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Anyone ever notice that our SOUND is not in "scale?"

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Anyone ever notice that our SOUND is not in "scale?"
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:10 AM
Running my SD90 Mac last night I noticed that the sound coming from it sounded WAY TOO BIG for the engine! Think about this for a moment. We have strived for realistic sound. Now we have it. But the sound makes the engines not fit the scale. The railsounds on this engine makes one think there is something at least 4 times larger coming down the line. [%-)]
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Posted by spankybird on Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:20 AM
Maybe thats why they have a volume control. So you can turn it down to fit the size of your room. [:D][:D]

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Posted by macdannyk1 on Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:43 AM
It's not the volume, it's the scale of the sound. Jack's right. Lionel has prided themselves on getting the sound "just right" by recording actual locomotives, and that's what we get, the sound of a full-sized diesel belching locomotive. Of course, a "scale" sound might just be too silly. :)
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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:17 PM
It would be more like PEEP PEEP than the GRRRRRRRRR. I have to turn the volume down on my MTH. MTH does a good job of the throtle noise change as it gets faster. It labors in the middle and then smooths out as the train gets to rolling.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 14, 2004 1:06 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by macdannyk1

It's not the volume, it's the scale of the sound. Jack's right. Lionel has prided themselves on getting the sound "just right" by recording actual locomotives, and that's what we get, the sound of a full-sized diesel belching locomotive. Of course, a "scale" sound might just be too silly. :)


Yes, that's what I mean. I knew I wasn't explaining it correctly. It isn't the VOLUME it's the sheer BIGNESS of the sound. I dunno....Just thought it was interesting...hadn't noticed it before.
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Posted by phatkat64 on Monday, June 14, 2004 5:59 PM
It does sound BIG. But then, when I'm tired of it, I turn down the sound.[:)]

It's just like every other aspect of the O27 hobby - almost scale, almost correct![:)]

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Posted by FJ and G on Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:00 AM
Sounds I don't care for are the bell. Short bursts are OK but left on too long, it is irritating.

Also, I used to like the chatter but after a while, the repetitiveness of it becomes just as irritating as the bell left on too long and I shut it off. OTOH, if you have several locomotives chattering at once, it sounds kinda cool. But just one loco chatting away is not that cool.

One fellow had the idea of pumping in real train chatter to the train from off the Internet. I thought that was a pretty neat idea.

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