I got video of a buddies Big Boy steam engine here. My question is: is the sound correct for the engine? I don’t think it’s right but I’m not a steam expert by any means. Anyone?
I don’t know for sure but it sounds a bit “too small” to me. It may just be the microphone used. It sure is hauling a wad of cars around that bend though.
We thought that 72 empty ore cars wouldn’t be too big. The Genesis loco has about half a dozen choices for whistle. It’s not the mic: the whistle does sound that small.
Well the whistle should be quite a bit deeper in tone thats a given…As for the exhaust 'hard to say though thought it to should be deeper though seeing thwe video show’s it moving at speed i could be mistaken
What I hear with my speakers and ears is surprisingly unlike what my Lionel HO Challenger with QSI sounds like. The chuffs in your video are clunky and sound like the sound file belonging to a Mallet according to other videos of Mallets that I have watched on the web. I do not know enough to be able to say that the Challengers and Big Boys had roughly the same sounds in all respects, but…I think they were closer to each other than this model and the real things.
Just my opinion…and a guess.
Take a look at the following video. At about 3 minutes into the video a Big Boy blows its whistle. It sounds much deeper, like a steamboat whistle.
The model sounds like… a Y-6BigBoy!!!
Only half the proper number of exhaust beats (appropriate for a Y-6 running compound) and the typical Norfolk and Western ‘scream-whistle.’
Since I know exactly Zip-O about the modeling aspects of sound, that is as far as I wish to go.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan n September, 1964)
aha, I know we’re talking about the whistle but…did you also notice at about 55 seconds into the video, the flat car right behind the tender on that long train. guess they didn’t have trouble with light weight cars up front. thanks for sharing! I don’t know about that whistle, but I choose mine to what I like or what seems to sound best coming from my engines. I think it’s just real hard to capture a live steam sound in a scale device. The class J 4-8-4’s in HO scale bring yeas and nays too.