Background Sound System for Your Model Railroad

[@robertweldon7909]

So, now I know what you did for a living. Very cool and very involved profession. On top of that you are an electronic tech, model builder, scenery designer, and multi diverse "toy" collector, otherwise known as a multi-media expert. I wonder if my old copy of Adobe Soundbooth can do this stuff (I have CS3 Master Collection) which really dates my education. I'm more print graphics oriented. This is a very interesting video. Although I understand the process, I was left a bit confused, due to the involved process. It makes me appreciate professionals, like you, who create all the neet soundtracks, which we all just take for granted. ;-)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sound booth is GREAT. if it still works. Along time ago they changed to monthly subscription. But if you have the old one you buy, better!!

[@kenshores9900]

Dale: To good. I usually glaze over on electronic videos but not the case here! You have shown us a way to build and record sounds for your rail road sound system. Never boring, always interesting and unique.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi Ken. Thanks 🙏!

[@kenshores9900]

@@ToyManTelevision We knew a guy that was a sound mixer for Columbia Records in Terre Haute, In. Back in the old days. He had an Wollensak 16 channel mixer in his office.

[@dkaustin98]

You need to add in that "once in awhile" wood frame screen door slam caused when someone enters and exits. You may remember being told as a kid to not slam the door.

[@bernardc2553]

Dale = man with many hidden talents you never cease to amaze me,BTW love your lily pads Karen

[@ToyManTelevision]

Didn’t the Lilly pads come out great??!!

[@vincentcalvelli6452]

The addition of background sounds bring a new level of realism to logging railroad -Great Job-

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi again! Thanks

[@ValConB]

I have been pondering how to get sound effects on our Dickens Christmas Village; this looks like just the thing! Thanks a bunch for sharing.👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Works great!!! Simple too. Really. Seems complicated at first. But after you try it it’s really easy.

[@garyacker7388]

Your lighting is something that I didn't anticipate. Excellent job.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just finished the overhead wifi lights!

[@felice12151]

Great video and very timely as I have been searching for a simple background sound system for adding cattle sounds at my stockyard scene.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s great too. Easy to use.

[@valeriebassett3107]

Great video as always! Have Happy 4th. Stay safe and healthy so we can enjoy both of you and what you share through you fantastic railroad videos. ❤️🎇🇺🇲

[@MygrandpasTrain]

That little player might be what I need to add sound to my HO/ American Flyer railroad, including engine sounds, since none of my trains have built in sound. Fascinating video, as all yours are! Now I know why the audio in your videos is so good too, a professional sound man! (That must be why I spied a pair of Klipshorns? and a LaScala in one of your older videos?) My grandfather was an engineer on the Chicago Northwestern, and I install audio systems commercially so I have a love for both high quality audio (including Klipsch) and collecting and running model trains!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. K horns. Bought them in 1977. Added LaScalia center. Have two. May add the second one as well, I have it. Carver amps. 2,000 wats. Anyway bet few garages have that! Yup this little board rocks!!! Simple. Cheep. Could be used for many many things.

[@FunAtDisney]

When I heard the “eerie swamp” track I immediately thought of the opening bayou scene of Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean that I was on just the other day. It’s the part where you leave the dock and go around the Blue Bayou restaurant as you make your way to the first drop. Amazing how a certain sound can just trigger your memories. And amazing that after 54 years that is still the quintessential Disney ride!

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

Laughing Kookaburra could be another one but of course we don’t have them here in North America. I heard them plenty of times in the total of 6 months I’ve spent in Australia.

[@stevemellin5806]

Fantastic looks and sounds great . looking forward to seeing more

[@ToyManTelevision]

Figures next. But I need to gather courage and mount it on the wall and backdrop and get back on the lower track!

[@gardenrailroading]

So Cool, Thanks Dale and Karyn

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks again!!

[@Brianrockrailfan]

Great video 👍 Happy 4th of July🎆🎇

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi! Happy freedom right back!

[@russellloomis4376]

This is very very cool! Although my layout is by no means the size of yours. I still would love to have some types of background sounds on it. Thank you guys for sharing this.👍👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ours is small. Large scale! But so far, small.

[@NYCJDClark]

Your figures look great and the background sounds sound great. Adding background sounds add so much to a layout, it really helps to set the scene. Well done.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Thanks!!!!

[@robertdavies5501]

Wow, that's wild !!! 👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ToyManTelevision]

Fun too. Going to add many more

[@ronalddwyer6592]

I love the back ground sound system. It makes it more realistic. I have though about adding it to my layout. I like to add it too with train trip sensor either optical or magnetic detector on the tracks. Then get sounds like trains crossing a wood trestle bridge, etc.. Thanks for the information and video on how to make sounds and the electronic circuit. The layout is looking and sounding fantastic. Be safe and look forward to Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@wmjwell]

Amazing, sounds so real. Great job.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

Happy forth toyman!!!! She is a buity and the lights make her perfect in the dark..

