Matt Florack You could do what I do... Shoot video of real trains, then run trains on your layout that match the speed, sound, and locomotive type of the real thing... I'm sure someone with better talent, equipment, and a better layout than me could do a lot better than myself with this idea! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8e6_eIFdkA And BTW- I'm with whoever it was that said "no annoying music"...
You could do what I do... Shoot video of real trains, then run trains on your layout that match the speed, sound, and locomotive type of the real thing... I'm sure someone with better talent, equipment, and a better layout than me could do a lot better than myself with this idea!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8e6_eIFdkA
And BTW- I'm with whoever it was that said "no annoying music"...
I've done that, although I used a GP7 sound for a U23B (managed to match up the sounds decently though)
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
My little 4x10' HO layout may be small, and I may not have enough money to make it a masterpiece, but that doesn't make me any less of a modeler!
If you remember this song, it will get stuck in your head. These songs got me through high school and college writing courses.
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Will
gabeusmc how about some 80's rock?
how about some 80's rock?
As mentioned, it could distract from the trains...although I've got some stuff that makes classic rock sound like a lullaby (Norma Jean, anyone?)
So here's another question; where's a good place to find sound clips to dub into a movie online? I know I can get videos off of youtube (after contacting the original poster and crediting them in the video, of course), but if I can find some common license stuff online instead, I'd prefer that
I prefer Antonin Dvorak, who died 105 years ago. He was an avid railfan, maybe the first celebrity to confess his love for trains.
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I have some fitting new age music I originally started listening to about the time I first got some of my nice color Rio Grande books. I used to imagine what it would be like to be passing through Ruby Canyon or some of the other pretty desert scenery with that music playing.
In fact this reminds me of an Amtrak commericial from some 10+ years ago and it showed an Amtrak train passing through gorgeous desert scenery to some appropriately grand music. There was an older man with a big smile on his face. Great promotional ad I must say!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
When I first started making videos of my layout, I basically used the original audio as I was more interested in just getting the video up. Here's the first video I did using my webcam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFXrDkCQqo
When a friend of mine visited with his digital camera and recorded a video of the layout, I didn't want to have our voices heard, so I dubbed in a couple excerpts of Rhapsody in Blue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21cQiGXHqQM
I've since begun dubbing in train sounds to go with my videos. While not an exact match, I think the sounds I add are better than the original audio. Here's the latest video taken with my digital camera and with dubbed audio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTU5Bp4kyw
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Anything but rock music. Even though I grew up in the '60's I am sick of loud so called rock music being played everywhere you go today. Maybe Johnny Cash's "I hear that train a' commin"
Inch, those were some great clips set to music, thanks! I think that's a great example of the music being used to tell a story of a train
mtrails has 3 set to Beetovine that some of my grandkid like to watch every chance they get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3nNPrjmew&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hu2EYvRF8s&mode=related&search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPZ-xQAhCCY&mode=related&search=
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
citylimits Night time scenes where passengers are expectantly milling around a soon to depart long distance passenger train might be enhanced with a sound track that features some of the big city Jazz stylists of the past – Oscar Peterson...
Ah, dude! Now THERE was a pianist with some chops!!
Man!...Do I miss him!!
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
cudaken Brandenburgisches Knozert Nr. 2 F-dur, BWV 1047 by Bach. Yes I cheated and had to read the lapel. Most of you will know it as the Theme to Master Pieces Theater. It is my favorite classical music, not that there is not other one I love.
Brandenburgisches Knozert Nr. 2 F-dur, BWV 1047 by Bach. Yes I cheated and had to read the lapel. Most of you will know it as the Theme to Master Pieces Theater. It is my favorite classical music, not that there is not other one I love.
Hey Ken,
Actually, the tune you're thinking of is Mouret's Rondeau. There is a trumpet in Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto though.
Sawyer:
As a classical musician, I can recommend two works that would do very well as background music for a MR video--the first is the Second Movement of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony (sounds like a big locomotive hauling a train up a mountain to me, LOL!) ...
Ah, Copeland, my favorite American composer, with my absolute favorite symphony!!
Carey
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I love long Hair Musics.
When the trains are running perfect like tonight it has to be.
