Legacy diesels would sound even better...

Lionel already tried this with their CSX Superbass units.http://www.lionel.com/Products/Finder/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductNumber=6-28305&expandBranch=&Keywords=&CategoryID=0&RailLineID=&CatalogId=

Interesting....did it create a nice effect?  I have only been buying trains for the last two years, I have not seen the "Legacy Super Bass" feature on any recent engines.  I wonder if it will appear again in the future.

 

I've never heard one in person, but I believed folks were quite pleased with the sound, maybe someone that owns one will chime in. 

I have one.  I didn't notice any tremendous difference in the sound, but then again I don't currently have Legacy, so maybe that feature is "hidden" from me.  Maybe it's only accessible if you're running it using Legacy.

 

- Mike

Keep in mind, this "superbass unit" is an unpowered unit with directional lighting and smoke along with dual baby fatboys in a speaker enclosure. Lionel has not offered "superbass in a powered unit for obvious reasons. Heres a video,kind of tough but I think  you can hear the improved "low end" a bit especially when the loco is directly in front of the camera. FWIW dual fatboys are pretty much standard in scale legacy steamers these days.

Hi RickO I didn't know that Lionel offered that super bass in the past, also thanks for posting the video. It's sounds pretty good.

 

Thanks, Alex

What we need is a small Bluetooth Tx in each loco that can send audio to an undertable subwoofer that has built in Bluetooth Rx. Bass is omnidirectional so it doesn't matter where the speaker sits. I've been saying that for years. Maybe one of these days I'll actually set up a demo.

I own a super bass unit and the video RickO posted is my video from you tube. The center unit#610 is the super bass unit while the other 2 units are powered. The super bass unit does bring out the low end sounds. It also is much louder than the other 2 units. The horn that you hear is also from the super bass unit. I do this by using the legacy sound masking feature when building the lash up. This allows me to turn the horn off on the lead unit and the horn on for the super bass unit and still allowing the ditch lights to flash on the lead unit. Though the ground does not shake it does make a big difference. There are a couple of other videos on my you tube channel mrengineergeorge with the super bass unit. One of which explaining the sound masking feature.

I live right near the CSX main. The deep base you can feel it. To achieve this I was think of adding subwoofer speakers under the layout. Active this sound via stationary accessory tmcc controller. What I miss is the airbrake blow off noise. Very cool, wish Lionel would add it their sound chips.

I like the sub idea. I own a superbass and the sounds are very nice, more "full"

Didn't Eliot (Scrapiron) install some pretty sophisticated sound enhancements to his layout last year?  How did it turn out?

You can only get so much bass from the speaker size that can be put in an O gauge model. Now in saying that jonnyspeed has the right idea, it can be done but at what cost. I have the super bass unit but it is still not there imo.

 

Dave

It's not that difficult to design a wireless link to enhance the bass.  There are many Bluetooth chips available that will handle much of the protocol issues.  I think the harder part would be to mix all the incoming audio streams and make a decent sound.   Also, depending on how many locomotives were running, you could run into a communications channel congestion issue.