Opinions on PS3 sounds

Sound can be very subjective.

Loud may be a desired quality for a public show but much softer sounds scaled not just to distance but as a desire to let a train "disappear" into the background while another train's presence occupies the closer audible focal point.

Loud sounds of one or more locomotives running around a layout of any size seems IMO to make it smaller.  As a 2 rail modeler I prefer sound to be scaled.  tt

Thanks Barry, will play around with sound mix when I get the DCS system, can't wait, more toys to play with.

Hopefully MTH will release resampled sound files for some of their newer PS3 engines that will improve sound even more above ps2.

I have the Railking PS/3 Santa FE 4-8-4 Imperial Northern and I must say I was disappointed with the sound. It seemed lower than normal and at speed you could barely hear the chuffs at all. Is that normal?

I am with Tom on this one....I have turned down the sound on my steamers especially.  For a locomotive that is supposed to be a scale distance away, they should not be over powering sound-wise.  Just as Tom said above, it makes the layout seem smaller if the sound is loud since the locomotive never "goes away"....

Alan

That's the way I see it, too!  I try to "scale" the sound levels to what I believe the locomotive should/would sound like when viewed from a reasonable distance.

Clem,

Don't know of a good way to do that here, maybe some of the more advanced users will have some tips. I see a lot of posts referring to other threads, but I don't know how they readily find those? The forum search function is all I can think of here, but I'm not real good with searches and usually have only limited success.

I made a small database in Filemaker and try to enter just enough info so I can easily look up topics later. For the OGR threads, I cut & paste the title and url link to the thread so I can call it up later on. Bookmarks in your browser might be another idea, but I haven't had much success with that either.

I also made another Filemaker Database for my train stuff after not finding anything ready made that fit my needs. I know just enough in Filemaker to cobble a few things together here & there, nothing very advanced.

Don't want to get us off topic here, but I think this would be a good topic to start some time in a separate thread. Keeping track of your train info or something like that?