CRG | Building a Prelude Zorro 2 Amiga sound card @CRG | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Up until recently I never gave much thought to adding a sound card to my A2000 build. I mean why bother since the Amiga has fantastic sound out of Paula...

Well, when the opportunity came up to join a group buy with @GadgetUK164 and a few other usual suspects I decided to join in the fun and so let's build a sound card for my Amiga... Let's build a Prelude with its MP3 decoder the mpegit addon.

Prelude github - github.com/wiretap-retro/Prelude-ZII-Sound-Card
Prelude software - aminet.net/package/driver/audio/PreludeSoftwareBundleV4.lha
AHI Version 6 - aminet.net/package/driver/audio/m68k-amigaos-ahiusr
AHI record - aminet.net/package/mus/play/AHIRecord-68k
Amiga Amp - amigaamp.de
You may need to install MUI, this is the latest version - github.com/amiga-mui/muidev/releases/tag/MUI-5.0-2020R3

GadgetUKs Prelude Videos
Part 1 - youtube.com/watch?v=hRnVjtIwi1Q
Part 2 - youtu.be/X9wJaO2XbPw

CRG Twitter - twitter.com/YT_CRG
CRG Patreon - patreon.com/user?u=13919007
CRG Discord - discord.gg/3hEzUxTxWV

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:15 What we're building
03:56 Time for some soldering
04:35 My expansion slot brackets
05:19 Back to the soldering
06:32 Tantalums
07:42 Resistors
09:14 Finishing off the passives
10:04 Crystals and sockets
11:35 SMD soldering time
14:53 Amazon capacitors?
16:07 How will we attach the MPEGIT?
17:23 Cleaning
18:13 Populating the chips
19:13 What does the PAULA sound like and what is AHI?
26:04 Installing the PRELUDE and a weird error
27:31 PRELUDE drivers
29:55 What does the PRELUDE sound like
33:02 MPEGIT installation
35:36 MPEGIT problems
39:43 Mixer and a microphone test
42:56 Conclusion