If you want ROAR you should experience trestling some time. Once you've
sat a couple of feet underneath a 60-car train and feel the WHOOMP ...
WHOOMP ... WHOOMP ... of the cars going by a few inches from your ears,
you carry that sound in your chromosomes for life.
That said, another "bravo!" on the emulation!
>
> Now, speaking as a longtime railfan who's stood alongside the tracks at
> 3:00AM and just drank in this sort of thing...there should be much more of
> a roar as the locomotives pass. The only thing louder than this roar are
> the horns themselves. Also, the "song" of the horns is close but not quite
> right. The pattern for approaching a grade crossing goes like this:
>
> long long short looooonnnnngggg (with the last one whizzing by center stage
> just as it's about to fade out for maximum dramatic effect).
>
> But like I said--people are not train fanatics would be amazed as it is.
>
> >I am
> >interested in the train horn sounds and have wondered about their
> >tunings. I found these links.
> >
> >http://atsf.railfan.net/airhorns/index.html
> >
> >http://www.dieselairhorns.com/sounds.html
>
> Yes, I have wondered about those tunings!
>
> >Here you can find recordings of actual train horns and a good deal of
> >information about them. If you think about it, train horns are part of
> >the mystique of the train. Not just an attention-getting device, a
> >train horn carries a message of weighty authority, at the same time
> >musical to the ear. The people who built them must have intended to
> >project an image of the corporation that owned the trains, too, I
> >imagine. The sound does not have much 'brand recognition' to the casual
> >bystander, but to afficianados horns must be like fine wines in their
> >aesthetic characters. It is such an immediate, stunning sound, you
> >hardly stop to ponder its origin.
>
> You're preaching to the choir. I have no horns in my collection. 8^(
>
> Another part that Ken might have some trouble simulating without special PA
> equipment is the wake--the wind that blasts you in the face about thirty
> seconds after the train goes by. Some very large drivers that can handle a
> large, sustained (minutes in duration) DC signal would be needed for this
> effect. My stereo isn't up to the task...
>
> --
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
----------------------- Tear Along Dotted Line -----------------------
John Neilson
jneil@... this message brought to you by 'e-mail' -- safe, clean, Modern!