Sound Issues

[Osmondn]

You can pretty easily do that "step 4" thing by popping your SD card out of the Pi, inserting it into your PC/Mac, and editing the file. It's on the "boot" partition, and that's easily usable on any PC.

I don't see any obvious solder problems. The pin and pad on the top-left looks slightly uncovered, but I think it's still making good contact.

I think that after your case mod around the volume wheel and adding "audio_pwm_mode=2" to /boot/config.txt, you will have nice audio.

If you don't, definitely let us know. All the systems we've built do have some "white noise" in the menu system, but the games sound good.

If the headphones sound good, that should mean that the volume wheel and the connections to the Pi are good. If the speaker still has problems after that, then there could be a problem with the amplifier chip or the related components. I think that we've encountered one GPA that had a problem like that one time. It needed a small repair.

Hey Ed,

Thanks for all the help. Step 4 seemed to have worked in combination with relieving the pressure on the wheel. The in game audio is now static-free and sound great! I have it all up and running atnnd it works flawlessly. I am currently in process of adding LEDs to my transparent orange buttons and it looks pretty good. I will post some pictures once I have it finished and buttoned up.

Thanks again