big jim

here is bryans latest sound chip fitted into the new 28xx/38xx model from Hornby, it has all the same functions as the castle chip including whistles, sleeper grind, injectors, safety valve, coupling etc.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhXI1ZcuSc there is another shorter video in the products section in the Hornby 28xx thread but this video shows off a few more functions than the other one bryan has fitted the chip in the tender under which he has put a larger 28mm round speaker, i think he said he had to dremel a bit of the tender chassis out, the sound resonates nicely in the tender and i think it gives a nice crisp, sharp "chuff" enjoy, and comments welcome as usual

another updated video from me, this time 40145 shunting warmington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPLE6irMbE8 sounds by howes as usual, i do need to adjust a couple of cvs on the loco as it pulls away a bit quick!!

a quick one from me, updating my vidoes uing my better quality camcorder, this one is the howes 31 in a Hornby loo, resprayed into network rail yellow, the loco has a ported bass speaker fitted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_N4ixSZ4hs

couple more videos from me, nothing new but these pair hadn't been run on bobs layout before, the other advantage being they are recorded on the new camcorder, there is a lot of noise from the wheels of the wagon the camera is sat on but they vids have come out very well first up my chiltern 165 with the usual howes sounds the soundchip does not step down at 50mph so it seems to scream round the layout as it is using the original howes 158 as a basis for the sounds, hopefully bryan will be able to adjust it when i visit next http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu055ZB21A4 next up the Bachmann 150/2 with howes sounds as usual, unfortunatly bobs contorller only goes up to 12 functions and my "station announcement" recordings are higher up, this time the train stops in the station (we forgot to take the tools off the platform!) to demonstrate the door sounds etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41dEoHQm6A i should all being well have a couple more chips tomorrow, a class 37/4 and a class 67, once i get them i'll post a couple of vids up here

couple more from me, nothing new again but i've bought a new (2nd hand) camcorder and am trying it out, the quality is loads better than the mobile i've been using previously, its not HD but its DVD quality i will have a few more new howes locos to try out tomorrow including a Bachmann 03, reblown Hornby castle and a revised howes peak

recorded a few more video's the other day, nothing new but enjoy anyway CLASS 92 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE7NwqtKDok UNREFURBISHED CLASS 37 SHUNTING ROUND THE DEPOT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rdit79JFI8 CLASS 40 COMING ON SHED FOR FUEL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcmOboTZqI COMPARISON BETWEEN NON LOW EMISSION AND LOW EMISSION CLASS 66'S http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fjAyW7Yq4

found a few old vids on a memory card yesterday which i've uploaded to youtube, all recorded on 250BOB's layout, i originally uploaded them to photobucket but here they are via youtube: standard 5 being banked by a class 25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWeADhiXsJk britannia being banked by the super D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GUUelfzpv4 there are more up there including an 08, 66 and 153 doing runs of the layout

i think tornado does the draincock thingy too, will have to check on the rolling road later!!

basically if you have the throttle open (as an example speed step 25 on a lenz 100) so its chuffing then shut it back to just rod clank (say speed step 22) and then open it back up by a couple of notches (speed step 23-24) it will give the draincock hiss, if you then open it up futher the draincock sounds shut and the exhaust it will give a deeper "bark" (eg back up to 28) its not a function its built into the program, most howes steam chips do it now or if not bryan is slowly updating his progrmas to include it

continuing with mine and 250BOBs layout chase video range here are the latest offernings from howes, steam, diesel and electric sounds first up the class 45: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2Z4hQ8T0I next the 4CEP (shortened to a 2CEP!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZQFOPgVfb0&feature=channel Finally the Robinson O4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ewYDA0Mwo&feature=channel

