I like the Terratec version of the Doom and PoP better. Very meaty sound. Great restoration! Thanks.

That AD synth sounds bloody great to my ears! Maybe I forgot to wear my nostalgia headphones, but it's a clear improvement to the OPL3. :)

Seeing old hardware being restored is better then most ASMR videos on KZfaq =) Keep up the amazing work, I really enjoy watching, and learning from you!

Repair neglated and worthless old hardware just for the challenge and satisfaction when seeing it running again? I'm totally sold for this kind of content. Great work!

The best retro-repairing channel on youtube!! thanks for this great video. cheers, Peter

Nice work dude. The legit Yamaha sounds more nostalgic, but I really like the sound of the audio on this card. It sounds a little more 'present'.

I actually quite like how it sounds :D

Awesome job! Transplanting the whole amplification circuit was something else. I do like the sound of the card actually, it's different, sometimes better sometimes worse but we should definitely not just preserve the mainstream stuff. And the extra "guitar" distortion in Doom was excellent actually.

I think I’m not speaking for only myself when I say: WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! *keeps on cheering*

I absolutely love watching your repair videos. Salvaging the parts from the destroyed PCB, and then adding the amplifier circuitry as well to the restored card was really fascinating. It is so satisfying to see something turn from scrap to an almost new looking fully functional piece. Your repair skills are incredible.

After watching the channel of someone who salvages scrap metal for a living, I'm now on a mission to buy up as many gold plated components as I can for my own personal projects. I'm doing a lot of stuff with Motorola 68k family CPUs, so I've got myself some gold/ceramic 68020s and 68882s. And since I built a VGA card just recently, I picked up a tube of INMOS G171 RAMDACs in gold/ceramic as well. Saved from destruction and put back to use. A bit less gold going to the scrappers. :-)

I have never seen that much rust before. Great restorations!

I love how the AD card sounds... more than OPL3!!

strangely enough the Ad18max10J sounds better in DOOM for my ears. Its like 80's heavy metal vs nowadays nu-metal ;)

Thank you and good job as always. Love the fact that you repaired it just for the challenge. I was surprised how good (but different) it was sounding in the end.

Ah. Another piece of computer history well preserved! Your work is much appreciated, mate!

Great job, glad you managed to save one of them! I'll never understand the scrappers getting 1 cent of gold out of a 20 dollar (or sometimes 200 dollar) retro card... I actually like the FM synth, it's different, but good different unlike some really bad ones. Sorta kinda want one of these now... But from now on, when testing FM synth devices... MONKEY ISLAND! ;)

Actually, I prefer the FM sound of the AD-chip over the OPL3's.

Very impressive restoration! Your channel is excellent and deserves more subscribers.

This was great, really enjoyed watching the card get restored but also modified to make it better!

Very good intro design, it was a good idea and it's funny. The music you use in the background is pretty cool too. You did a great job restoring the sound card. Congratulations.

That's cool, because I remember Doom as it sounded on the Analog Devices card. Even after all this time, I can tell the difference. I had a Media Vision ProAudio Spectrum 32 sound card.

It's always surprising how much abuse hardware can take and still be repairable. Trying to cut the connectors off for the tiny amount of gold plating on them is really stupid though, I didn't know people did that. Also I know exactly what you mean about making videos about repairing things taking more time than the repair itself! It's really hard cutting down hours of soldering and fiddling about into something people will spend more than five minutes watching.

Love this type of work. I used to go trash picking to build and upgrade my PC

Well done !!! Always good to repair/refurbish things ❤️

Thank you. This kind of video are my favorites! I've got a big pile of mb's and cards too!

Excellent work Very demanding operation!

Thank you for sharing this video. It turned out really great: commendable intention to save the card, good work and really nice music. Very satisfying. Great job. But it is a bit unfortunate you can't share all the repairs with us. It is understandable that cutting and releasing videos is time consuming. But I (we) will very appreciate if you could ,say, film more repair videos and then group them in one cutting/editing batch to save some time. It could be like repair-a-thon video. But thanks anyway.

To my ear the repaired card actually sounds closer to what I had in those days which I think was an ESS Audiodrive

Its nice to see old hardware being preserved.

I like the hardware sound...the noise is real gritty.

The FM sound of TT1816-S is clearly different from OPL, but it still sounds nice. I've heard much worse implementations of FM sound, especially on cheap PCI sound cards from later era...

More... More... Moooooore :-) I do repair some stuff in this way too... I should start a channel too... Maybe in portuguese, there is not much content in Portuguese :-)

Really nice job repairing it! Those cards don't deserve such horrible fate 😔

Great job! I actually don't mind the sound of it. A bit brighter in Doom.

