Background Sounds with Tsunami2 and Blunami

[@irishfaire]

Good stuff....Love learning all the details about Soundtraxx products. Would like to learn more about why or why not to replace older Soundtraxx decoders. Thanks and keep up the good work! 🚂

[@scentgrasslakerailway]

Awesome!

[@ronaldrondeau7870]

thanks George

[@garypyke1576]

Any whoop sound on the GE unit?

[@danagibbs3265]

Yes. I have the N scale version and the air compressor sound plays immediately after starting the prime mover and every few minutes afterwards. The compressor stays on for I think 30 seconds at a time. It's also a separate sound so you can program it louder or quieter.

[@NCXDesigns]

Does the Steam Blunami have the same capabilities? Like I like hearing the air pump in rapid succession just before I make the locomotive begin hauling a long heavy train. It’s something I first heard at Strasburg up close on Locomotive 90. I know I can trigger it with a few presses of F12 but would be nice if I could just trigger the sound manually, I guess changing the frequency on Blunami would be easier. I swear by Tsunami2 cards, I like them better than LokSound just higher quality audio. But after this demonstration I think I want to do Blunami from now on With that in mind. Would I just need to have a power source on my tracks rather than a “cab” ? Sure seems like it would take the headache out of having to use a Powercab for example or less susceptible to short circuiting… I just had to send mine to be repaired because of that.

[@lewisschaller2078]

George if your not using a Blunami and only a Tsunami2 is there a program that allows you to adjust the settings this easily and see what is what visually?

[@NCXDesigns]

According to the DCC Guy, Decoder Pro does this on your computer. You need to hook up your Power Cab to a USB board to connect it tho. So it’s probably not as flexible as having it on your phone/tablet because it needs your computer to do take everything from the decoder and make an Ui on the PC. I think tho after watching this I’m gonna make all my future decoders Blunami instead of Tsunami

[@BrandonWagner93]

George on the Blunami can I set up my advanced consists through the app for when the consist is running on DCC instead of the app?

[@russcole5685]

I'm starting to really like the simplicity of this Blunamy system. As I only have a simple Bachmann EZ command controller. I'm assuming I can set the CV's with a cell phone/lap top, and the still run and operate bells ect through my simple controller without the need to spend Hundreds on a more expansive controller?

[@mafarnz]

On a Blunami decoder ALL CV’s and functions can be set and controlled from the app. You can use the Bachmann controller to just provide power and set/run everything on the app. I love the simplicity of this it’s just a lot more fun to use.

[@russcole5685]

@mafarnz thanks for the reply, do I have to use the app to run and operate the train's, or can I use app to program, and then run train's as usual using my simple Bachmann EZ command controller. I'm asking because I only have that controller, and bachmann locos at this stage. With bachmann ez command DCC track turnouts. I brought a second hand F7A/B unit pair that have sound, but one of them has been changed out with a tsunami decoder. I need to speed match ect. I'm thinking now about changing all to Blunamy so I can speed match, run ect. But still use the EZ command controller for the driving

[@mafarnz]

@ you can use the app just to program, they are a fully functional DCC decoder that can be run from any DCC throttle/station.

[@russcole5685]

@@mafarnz thanks for clearing that up for me. It's just what I'm looking for 👍

[@105C09]

Most impressive. Lionel/MTH products are in the stone age compared to this.