Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
QUOTE: Originally posted by TA462 Imagine the room shaking when your little HO scale loco passes by you, lol. You would need to come up with some sort of detection system that would transmit the sound you want to the desired speakers as the loco goes around the layout.
QUOTE: Originally posted by kevnbety That sound like a good idea. The only problem I can see with it is that the low frequency sounds would not be "moving" with the loco. like the other sounds would be. Low frequencies are non-directional, though, so it might not be that bad. [2c]
QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse ereimer, I don't know. I have an intercom system that works using house wiring to transmit. Why would you need a second decoder?
QUOTE: Originally posted by dthurman QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse ereimer, I don't know. I have an intercom system that works using house wiring to transmit. Why would you need a second decoder? I think Chip in order to feed the audio to the sub-woofer which of course wouldn't be on the engine, has to be sometype of physical connection. I think the dual decoder, sort of setup the way you might MU 2 engines would work, though the sync'ing may be off, not sure how you would cut the higher freqs out though unless you used sometype of electronic cross over, similar to what a 2-way or 3-way speaker would use. Interesting idea [:)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse QUOTE: Originally posted by dthurman QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse ereimer, I don't know. I have an intercom system that works using house wiring to transmit. Why would you need a second decoder? I think Chip in order to feed the audio to the sub-woofer which of course wouldn't be on the engine, has to be sometype of physical connection. I think the dual decoder, sort of setup the way you might MU 2 engines would work, though the sync'ing may be off, not sure how you would cut the higher freqs out though unless you used sometype of electronic cross over, similar to what a 2-way or 3-way speaker would use. Interesting idea [:)] The physical connection would be through the track--the same way DDC signals get to the engine. It would send the signal back through the track to the amp. I would think the biggest technical problem would be fitting a transitter to the decoder.
QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse It seems to me that a sub-woofer would handle that problem like it does with the small speakers in home theaters. Low frequency signals could be trasmitted through the rails to a filtered amp and subwoofer under the layout.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse Gentlemen, I was not proposing this as a do-it-yourself proposition, rather one that would take significant R&D, but seems to me to be technically feasible. I agree with Don that two decoders would be hard to sync. And I do not know if current sound decoders transmit low frequency sound waves, What I would be proposing is a system in which the decoder was engineered with the sounds stored within the decoder along with a signal transmitter that used the rails to transmit the signal to the receiver /amp. It would have to have the signal programmable so that two locos would not compete. I'm suggesting a complete redesign of current technology.
QUOTE: Originally posted by djs0405 seems to me that if we model in HO, which if 1:87 scale, the sound should be equivalent.. in other words, louder is NOT better, nor would it be more realistic. If the size of the model is 1/87th of reality, shouldn't the sound be 1/87th of real volume, too? I usually turn down the volume to allow the sound to be part of the total process. Do we operate our model empires for the sound, or do we have sound to add to the operating realism? Just a thought... Dave
QUOTE: Originally posted by howmus The big problem is that I doupt that frequencies below 200Hz are found in the sound files in the decoders.
QUOTE: From vendor X. Radford, Our decoders work in the range of 1kHz to 25kHz. Somewhat on the high side of the amp. Speakers that we use are small. Xxxxx Xxxxxx Customer Service