Crew talk

Nope, but it's pretty cool anyway.

Was this an MTH engine?  They have random crew Dialogue.  "Crew Talk" tends to be a Lionel term.  So if it was an MTh engine it will periodically do that if sitting idle.   G

Yeb its a mth ps2 mountain type steamer.

I find the random crew dialogue extremely annoying.  

This thread captures a dilemma I face when developing Lionel's CrewTalk and TowerComm dialog. On one hand, it is fun to hear specific, realistic dialog. But on the other hand, when creating the dialog, I do not know what the track action will be (let alone the operator's imagination) in moment the dialog will play. In other words, really specific dialog is "jarring" when it does not relate to the current action on the layout. 

In this case, sounds like the dialog played to great effect! Please post a link to the clip when it's up on YouTube.

Rudy Trubitt

Director of Audio

Lionel, LLC

Lee, why not turn off Cab Chatter?

Can you turn off crew talk ?

I do.  It is just so annoying.  Ugh.  I wish it would come with it turned off, and if you wanted it you had to turn it on.

Lee,  You seem to be older than the I want it my way now generation...  Really too hard to turn off? Than we would have the too hard to turn on guys complaining.

Nice that the original poster got an effect he really liked! Priceless. G

A buddy of mine has an MTH GS4, about 10 or so years old now.  Every so many seconds, it belts out what sounds like a junior high school kid reading off a written script for the school play..  No thanks.  And what's realistic about "crew chatter" anyways?  When I see a steam engine in real life, it's so **** loud the last thing you can hear is what the crew is saying on the radio, even if you're standing by the cab.  I've got 5 mainline trains plus five trolleys going on my layout at the same time; about the only sound I can hear (and WANT to hear, for that matter) during all this is a whistle/horn when I click the button.  Everything else is drowned out by postwar Pullmor motors, which sound way more realistic, to me, than some Chinese computer chip could emulate anyways.

How the heck can you turn off the MTH random chatter?  Especially when the engine is run in the conventional mode?