Steam sounds on BR(ER) 1956-61

[Bigmet]

Picked up an 'as new' CD on Monday still in its sealed wrapping, one of the ASV Transacord issues; a replacement for one I had owned previously, but which went missing. I have it playing at present, and as always with Peter Handford's recordings it reveals the total inadequacy of DCC sound effects - especially in their total failure to represent the LNER pacifics doing their thing at speed - which is that serious it should be made a capital offence.Some of the recordings were taken in my locality, which only further ices the cake, which was already a very good one as the price was all of 99p...

I may be in a blissed out trance like state for the rest of the week.

[aleopardstail]

its one of the drawbacks of DCC sound, the speakers are tiny

whats really needed is a proper multi speaker system under a layout and a sound system that can vary where the sound goes for a surround effect that follows the trains

[Bigmet]

...whats really needed is a proper multi speaker system under a layout and a sound system that can vary where the sound goes for a surround effect that follows the trains.

Would be good - but expensive. I simply play appropriate recording extracts, with the stereo sound stage roughly
aligned with the train movement. What with vision being direct line of sight, while sound for anything at some distance - such as over a quarter mile stretch of railway - is multipath; the brain is well practised in linking sufficiently appropriate sounds to moving objects...

[Phred]

Bigmet wrote:
I may be in a blissed out trance like state for the rest of the week.

Funny how some sounds are pleasant to one person's ears while being just noise to others. All about the images they evoke in our minds I suppose.
I suspect that I am one of the few people who genuinely find recordings of whale songs (without music backing) beautiful. The others are just pretending to show that they are in touch with their inner whatsit.

[Bigmet]

All about the images they evoke in our minds I suppose.

Very much so. In my childhood home we could hear up to four miles of the ECML on a cold still night, effectively my lullaby, a chime whistle is all it takes...
Daytime we had the regular racket of RR jet engines powering DH's products on final approach to Hatfield. No attraction in reproducing that! In compensation the De Havilland MRC's layout 'Havil' was the first model railway I recall, so may have something to do with the 'why' of pursuing this hobby. (That layout still exists, though now in slightly reduced form; what with no longer having large aviation assembly halls to exhibit it! http://www.dhmrs.co.uk/ )

[Phred]

Thanks for that link, Bigmet.
Some very fine modelling on there. I've bookmarked it so I can have a good look through later.