In my opinion, the best way to experience a sound comparison between two separate cards would be to mix the two stereo outputs of each of the cards individually into mono, then mixing them together, synchronized together and hard panned to stereo for the video. Say, the reference card's mono output on the left, and the comparison card on the right, for a split screen, split audio showdown. Not one KZfaq retro tech channel I've seen have done so yet. Great for those of us with two working ears.

Great video. Loved the montage music.

Great job restoring this card!

This card sounds good, good job.

"once a Wizard, that cloud revive any piece of garbage, existed on a far far land, he was awakened, again"

Awesome job.

That AD chip sound great to me :)

Great job, as usually :) and I waiting for more.

I'm happy to give you another thumb up!

I remember doing a small gold finger mod for IRQ bank changing of a PCI sound card. Stupid Asus motherboard allocated same IRQ to every slot (bad mapping table in BIOS). After this, i could select any one of the four (A, B, C, or D). Oh, the fun times of custom IRQ mapping.

AMAZING REPAIR!!!! 👏👏👏👏😁

Love your videos repairing stuff ^-^ ! Cant wait to see more

Love your content.

Well, FM + General Midi = Catastrophe. :-D However there are some soundtracks written exclusively for FM, and these sounds great, like Goblin 3. Anyway I like you chanel, it is something interesting about it, to bring back to life, these old HW. Keep doing good job.

Great video as always. I have the newer Terratec Base-1, with the AD1816AJS chip. I'm not sure if it has the same FM implementation, but it's the weak point of the card. It sounds off and kind of distorted in some games (regardless of volume). PCM playback (SB Pro compatible) is good though. The Base-1 has a wavetable connector as well.

i remember having an aztec combo card sound blaster 16 fax/dialup modem on the old pentium mmx back in the day

Thanks for showing, was very inspiring!

Honestly, it sounds pretty good for FM guitars, especially Doom E1M1. Different from Yamaha's implementation, sure, but still pretty good. I wouldn't mind a playback program with the option to switch what FM chip it's emulating and let you hear what a given FM piece of music sounded like on different old cards.

weird seeing a card sit halfway in the 16-bit part of the ISA port

It just sounds different. I don't hear it worse or better. Let's keep in mind that the Yamaha chip wasn't anything to write home about either ... NICE REPAIR.

Awesome job bringing this worthless old sound card back to life. Repairs like these are my favourite; where stuff that isn't worth fixing is fixed anyway. Why not? As you say.

Yeah...I have to agree with the sentiment that this soundcard's midi implementation sounds better than OPL3. To me it is better than my 440BX-2's YMF740C and ESFM on my AudioDrive and Solo-1/1e.

I know I'm super late to the party with my comment, but... When you have very rusty boards that you're trying to save, you can remove the rust very quickly with HydroChloric acid. (And then an immediate rinse with Lye (Caustic soda, or Sodium Hydroxide). It will immediately remove any ferrous rust. However, you need to be a tad careful, as a strong acid can also damage speakers and other things. As well, Lye will react with aluminum. HCl + NaOH = NaCl + H2O. So, if you've done your ratios right you end up with salty water. Now, after your Acid/Base wash, be sure to wash it thoroughly with plain water and then dry out the PCB. This method can get rid of fairly substantial rust.

I always find it amazing when someone takes something and restores it better than original, and you transplanting the amplification circuit from the donor card just thrills me! It makes me wonder what the unpopulated chip to the left of the crystal oscillator is?

I definitely prefer the AD synth to the OPL3. Personally, of all the PC Yamaha synth chips, the OPNA on the PC-9801-86 sound board for the NEC PC-98 series (also found built-in to the PC-9821 A-Mate and C-Mate machines) is the only one I really like.

I can hear the difference and see why the Yamaha is preferable, the sound definition and clarity is much better on the Yamaha chip.

I actually like it more than the original OPL3, it's less harsh. It sounds nice :) Never quite understood all the fuss about OPL3, maybe it was just the most widespread? Didn't catch those times by just a few years, but I'm now interested in retro stuff and I'm wondering why everyone likes OPL3 so much. Other stuff just sounds better to me.

thank you

"Master. Master. Master of puppets are pulling the strings"

Bravo on the save. :) It's strange that Analog Devices never made a big splash in PC sound. They very much know their DAC's and ADC's, and they've been doing it for a very long time. It wasn't very common, but AD also made some AC97 sound chipsets back in the P3/P4 days for motherboard integrated sound. Typically, you would see VIA AC97. Although, back in those days if you cared about your sound, you wouldn't be using the onboard sound anyways.

