3 cables I imagine... an AC Adapter, an AV Cable (composite I imagine), and a cable to connect the CD player to the Genny.
Is that correct?
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3 cables I imagine... an AC Adapter, an AV Cable (composite I imagine), and a cable to connect the CD player to the Genny.
Is that correct?
From the pics here, it looks like:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Sega-CD-Sys...item4aa7e70e28
-Unit
-A/C power adapter
-3.5mm audio mixing cable
-joining plate
-manual/inserts
What's an audio mixing cable? Is there supposed to be a cable that connects the CD Player to the Genny? When the CD Player is connected, does it have it's own Audio/Video out or does it run out of the Gennys Audio/Video out?Quote:
Originally Posted by wargod
It's for the Model 1. It hooks into the Headphone jack and then goes into the mixing port on the back of the Sega CD. It's so you can get Genesis Audio out of the back of the Sega CD when using a Model 1 Genesis system with it. The back of the Sega CD outputs Stereo audio, if you want to use that for sound you need one of two things. A model 2 Sega Genesis as it gives Stereo audio through the expansion port, or you need the mixing cable for the Model 1 Genesis. If you don't have the mixing cable you will just get Sega CD audio through the RCA jacks on the Sega CD.
However if you just plan on using the Genesis AV port for sound and audio it doesn't matter, just remember you can only get Mono through it with a Model 1.
Awesome, thks for the in depth reply!! just what I was looking for:!:Quote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
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You don't need the mixing cable at all, but it can give slightly higher quality sound if you use it on the model 1. (model 2 mixes to the CD internally, so you can use the CD's stereo jacks anyway and get better sound from the CD side -mixed with the more or less same sounding genesis side)
On the model 1 genesis, if you don't plug the mixing cable into the CD (either model), the CD sounds (both red book CD audio and the PCM sound chip) get output from the genesis headphone jack, av port, and RF/channel 3/4. (the CD unit sends the stereo audio through the expansion port like the 32x does via the cart slot)
However, when you connect the mixing cable from the headphone jack to the CD's mixing input the CD disables internal mixing to the Genesis (so no CD sound goes to the genesis through the expansion port) and then takes the sound from the Genesis headphone line out (which now only has the Genesis sound on it) into the mixing port on the CD side and uses its own mixing hardware to combine genesis+CD audio and output through the headphone jack. (in that set-up the genesis volume slider will control genesis sound only and leave CD at full volume)
I don't bother with the mixing cable personally as it makes very little difference for the most part. (if you have really good speakers it might, or more so if you have a system with a headphone amp that's going bad with more hiss/static to it -which you should fix anyway)
How do you go about fixing the hissing sound?Quote:
Originally Posted by kool kitty89
Don't forget about all that awesomeness they included.
Not only that, but having the sega cd connected that way in a model 1, makes some amp for the Genesis games, when connected.Quote:
Originally Posted by kool kitty89
Here you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldSchool
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...per/SCDbox.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...nooper/bct.jpg
Here is the mixing cable.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ixingcable.jpg
Here it is on a Model 1, but it hooks up the same way on a MD2.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...per/SCDCab.jpg
Is the mixing cable anything more than just a 3.5mm jack with two male ends that can be purchased from radio shack?
you rule beyond all that which does ruleQuote:
Originally Posted by db-81
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Nope, that's all it is. I use a Radio Shack brand cable myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by wargod
Chris
Is that the official mixing cable? Seems like it since it has the ferrite bead.Quote:
Originally Posted by db-81
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but your welcome none the less!Quote:
Originally Posted by OldSchool
Yep, that's the one that came with my system.Quote:
Originally Posted by arnold_the_bartender