Whole reason I have a Audiophile Stereo System in my garage is due to the fact my wife hates Classical! Dual Mono Blocked Adacom 555's amp 600 Watts A side at 4 ohm, Carver 4000 T preamp, Adcom GCD-575 CD player, Dalaquist DQ 1 speakers and NHT SA-1 sub and it is pure pleasure!
Now when I play Rocky Top, there is a steam engine races coming!
Cuda Ken
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Since the term "classical" can run the gamut of genres from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque through 20th/21st-century classical and movie scores, great care must be taken to see what piece(s) and what arrangements would best fit a given scene. Along with the two pieces that Tom White already mentioned, I might add that the section right after the 2nd fermata of Prokofiev's Montagues and Capulets (from his ballet score Romeo and Juliet) would make for a very fine, slow uphill trudging of a steamer through the Sierras.
That one may be a bit more challenging to find on YouTube but is definitely worth the listen. Whenever I hear it, I always envision two lumberjacks hand-sawing the end off a very large trunk of a tree. LOL!
Hope you don't mind my chiming in...........
IMHO, when putting music to prototype or model train related videos it's good to keep in mind the type of "mood" you're trying to convey. Dramatic.....Heroic......Sad Lament of the past......Happy Memories......Fast Paced Rush.....Peaceful Enjoyable Moment in time........ this list goes on and on.
For me and a few folks I know, modern jazz (1975-today) offers a wide variety of mood setting music. But our choice of music, of course, is based on our listening tastes.
Here's a Tube clip featuring the prototype Auto Train (I love seeing the SDP40fs on that long Amtrak train that passes by first!). Background tune is from Pat Metheny (the same artist that did the classic "Last Train Home" tune that was used in the Publix commericals back in the 80s, featuring an Amtrak train hauled by an F40). Note how the tune sounds "very busy" yet cheerful and energetic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKDgqxdeU3g
This old but cool video clip uses a jazz tune from way back in the day. But yet as I watch the vid the musical theme puts me in the mood where I'm relaxing as I watch 1970s big city passenger railroading combined with abrasive grit, decay, and yet poetic beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glp-bQH5yFw
I hope to be able to shoot some videos of my metalized HO SCL passenger train in the future with some cool mood setting music as well. For a train like The Champion, I would choose a tune that conveys "exhiliration".
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
I used a Vince Guaraldi jazz piece called Motocross for my Youtube video. The sing is from the Peanuts Special "You're a Good Sport Charlie Brown."
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
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I've seen a bunch of Youtube videos that use sound dubbing. Some are very well done but most of them seem pretty cheesy. Other model railroad videos I've seen use classical music and I like them much better.
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Perfection!
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0eGnCIkJW0&feature=related This is the East Bay Model Railroad museum with their music, me being a steel guitar player I'm pretty satisfied with their music ,Jim.
howmus Ah....... yes! What Tom White said! Absolutely! I might add Villa-Lobos, O trenzinho do caipira 73
Ah....... yes!
What Tom White said! Absolutely!
I might add Villa-Lobos, O trenzinho do caipira
73
Ray:
Isn't "The Little Train of the Caipira" a little gem, though? I really like Villa-Lobos, and that piece is delightfully humorous and descriptive. Sounds like it's got 'leaks' all over the place, LOL!
JoeinPA Tom: I'm going to have to listen to Copeland's third symphony with new ears. I never imaged the locomotive in prior listening. Joe
Tom:
I'm going to have to listen to Copeland's third symphony with new ears. I never imaged the locomotive in prior listening.
Joe
Joe:
It's the Second Movement about eight measures in when the theme starts going. Swear to God there's a 'chuffing' sound in the orchestra, LOL! I played it while running one of my Articulateds and by golly, it works, LOL!
Bob:
Now you've got to find a train WORTHY of the music, LOL! Something BIG of course!
I've already picked my music. Now all that I have to do is make a video (lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlEvy0fJto
Happy railroading
Bob
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I remember that video; in fact, it popped into my head while writing the post, I just couldn't remember the title of the video
Tom, I can't find the first piece online, but I foudn the second piece (Pacific 231) on youtube
I don't think anyone has ever written a better piece of music for subways than Duke Ellington.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5OvZtI-QUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5OvZtI-QUwatch?v=jQ5OvZtI QU
I chose "Take the A Train" because it's simply unequaled. OK, maybe Bach would have done a great job if he'd had the chance, but things didn't work out that way.
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