Question here. I'd like to add passenger station sound effects that are activated by push button. Random station sounds with train announcements. Small sound board with speaker that I can drop in the station.
I use Greenway Products now for other scenes and they work great. They do offer a sound board for this but it has locomotive sounds in the background. My locomotives have their own sound systems so they will not work.
Any ideas?
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Well, Brian, with a first name like that, you have to have great ideas and this is an example of one. I love your idea of a push-bottom sound effect on demand. I would suggest not so much train sounds as most engines today provide this for you, but actual station announcements regarding arrivals and departures.
It will be interesting to see what Forum members come up with. The Lionel Station Sounds Diner cars have this function, but it would be nice to have this additional feature.
I found a website that had the Noma station announcements. I downloaded them into solid state message recorder (used a Philmore 80-146 kit but bought longer time message replacement chips from Digikey). I then constructed a unit to hold all five modules with a front panel knob to select the announcement. The speaker was placed under an MTH "disappearing passengers" platform. A manual button starts the recording when desired. Kludgy but works for me. Just not installed on new layout yet.
Look for the old MTH environmental sound modules on the auction sites. I have one that has station sounds that are fairly good, and another that has country sounds of crickets, a barking dog, and a running stream and bullfrogs sounds.
MTH offered at one time a passenger station sound effects module that played random announcements and station sound effects. It was more or less like a background type of effect with people talking and moving about with a random announcement etc. ITTC Train Technology also offers a host of railroad sound effects including passenger station announcements. www.ittproducts.com
If you happen to have the sound files, you can upload them to this 5 button system. It works great.
Jim they look really cool! Ordering a couple to play around with. Thanks for the link.
If you happen to have the sound files, you can upload them to this 5 button system. It works great.
I wonder if you can download the MTH Passenger Station sound sets?
No way I know of to download the passenger sounds from MTH. I do know of a guy that was working on separating the audio from their sound files.
TexSpecial is right on with his info above. If you do a YouTube search or even a Google search for sound effects, there are all kinds of great, free sound files.
I did this several years ago and burned a CD. Then I bought a couple of inexpensive CD/DVD players and ran speaker wire to various places, connected speakers under the layout, and now have sound effects where I want them. Works like a charm and now with today's technology one can have miniature speakers inside of buildings and even use your phone with wireless speakers to send sound to just about anywhere on the layout....
Alan
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