If you go to there website, you can hear the clip. I would post the link, but I think thats against forum rules so I won't.
This thing sounds AMAZING! I can't wait for this baby to come out! When you listen to it, you think you are back in time listening to the real thing.
A few months ago, Selector sent me a real recording of the actual T1 whistle, it sounds identical to Broadway's Q2.
rjake4454If you go to there website, you can hear the clip. I would post the link, but I think thats against forum rules so I won't.
rjake,
There's no problem at all with posting the web site link here on the forum. Here it is:
BLI PRR Q2 4-4-6-4 page with sample sound clip [fixed]
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
tstage rjake4454If you go to there website, you can hear the clip. I would post the link, but I think thats against forum rules so I won't. rjake, There's no problem at all with posting the web site link here on the forum. Here it is: BLI PRR Q2 4-4-6-4 page with sample sound clip Tom
BLI PRR Q2 4-4-6-4 page with sample sound clip
Cool, thanks. I just tried clicking on the your link but it says the page expired. Lets see if this works.
http://www.broadway-limited.com/prrq24-4-6-4.aspx
After hearing this whistle I feel like a kid again waiting for that new video game system to come out! Its so exciting, no better time than this to be a model railroader.
An awesome whistle on an equally awesome locomotive! I must have it!
Chris
I sure hope there is a way to turn off the chatter. It would spoil the experience for me to hear post transition era radio chatter on a steamer that didn't run past 1949!
The chuff sounds like they really worked on getting some realistic bass sounds out of their system. Woo hoo!!
-Crandell
selectorI sure hope there is a way to turn off the chatter. It would spoil the experience for me to hear post transition era radio chatter on a steamer that didn't run past 1949!
Indeed. That would be beyond weird. Anyway, it seems as if all the "extra" sound effects like people chatting and crossing gate sounds (if offered) are supposed to be controlled by a function key. That way you don't have to use them. At least that's the way I hope they engineer it.
i've heard a few steam engines run in my life but never one of these. is there anyone out there who remembers exactly what the Q2 sounded like? speak up if you are still around. this thing sounds like somebody beating on a drum to me. maybe it is a very loud air pump instead, but then they never sounded like a drum either. did they? it may impress the younger generation but not me.
grizlump (grouchy german)
Speaking to the radio "chatter" feature, did the Q2's survived till Pennsy started using thier trainphone system? That was in early form of radio between the caboose and the headend. All my PRR cabins and tenders sport the train phone antennas. So if it has the antenna pipeing on the tender deck, then the chatter would be prototypical, even on a steam engine. Mike
LHS mechanic and geniune train and antique garden tractor nut case!
Thats awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!! better then the T-1 duplex sound!!!!! are they still using QSI??? If so thats what I'll order off of QSI for my bowser T-1 duplex!!!!! That sound is more reallistic....Ok..paragon2,is that the maker of the sound system?
Oooh, can't wait for this one.
joseywales Thats awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!! better then the T-1 duplex sound!!!!! are they still using QSI??? If so thats what I'll order off of QSI for my bowser T-1 duplex!!!!! That sound is more reallistic....Ok..paragon2,is that the maker of the sound system?
This is the new Paragon 2 sound system, I have to admit, with this latest sampling, it far supercedes QSI, especially the bass.
And I'm a big fan of QSI too, but this new Q2 sound blows the sound of my QSI equippped T1 away!
Aftter the release of the Paragon 2 hudson, I was a little skeptical to say the least of Broadway's new sound system, but I just can't believe how far they have come now, they have really outdone themselves on this one.
Not meaning to sound like a skeptic, but I willing to bet there will not be that much bass! If there is, the break throught would be the speakers more than the decoder. All the BLI sound clips I have heard sound better than the engine when I got it. Main reason, unless you have a BLI Tender as your speakers, you have bigger and better speakers than they can shove in to a tender or a fule tank.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
joseywalesThats awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!! better then the T-1 duplex sound!!!!! are they still using QSI??? If so thats what I'll order off of QSI for my bowser T-1 duplex!!!!! That sound is more reallistic...
Josey, I swear by my LokSound decoders in my PCM Y-6b and PCM Big Boy. If you like I can send you a PM with a sound clip. If you going to buy off the Internet I would use Ulrich Models.
http://www.ulrichmodels.biz/servlet/StoreFront
Steve, the owner is very helpful. Plus he went way and above the call of duty helping me with custom programing my loksound decoders. IMHO the speakers make a bigger differences than the decoder. But, you still need a good decoder.
The jury is still out on the sound for me. The drum analogy is a good one. What bugs me is it doesn't sound like an articulated. Just one set of chuffs.
As I have found out from others and through trial and error, it's all about the enclosure. QSI's sounds are good, the files are of good quality. The Paragon2/Blueline sounds are ok, and also benefit from getting actual enclosures on the speakers.
Just take the shell off of any of your BLI tenders and put actual enclosures on those speakers and you'll hear the difference. They just stick a couple of speakers to the bottom of the tender and plop the decoder on top of it, and it doesn't translate. I'm in the process of doing this right now with a BLI Mikado. Just get one of the Tony's, or Litchfield, Soundtraxx, whatever plastic tube looking enclosures and put the speakers in there.