Farm sounds

Look in the Scenery Sourcelist under ITT Products.

Along with the scenery source list maybe you could google search too. Many years ago QSI did some sound boxes for a number of scenes. Not 100% sure but one of them may have been farm sounds.............Paul

QSI made the Sound Boxx. They made a farm animal one with chickens, cows and pigs. They come up on E-bay. I have a few of them and they are very reliable and adjustable. Keep a lookout for them. Don

thanks guys

ITT. Com has all kinds of sound blocks. And you can buy the speakers as well.  I have the Saw Mill sounds and the Helicopter one as well!

MRC made a sound unit that made all kinds of sounds. There are a few farm sounds among others. It was discontinued, but you can still find them for fairly cheap. I have the loco sounds version and the sounds are good. The only con is the low volume. There is no line out, so getting it louder would be a challenge.

It is called, AA552 city and country sound station.

Where's Farmer Bill?

Radio Shack used to have a module that you could record yourself.  I'm working on one, but I haven't brought it out yet.

For a low volume solution, you can look at bigDAWGS Greeting Card Modules, you can record anything you like.  I used several of these with a DC power source, but they're not all that loud.  As long as it's not real noisy, they work pretty well.  A good baffle on the speaker helps the volume a bunch.

I found a lot of sounds on websites for free. I got crickets, dogs, cats both 'meow' and cat fight.  Just about anything is possible. I then downloaded them onto a chip I bought off ebay for less then $5.  Hit a button and sound plays for around 30 sec.....plenty really. 

Some of the Ertl toy farm sets had sounds.  The one I used has the sounds in the silo.  Apply  batteries and push the button(s).  The large flat block at the bottom of the silo.

A google search for "farm sounds" results in several useful links, such as this one.

Do a search on eBay for "record & playback module" and many will come up for around $3. Note some record & playback for 10 seconds, others for 20.

Play (from link above) whichever sounds you want, record them with the module(s), and then play them back.

That is what I did for the sound of my home made (video included) Jugband concert hall. 

Alex

Fredstrains posted:

ITT. Com has all kinds of sound blocks. And you can buy the speakers as well.  I have the Saw Mill sounds and the Helicopter one as well!

I was looking at those. They seem pretty good. Two questions - how's the sound quality & can you power the board off AC?0

There are some farm sounds I don't think would be good for kids, especially from old farmer Arnold I used to work for. I learned lots of new words those summers when I was young making hay!

Christopher:

I haven't tried this, but the first thing that leapt to mind would be to get a low-cost, low-capability iPod on eBay, load it with sound files you download from the Internet, and just put it on shuffle.  You could play it back through small speakers hidden in a barn.  The iPod itself could be hidden with it, or just attached to your control panel somewhere so you could easily activate it.

This is a variant of Alex's (INGENIERO NO 1) suggestion above, but it's a bit lower tech.

HTH.

Steven J. Serenska

The ipod idea may work.  I have protools on my laptop, so I can easily mix a bunch a of files together & make a loop & then save it as an MP3

Christopher2035 posted:

Fredstrains posted:

ITT. Com has all kinds of sound blocks. And you can buy the speakers as well.  I have the Saw Mill sounds and the Helicopter one as well!

I was looking at those. They seem pretty good. Two questions - how's the sound quality & can you power the board off AC?0

Yes, the Quality is very good & Yes, I run them off of one of my Accessory Transformers!

Fred

I have a QSI Soundbloxx farm sounds module I was going to put on online auction, but I'd be happy to post mine in the buy/sell forum if you're interested.  If I read the rules correctly, that's the only approved way to do this.

Jerry