... <enginears@...> wrote: ...How's the micro pike coming along? Jim, I'm seriously thinking about taking it with me to the Narrow Gauge Convention in...
... Hello Donald, Your post got me looking at audio converters and I found one out there that might be better suited to out interests. AUDACITY is an open...
Dear Jack, Check out the Files and Links area, Audacity has been the "default starter Audio Editing App" for the majority of the list members ;-) Some of the...
Hey Professor How goes the project ? Have not heard anything on this for awhile. Regards Frank [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dear Frank, Apologies for the silence, work has been hitting hard, and I realised that I had "painted myself into a corner" with some of the structrural ...
Hey John, Just got back from our trip 'Down East', including an incredible but short stay with Artie & Nancy Fahie in Maine. The Sn2 Barr Mills showroom...
Hey Stan, Just getting caught up... so if I read you right you are not even using all of the line level, that's amazing, and really good news. To be honest, I...
Dear Professor, I know you are working feverishly on your display so I won't pester you... much:). But I do want to reinforce the importance of the ...
Most of the speakers are merely cheap CD player speakers - some bought with the CD players. At the volume I play them I don't need HiFi. Will be checking out...
Hey Stan, Got it, but what size(s) are the speakers (the actual speaker cones)?! Just to count rivets here, you DO have HiFi (delity:). jim ... -- The Model...
Dear Jim, A quick Q, were the NYC streetlights you saw Orange or "Bluish-White"? I've ordered some LEE gels, but am agonising over the current era prototype...
The two speakers for the harbor sounds are 2 inch plastic enclosures that came with the speakers. The others installed are inside enclosures I built and can...
Dear Professor, All lights we saw were yellow (incandescent), or orange (whatever:)... but saw nothing blue on any NY street! We went through Brooklyn and ...
Thanks Stan, That seems to be standard for that type of speaker. The one pair I have here are about 2" dia. (as i recall). I have a bunch of 2 1/8'' speakers...
Hey all, A wonderful fellow has been working on this for several years now: http://www.nacservicesinc.com/ We first met Walter Naumann at the 2000 NMRA...
Dear Jim, RE Streetlights Bluish-White = Mercury Vapour Orange = High Pressure Sodium Yellow = stock Incandecent Check these pics out for some "rough tests"...
I'm looking for a sound module that you can load your own sounds to. I thought I had seen a device that you could do this with that used a usb cable. I do know...
Hey Dale, You might also be thinking of ITTC HQ modules: http://www.ittproducts.com/ George Solovay is a terrific guy, and if you ask nicely, he will often ...
Dear Dale, It's not a USB connectable device, but the DreamPlayer will accept up to 4 independently triggerable WAV files, loaded onto a stock SD card, (the...
Dear Crew, A little while ago, John Tryon Hubbard had a measure of success combining a DreamPlayer and a MRC stationary "Sound box" steam sound rig under his...
Dear Professor, You might be able to do the same thing with a soundtraxx DSX decoder (the cheap ones:), if you can find one... they're still around. I hope ...
None of the older Soundtraxx decoders (DSD or DSX) work on DC power, strictly DCC ===================================== Youth & Skill are no match for Age &...
Hey Chris, Professor, Oops! Sorry. Any of the newer DCC decoders that do work in some limited way with DC would do the job, though. One could even use a WOW...
Dear Jim, Chris, I guess my biggest concern is that I do not want to have the "available control range" of my analog throttle "knobbled" by some parasitic DCC...
Hi Dale, besides the already mentionned HQ-modules and the dream player, you could also (ab)use an MP3-player (many can also playback WAV not only MP3, they ...
Dear Crew, Just discovered the "SoundBug" SFX004 unit from Digitraxx. http://www.digitrax.com/prd_mobdec_sfx004.php While it's billed as a "piggyback" board...
Dear Professor, I heard rumblings that with 'the bug' its more like 50% throttle to get the sound started. You could do what I did with the Whitby and find ...
Dear Crew, Must admit to finding myself in unfamiliar territory, so thought I'd ask some friends... Am currently working on a small HO layout that uses a...
John Use the flourescent green or red light transmitting plastic. This stuff is great as it glows strongly at edges anywhere the surface is scratched/etched. ...