs with pro sounds or where can i buy one? i'm dumb to make my own. =(
I sometimes sell them, but it's not too hard to do!
@@JoeBleeps how much will you sell one of those? i can't find where to buy the soundmod
Hi! Is this doable on a GameBoy Color as well?
Yes, there are a few mods for game boy Color but I've never found the GBC sound to be as satisfying as the DMG, so I've not explored them fully
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Why don't you just remove the original headphone jack and put the new one there instead of drilling a new hole to the shell?
The internal prosound is pretty much that. I can't see much benefit to swapping the parts out though.
Shed tour??.
It's in the works! I was going to do one then I bought a new 3d printer and it's all a mess again!
i am japanes, i like DGM!
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Great man thanks. It works. I do get a high pitch noise though through my mixer. Is that normal?
What model game boy and mods have you got?
@@JoeBleeps original Dmg, and no other mods besides case.
@@atozee1500 strange. What type of pro sound mod did you go for?
@@JoeBleeps Yes so it's a dmg-cpu-06. I did the internal pro sound mod. I decided to turn the pre amp on the mixer down and now it's much better. I guess because i have to boost a low signal the noise floor also gets louder? what do you think?
@@JoeBleeps I found exactly what im experiencing.
chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4543/filtering-dmgs-high-pitched-frequencies/page/3/
The first post describes it exactly. You
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