Minor Sound Issue With MTH Crocodile

Paging Barry B!

Anyone else have this issue?

Art;

Do you have DCS?

If so, Select Menu, Sound, scroll to Cab Chatter and set to Auto.

If not, I'll have to look it up.

Were the crew to talk...would it be in English?

same with mine..now I wonder do he suppose to have random crew talk..!!!

 

and like you don't have the DCS system..only the remote commander, useless with the croc since it wasn't ship at factory default.

I  plan to get another "button box"  Commander and maybe I can access the chatter sounds, if they exist. My first box had defective LCD screen.

Not the Crocodile I heard at the local hobby shop, last Saturday!

Hi guys,

 

I don't know this for sure, but I think MTH may have set the cab chatter "OFF" on these engines as shipped.  A lot of 2-railers, especially in Europe, don't like the automatic cab chatter.  You may/should be able to turn the cab chatter on with a conventional mode reset of 1 whistle/5 bells.  I haven't received a Croc yet, so I can't confirm this information.  It's only an educated guess.

Nope. It would probably be in Schwytzerduetsch - a Swiss-German dialect. I have the modern Swiss Cargo electric and that's what mine has. It is a very difficult dialect to understand. I speak German, and I couldn't make head or tail of it, and I had a club member who is a native speaker of German listen to it, and he didn't understand it either. 

Ironic that so many complain that the cab chatter exists...at all...or is so "cheesy."  I guess it is not the same crowd that buys these European engines.

No, it's cheesy, regardless of the language. (My Chapelon 2-3-1 speaks French; I tried it

once.) Never use it.

Agreed, cab chatter is cheesy and annoying. I played mine to find out what language it was in, if it would be regular German or Schwyzerdeutsch, and to see if I could understand it. I detest cab chatter, especially the TMCC version that plays at the same time as PSA, so it ruins the PSA effect and you can't turn it off with a TMCC remote (I think there may be a way to turn it off in Legacy, which I don't have.)

I like cab chatter!

The engine should work as advertised.

 

It should be MY option to turn it off if so desired. 

Yes it is in Schwytzerduetsch..if remember properly, forum member Stefan Burki was involved in the recording...

I see cab chatter as pure fun...kind of cheesy...specially the last sentence on the croc with the "sputnik" brakeman complaining that the engineer is driving to fast..LOL...like everything else if people like them, use it, if not well don't..

 

 

COOL!  

I also am a fan of can chatter. I don't use it all the time but it is a nice alternative choice. I normally use it when running my layout for people. Occasionally I use it myself and really enjoy it. 

Just received the Taurus Electrics and I have not heard any cab chatter in neutral. The PFA and start up is fine and of course it is in German. Wish my grandmother was around since she was born near Hamburg and spoke native German. She could translate it for me. But to me it really does not matter. It's a great engine  with good sounds and the German language is something different to hear instead of English.

I know on a least some of the European engines MTH has a alternate sound file in English on their download page. 

So did the 1 whistle and 5 bells turn it on?  If MTH defaulted to off, I would imagine you can't turn it on conventionally and need DCS to activate.  Would be interesting to know.  G

I like cab chatter too.