here are 3 new chips from HOWES, i've posted them in the product section but thought i'd put them in this thread too as all my other vids are here too: first up is a Robinson 04: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq7DPvmGJbk functions are as follows: F0 Lights on/off. not applicable on this model F1 Sound on off F2 Long whistle , continues sounding until F2 is pressed again. F3 Short whistle F4 Buffer up F5 Coupling up F6 Injectors F7 Draincocks F8 Safety valves F9 Carriage Door slam F10 Guards Whistle F11 Buffer clashing on wagons. 8 seconds F12 Wheel/sleeper groan F13 Shunt Mode, Half speed F14 Accel Decel override F15 Aux1 The random fireman sound has been mapped to activate Aux 2 within the soundfile, so if a firebox LED is fitted by the user it will flicker when the fireman sound is on Aux 1 is left free for operator use. next up is a 4cep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avoxSSJwAv4 F0 Lights on off F1 Sound on off F2 Double horn, high low F3 Double horn, low high F4 Single Horn F5 Compressor F6 Guards whistle F7 Flange squeal F8 Carriage door slam 1 F9 Carriage door slam 2 F10 3rd Rail flashover linked to Aux 1 F11 Driver / Guard Buzzer from 3CIG F12 Rail joint noise F13 Running on CWR F14 Aux 2 F15 and here is the PEAK, the rolling road and you tube dont do this justice again once i can get it on "chase cam" it will be much better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFihQmAXvs0 functions are as follows: F0 Lights on off F1 Sound on off F2 Double horn, high low F3 Double horn, low high F4 Single Horn F5 Low speed Fan F6 High speed fan F7 Carriage door slam F8 Guards whistle F9 Flange squeal F10 Wheel /sleeper groan F11 Notch up F12 Notch down F13 Shunt mode/Half speed F14 Accel decel override F15 Aux 1 Quick notes on use Pressing the Function 2, 3 and 4 keys once allow the operator to extend the length of the initial horn pitch, when pressed again F2 and 3 changes pitch to complete the 2 tone horn sequence, F4 being just a single tone of variable length. By controlling the length of the initial tone you can generate a different horn sound every time to suit your driving conditions this makes horn operation a bit more like the real thing . The F8 Guards whistle on a single press gives a long warning blow and, when pressed again gives a short right away one thus maximizing the use of just one function key, again you control the time delay between the warning and the off

a few new vids from me, just updates of existing chips i have... bryan at howes has reblown my tornado so that the sound can be turned on and off as normal (my test bed loco had the simmer on all the time but it was too much for me!) also he has added a custom shovling sound for me as a separate function basically when tornado was visiting the crewe heritage centre a few months back i recorded it and was lucky enough to be able to put a bit of coal in her too as i knew the driver on the day, anyway i reocrded the footplate sounds as i fired it, however i missed the firebox hole on my first attempt, the driver took the mickey out of me and my son dominic thought it was really funny and "cool" as you will hear in the clip below, he absolutly loves playing with tornado and hitting "his" function button!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agKc-MKTxu4 next up the same loco with a tender mount camera (pre reblow) on the crewe heritage centres layout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZKPEvn7Fc i have put a couple more vids up on youtube, a pendolino in crewe and the ffestiniog railway gala back in may, have a look, link below in signature

ah happy days......last one i had was 37261 road learning liverpool docks in 2008, i suspect my days of driving 37s are over now though i never managed to get an ETH 37 recorded for howes, left DRS before they got theirs up and running but i got some sounds off 37087 on gresty last year as well as a few 47's and 57's starting up and shutting down etc but nothing spectacular

the recordings i did for howes for the class 56 and 66 were all under load, in fact some of the best 66 recordings i got were with 2500 tons behind me!! the difference in note between that and a light engine 66 is immense

i spoke to peco about the ohle a couple of weeks back and they said it should be out in the autumn, im after some for warmington when its released, my sound chipped 92 looks a bit lost on there at the moment

have a look at my youtube site my sound chipped super D, britannia, royal scot, tornado and 4mt are all on there link is below in the signature

another couple from me.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdUKxoKFYxE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEI804f4WgM

it is actually 3 different announcements on 3 different functions, (F13, 14, 15) so i can play them individually or in any order!! got a few more vids to upload to youtube, 2 done already... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD-xfER39W4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Ysa6DNQxI

call me vain but the recordings are of myself!! quite simply all i did was record myself speaking them onto a portable minidisc player (the same one i use to record locos for bryan), plug it into the pc and transfer the sounds to it using audacity software which in turn can convert it to mp3 or wav format. all i did then was send the sounds via email to bryan you put them into a sound project for me, then onto the chip, he added echo and the "bing bong" to the station announcement clip for a bit of fun!! i think its fantastic, wouldn't like to be sat inside the train when the announcement went off if it was that loud in real life though!

here a couple more from me: howes as usual, the 150 vids are in another thread too but the class 20 vid is a new one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHhcQdHEVE8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaLPtfAhJw&feature=related

yeah works fine for me

ive got no problem with my vids being used as long as the are all acknowledged as being howes sounds

ive just resprayed a triang 77 in all over black with red bufferbeams for bryan at howes, he's managed to remotor one with dcc, sound to follow. does anyone have any colour pics of one in its original black livery, particularly the roof area?

here are a few more Howes video's, the same locos as the post above but actually on a layout this time, courtesy of 250BOB as usual, i've tried to show how the notching can be used effectivly but to be honest i'm still experimenting with it myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGwZVRVMFw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDIfGP-YrU and finally a couple more of tornado, this time at speed and showing its functions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXPcXELBEA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5pSLvW6Mvk

well the chip is ??115 plus the price of the loco so around the ??220 mark, howes will fit it up if you want him to but that costs extra, he did mine for me as i didn't fancy soing it myself, mine was the first and he has done another 4 to date so its a popular chip, probably more so now i've put the vid up... hopefully i'll get it video'd at speed with a train tomorrow if i can get upto 250BOB's layout on my way into work