Sound Project for a loco not preserved -Neilson Crane Tank

[OliverSR]

Hi I have a kitbuilt Neilson Crane tank 0-4-0 inside cylinder loco in O gauge I’m looking to put sound in.

It’s a roxey mouldings whitemetal kit with plunger pickups and I’m aware I have to be very careful with insulation. I’ve had a look at the space provided and think I can fit a sugar cube speaker, stay alive(probably train-o-matic) and a loksound v5 micro. I have a suitable micro already but need it reblown with a sound project. I appreciate there won’t be any exact recordings of the obscure loco however is there any sound companies who could produce an approximation project or is it a case of finding the closest RTR loco and go with that sound project.

Hopefully someone has previous experience with this sort of thing or can recommend someone.

OliverSR

[Erixtar1992]

If you have a look on the ESU website you can select steam locos and have a look through their big library of sound projects to find one that sounds similar to what you want.

 

id have a look on Youtube to get some ideas of what you need.

 

can change out whistles ect too if needed 

[OliverSR]

As I’m not aware of any videos of the class running it will be guess work I can assume. ESU list a peckett sound file and as that’s a similar sized Shunter might be a good bet. I believe to reprogram loksound you need specialist kit which I don’t have or wish to purchase as I doubt I’d get tonnes of use out of it. Am I right that a company who supplies loksound chips and projects would possibly be able to sort as I will drop some emails if so.

OliverSR

[Dungrange]

On 08/05/2024 at 19:15, OliverSR said:

is it a case of finding the closest RTR loco and go with that sound project.

 

That's what I'd think.

 

50 minutes ago, OliverSR said:

I believe to reprogram loksound you need specialist kit which I don’t have or wish to purchase as I doubt I’d get tonnes of use out of it.

 

Yes, I believe that you'd need to purchase a Lokprogrammer to add the various sound recordings into the various sound slots.

 

52 minutes ago, OliverSR said:

Am I right that a company who supplies loksound chips and projects would possibly be able to sort as I will drop some emails if so.

 

I would imagine so, but unless you have a video or other recording of the sound of one running, what would they be sorting?  You'd have to tell them what sounds you want them to use for your project and obviously since you're looking for a bespoke project, all the time spent on it will be charged to you rather than spread over the few hundred Peckett projects they might sell.  If you don't know what it sounds like, the chances are they won't either.