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Under Layout Sound
Posted by cliffsrr on Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:17 PM

Somewhere I read an article about using a sound decoder under the layout wired to computer type speakers. This was programmed to run as a consist with what ever Loco you wanted. Of course I forgot where the article was. Can you guys and gals help? Also would like to know which decoder falls into decent but not to expensive.

Thanks

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:20 PM

Try this: http://cs.trains.com/forums/1344347/ShowPost.aspx

I typed in "stationary sound" into the search box.

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Posted by wjstix on Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:47 PM
The basic idea is pretty simple, you have say an EMD sound decoder attached to the DCC power going to the rails, and connect the sound output up to a small stereo system with speakers under the layout, and assign it an ID no. like 100. Everytime you run an EMD engine on the layout, you m.u. "engine" 100 to a consist with the engine you're running.
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:08 PM
I did the under layout sound thing myself but instead of a sound decoder I used the MRC diesel sound box and hooked it up to a 5.1 surround sound speaker system (after disabling the center woofer) and set the speakers out at different locations on the layout.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:59 PM

Recently there was a similar thing using a Soundtrax DSX on three different threads:
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1456169/ShowPost.aspx
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1430099/ShowPost.aspx
http://cs.trains.com/forums/1426078/ShowPost.aspx

A few years ago SoundTraxx was working on a system where the sound follows the train around the layout.  There have also been many threads about this sort of system.   

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