I'm thinking the cut one just needed some glue and 5 bodge wires, probably easier than moving all those parts

More videos please!

I actually love the sound of the AD. It feels like it matches the tone of DOOM better than the OPL3, it's punchier and less subdued. Maybe a bit worse in Duke Nukem.

wow good job

Nice restoration. Old hardware had charisma, modern boards not so attractive to the eye.

Good Job Great

I actually like this card rendition of E1M1 better than the original OPL3.

Well done.

I wonder if having a bucket of "Evap-o-rust" to dunk boards in overnight might be a good idea.

I was interested to see the difference between with and without the add amplifier actually.

It sounds better than the Yamaha!

Phil reviewed a similar card, Terratec Base-1, but that card had AD1816AJS chip. That card produced single DMA click in Prince of Persia. The card in this video has AD18max10JS and there're no clicks. Maybe it's been fixed in this revision?

Ngl, I prefer the Analogue Devices synth too. 👌

Would love to try this myself since I also have a Terratec TT1816-S V1.0 sound card without amplifier. Do you maybe have a component list, what parts need to be added where to make the magic happen? :)

Would you please record and release also other repairs - even if it is unedited video.

I wish to repair my 1st IBM PC-XT computer motherboard and components.

I do like when OPL implementations sound different but not worse. A good candidate for that is the S3 sound card (yes S3 made a sound card, and it's not that bad). For the sound however I do hear the noise :p (is it the way you record old cards that creates noise ?)

«Saving Private Ryan» good job 👍

I like the Terratec better, anyway, nothing can beat the MT32.

its not terrible...just sound different...Analog devices don't use yamaha chips or use any of its instruments...they made their owned version FM synth that mostly on every sound card with today motherboards now days ...its just much more advance sounding than 8bit yamaha 262...now this how ealry 90's begin its MIDI WARS...WHO DOES SOUND BETTER ??? wish this have continue on after cd/mp3 era format songs....cause i believe midi would had advance further like edirol did with its roland hyper canvas with interesting instruments...LEAST N64 keep the dream alive as last advance midi high poly 32bit synthesizer, they would about to do 64bit synth for next up coming console

I really like resurrections of dead hardware. Glad to see this was a success. This video also gives me some confidence in the ADI based card that I bought. Two questions though: 1) Would that card work in an 8-bit ISA slot at all (in an XT class PC)? 2) Could we get more videos like this one?

Nice repair! Out of curiosity, did you try out the other Terratec card, with the cut 16-bit ISA (maybe it works in 8-bit mode) ?

I would've soldered wires to the half-cut slot board and save both sound cards. I just have to be careful to select the machine to put it in, because once it's in, it's gotta stay in. Forever. (otherwise the board will break off and finishes destroying the damaged card) (I actually have some of these cards, some with amp, some without, some with 1816 chips, some with 18max10)

6:00 What typically causes a pad to get ripped off? Lack of preheating the board, age of the board, existing corrosion or something else?

At 2:45 - Come on! I repair damage like that cut edge connector all the time!!! And I'm sometimes working on 8 bit systems from 1978. :)

9:42 not bad FM, i'd take that, really

The AD18max10J sounds better to my ears

This Donor one should work or would be easily repairable. No traces or one or 2 were cut. Better than mess with the rust bucket. But them Where's the challenge....

I have the same card whitout the LM386 Amplifiers.

Subscribed ! I like the content. But please for God's sake...use FLUX on those smd resistors/capacitors. That solder blob is horrific. Great job ! More flux !

If there's any hardware in the pile that you don't manage to rescue but could be repairable(like, y'know, not totally destroyed or missing most of the ICs), would you mind posting whatever it is in that category over to me if I pay the postage and any other costs (I'm in the UK). Well, whatever it is that is actually interesting, though. I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally enjoy getting to dig into cool electronics, especially retro. I repair things anyway in the sense of a paid for service, I just also really enjoy doing it to something cool in my spare time(or trying, it's the trying that is fun!). I'd even post it back to you if you actually want it and you're not just getting rid of something you don't want :) Probably sounds a bit suspect when a random dude asks if he can pay for posting what might appear as useless crap when you don't even know the person...can provide you with whatever you want if desired haha

E1M1 on this card still sounds better than an AWE32. The AWE32 is a great card but it farts its way through E1M1.

I actually like the AD18 better then the Yam !

I would love to get a way to use my old sound blaster audigy on win10 :/