[@805ROADKING]

Always liked your Juke Box Collection, it was nice to get a better look at them!! Roadking has a 1953 Seeburg HF100G and a couple of 3w1 Wallboxes!!☺

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Gotta love jukeboxes right? My faves are “war era”. Light up. 1937 to 1948 ish. Just those few years.. and look what was made!! It’s like the Beatles. 9 years. Just 9 years but omg..

[@jvanamb]

I LOVE IT! GREAT TUTORIAL ON DIGITAL AUDIO EDITING. I will be reviewing it numerous times till I get it straight. I have a few sound cards that I have paid others load and install for me. Now I can do some of the job. No offense but I don't have nor like GPI "buttons". So when I have successfully learned your technique, I will start to integrate track IRs, room motion detectors, & Arduino triggers. Then when visitors or rolling stock pass the detectors the sound cards will fire. That part of animation I'm good at. I also love what your doing with the speakers. NOT in our train room but in our Bar we have a 1947 Seeburg Juke Box, my GrandFather "aquired" from a former neighborhood Juke Joint. So I may follow your lead next week for that room. But back to the trains. IF I can pull off the digital sound editing to card. Then the GPI switching. I WILL be looking for a way to disguise the mini-speakers as buildings or scenic details on the layout. "HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT." And even if I can't get the techtronics right my 7, 8, 11, & 17 year old grandkids came do all that kind of stuff without you. No offense meant. I'll keep watching, ~Jim

[@samfuller6273]

Very cool 😎

[@aoac1]

Great job guys! Love it. And thanks for including Mr. Howes input for the board, hadn't heard of that one. Thanks!

[@bernardc2553]

Adding a Exciting, whole new "Spectrum" to Modeling OUTTA THE PARK U2 .

[@gardenrailroading]

It really is a great addition to any railroad. Most everyone has train engine sounds, not many add realistic everyday sounds

[@johnrettig1880]

It does look like you have almost every frog sound that there is Except for the three most famous frogs ... Bud Wis Er

[@billpihl1]

You guys always amaze me. I am just at the point that I am going to add sound for my layout and here you are with the answer, Thank you, You guys are AWESOME , NO PUNS I still miss pun central LOL Keep up the great work and thank you for a GREAT vlog.

[@johnrettig1880]

Don't forget to add Pine needles on the roof top and scattered around pretty much every where . I use Jute Twine separated to individual strands and in 1/20'th scale I would say cut them between 1/4 of an inch and 3/8 of an inch long

[@everettthepetractionguy4222]

This is so interesting! I really gotta learn this stuff, even though I'm a traction guy (a lover of trolleys, interurbans and heavy electrics). I'm not computer savvy so I'll have to do some research and then incorporate the background sound to an HO traction layout I hope to build, hopefully, in the near future.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s so easy. Trick is finding the right sounds. Built it!

[@seanpacificrailroad3700]

Love it sounds amazing 🤩

[@robertrivera9162]

Wow that's so cool, what movies have you worked on? Everything looks so real and the sound really pulls everything together.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check IMDb. Soooo many. Do watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIezY4SemamJncU

[@ToyManTelevision]

And kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJebe3WPpZZ7qac

[@daviemaclean61]

Of all your collections that one must take up the least space! ;-)

[@davidorf3921]

Well I'm currently building a little H0 scale water powered forge with a pair of working waterwheels and your video has meant that I'm now thinking about adding sound as well as motion and lighting

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do it. It’s really cool and fun.

[@jacobramsey7624]

Nice sounds!! I love sound effects!!! By the way, HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERY ONE!!!! 🇺🇸

[@ToyManTelevision]

No fireworks. So we bought LED stuff. Should be FUN.

[@tgmccoy1556]

Great sounds the sound card os perfect.

[@ToyManTelevision]

That card is great

[@magnificus8581]

Thank you for the great video! About to do this for my layout, so the timing was perfect

[@rogerstrate5727]

You guys never cease to amaze me. I loved this video

[@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877]

Great sound system, ill need to get some of the boards. Right now im useing bluetooth mini speakers eather sounds from my tablet or sd cards pre recorded off my pc. I also use the app , Railroad Companion for my in train speakers . Can the board sound stop playing after its aloted segment and reset to off? Thinking of placing speaker on big curve mountain for wheel squeal effect. ...

