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The Sound of a 37!

bmthtrains - David

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My 37 with sound arrived today, and after having to work out what all the functions did - why no instructions??? - its been hauling my short engineering train around a circle of track on the kitchen floor!

 

Its been a really interesting afternoon, learning how to use the Dynamis controller, and the sounds themselves. As both new into OO and DCC, here's a short review of each:

 

The loco itself is a beautiful model, very heavy (I'm used to N gauge!), solidly made, and highly detailed. Bachmann have even put in a driver and opening cab doors which are nice touches. As for the sounds themselves, they sound pretty convincing to me, although there is no obvious 'volume' option, and might give me a bit of a headache after a while! It took some time to work out how to operate all the sounds to their best effect - if you start it up and let it run, it really just ticks over, building up with the F5 button gives it a nice good belly drawl as it pulls away!

 

Dynamis is a very nice system. I've only the one loco at the moment, so I will be interested to have a go at trying consists, and switching between locos on the controller. Its a lot smaller than I imagined, but I am very impressed by the ease of use - the throttle behaves far more realistically than on DC, and the inertia of the loco certainly has to be factored in when shunting!

 

DCC sound will only be a minor 'side' for me, as I will certainly continue to model in N - its benefits scream even louder when planning what kind of layout I could actually have in OO - but I can definately see me having a small OO gauge collection. Not just sound locos - though the Hornby 08 will be tempting! - but a few older loco types that are just nice to have as models to appreciate.

 

Overall I'm really pleased with this - a lovely Christmas present to myself - and will enjoy building the little shunting layout for the 37 to run on, but no matter how lovely it is, I still cannot understand why so many people with space limitations haven't switched to N. If you want to be able to run anything longer than a DMU, as I was hoping for with the third rail EMUs, you just cant do it! OO really must be about the locos themselves to modellers, as really, in a typical house, a short running plank or depot is all you can achieve.

 

My challenge to OO modellers would be to do what I've done in reverse - get one N gauge loco and see where it leads you! B)

 

Off to make more loco noises now!

 

David

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Guest Moria

Nice David

 

If I remember correctly there is a CV for volume. Please check this but memory says CV 63 with valies between 1 to 64 with 1 being lowest. I seem to remember a lot come with a value of 64 in them though.

 

May be worth a check :)

 

Regards

 

Graham

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James Hilton

The thing with N, I think, is the coupling. What are the alternatives? Whenever I see an N-gauge layout they always seem to use the rapido? I'd love to start - especially with the quality of some of the locos now! :)

 

I've a sound 37 too - got it for Christmas as well (and a Dynamis too!)... which one did you go for? Anyhow - yeah you can adjust the volume. Mine came with a sheet of the CVs and their uses - I played with the volume but ended up re-setting it.

 

Last time I had it out though I was having problems with my Dynamis loosing connection - and I think it was the base station. I'll get it out again and give it a good testing when the weather improves - as it's covered by a 12m guarantee through Bachmann.

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