I have several Blackstone narrow gauge locos......C-19 and K-27's. Soundtraxx provide several options for whistle sounds for particular locomotives. Their instructions don't seem to tell you which sounds are applicable to a particular loco, i.e., which whistle sound is applicable to K-27 loco number 453, or number 463, etc. Is there a site somewhere that tells you which whistle sound is applicable to a particular prototype loco?
Thanks.
Alan
You can try searching with Google, searching You Tube, asking SoundTraxx or joining the Yahoo SoundTraxx Group.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
If you can find a You-tube video of the particular locomotive type and listen to its whistle, you can then step through all the available whistle sounds in the Tsunami decoder to see if they really have the one you need. A rather tedious process.
Or send an e-mail to SoundTraxx and ask them which one is right. After all, they are located in Durango, Colorado, where those steam engines still run on a daily basis, and the Tsunami decoders and Blackstone Models are made by them.
Yeah, I guess the Soundtraxx email idea would be best. I thought maybe there might be a website with a matrix chart that would match a particular loco with its appropriate whistle sound. I'm surprised that Soundtraxx doesn't do that!
Thank you for the suggestions.
I'll bet that when you contact them, they will at least have the information. Unlike MRC, sure the decoder has 16 horns in it, but when I called tech support they said they don;t keep track of which horn is which. I mean - they claim that they are all recorded from the real thing, yet they didn;t bother to write down whcih one as assigned to each sound slot? Or maybe, we didn;t actually have anything to do with making this decoder so we have no idea.
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