[@BCSchmerker]

+ToyMan *Did ye factor in the autogongs for the grade crossings?* The Magnetic Flagman® (Magnetic Signal Company, unfortunately, is five decades defunct) uses a ringer on the signal-lamp armature that strikes the gong opposite the lamp arm at each end of stroke. Union Switch and Signal and competitors used a separate autogong for their autoflags; that solution demised to the electromechanical wigwags that replaced the autoflags under code in the 1950's. The Song cited was actually from two Italian pop composers, and Gus Levine at Capitol Records acted as producer and conductor: *VOLARE / DEAN MARTIN* (Capitol/Universal single EAP1-1027) (Migliacci Francesco/Modugno Domenico) Curci Edizioni S.r.l., SIAE/Universal Music - Robbins, ASCAP

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Yup. Have one of those gongs right here. 12 volt! LOUD. Planning to record it. In spite of my slow down they spotted the music and have taken the monetizing if they want it. Oh well… great song.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hum. A slightly different bell. I’ve seen and heard that one. They have one in use in Ely Nevada. I should record that one too!! Slower strike.

[@davidwayneprins]

this soundboard may be the answer I've been looking for to add an Arduino based railroad crossing to the layout. The bell part was proving to be a problem as it was bogging down the Arduino, keeping it from flashing the lights correctly.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I’m just using the triggers, but there is a databus and you can talk to Arduino with it.

[@startrek91481]

Audacity is very similar to Cool Edit Pro, which I used at the radio station I worked. Adobe bought Cool Edit Pro and is Audition now. I never used the Adobe version.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And then sound booth. Sort of. But they are mostly the same.

[@Fogheart1]

Hey, firstly, fantastic video and very interesting for someone who doesn't have their own model railroad! I'm an audio person helping a friend to bring some life to their railroad and I was wondering; Are you able to trigger multiple sounds simultaneously using the Adafruit soundboard? For example, I was thinking of having an ambient loop that plays constant as well as sounds for the Junction box levers being triggered when the trains approach the junction. Would this work?

[@rangerstl07]

Tree frogs are the only animal that can keep 2/3 of it's body weight stored as urine and expell it all in 1/8 of a second... Great googley moogley.

[@Bigbuddyandblue]

So you’re going to play a frog sound effect when a train goes through a turnout. 😊

[@ToyManTelevision]

🚀👍🚞

[@theragingdolphinsmaniac4696]

Why not place speakers under the features you want the sounds to come from and run those sound effects separately? That will give a surround sound, 3-dimensional effect depending on where you are at the layout, and you won't have to do all that mixing.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. That’s the plan on other things. This is background sound. And with the speakers about 8 feet apart you really can’t tell where the sound is coming from! But some sounds will be for areas or structures. The coaling tower will have a track. (I recorded it in about 1986). The turntable will have a track. The creek in the big canyon and so on.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ps. Love your logo. There’s a story there.

[@theragingdolphinsmaniac4696]

@@ToyManTelevision A story that started long ago in 1970. Are you a Dolphins fan?

[@michaelsmiley15]

It's all right it's been enough time if you're vaccinated get out there and rediscovered those abandoned railroads because that's what fans really want to see

[@richardterek3744]

I Think the banker is going to call the local constabulary for violation of noise ordinances

[@ToyManTelevision]

Both the banker and the constabulary are wearing in the traditional accoutrements for their profession. I have been researching hats. As I’m putting hats on many of the figures and I want to make sure that everyone is wearing the proper hat for their job. I used to hold to a theory that said that John F Kennedy was assassinated by haberdashers who were offended by the fact that he refused to wear a hat. They loved Johnson because he wore a Stetson. But that’s just one of those conspiracy theories that I hold to.

[@magnificus8581]

Could you provide a link to the 3W amplifier? Thanks!

[@timothyboles6457]

Why is that when you are talking about the soundtrack I think of fantasia and how he was interviewed

[@COSF101]

🦗🐸🚂

[@debbiemilka2251]

does anyone have a sound effects system that has the sound of squealing wheel sets for rolling stock. I have been trying to find an example of it and so far I have had no success. Something that could be in several pieces of freight cars as they pass by on the layout. Thanks for a fantastic train video site !

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi and I’ve seen it. Er.. heard it. But I can’t remember the guys name. Let me look. Back I a few.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hum….. can’t find it. The guy may be gone. But you can make that with this board. Easy! The sound is out there. Just download it. www.soundjay.com/train-sound-effect.html

[@debbiemilka2251]

@@ToyManTelevision Thank you Toy Man. Being in Barstow really got me interested. It would be fun to have a classification yard with this sound paying. Even if things weren't moving it would strongly hint that something was.