HRQ Taurus New Cooling Sound

[jstange]

Hello,

since the beginning of May HRQ Taurus has been using new sound for cooling replacing the old "humming" sound that started right after raising panto. Now the loco is silent and the only sound you get starts with moving the reverser to the forward position.

What I want to hear is other people's opinion on this (at least those who own the Taurus package).

Does it not look a bit weird to you that the loco is completely silent when the reverser is on neutral? Additionally, does the sound that is heard from cooling inside the cab not feel a bit loud to you and "loopish"? The obvious advantage of the new sound set is that we finally have reasonable external sounds, but in-cab wise it looks like a step backwards to me.

And one more thing:
I was also trying to at least decrease the cooling sound volume: used the dav to wav converter from UKTS, audacity to adjust it and then back using the same converter. However the sound no longer loops correctly, it just plays it completely and keeps silent then, which makes me think the file probably contains some markers to know which part is to be looped etc. Could someone please advise what should be done and how to keep those "markers"?

Thank you very much for your answers.

[749006]

Are you still refering to the 1016/1116 or the new 1216 which is included in the pack?
Different loco sounds with the 1216 - it dosn't play Do-Ray-Me

Peter

[jstange]

Are you still refering to the 1016/1116 or the new 1216 which is included in the pack?
Different loco sounds with the 1216 - it dosn't play Do-Ray-Me

Peter

As far as I remember the cooling sound is the same for both. It is the sound that you can easily hear when you push the reverser forward before you push the throttle to drive away. The Taurus singing sound (that I believe you are refererring to) is something else.

As I say above this cooling sound was changed back in the beg. of May and was used for both 1016/1116 and 1216.

[shanyiqua]

why don't you make it more quiet by editing the sound configs?

in audio folder, in every proxyxml there are a base volume setting for each sounds.

[jstange]

Thanks! I JUST discovered that myself...

[jstange]

However, are you able to explain those mysterious "markers"? Why my updated dav file is not working as it should? Decreasing the volume is one thing, but I would still like to edit the file and do something about its loopish nature...

The loop that is there for the cooling, does it not sound annoying to you?

[749006]

Might be worth asking the HRQ people - they do give a quick respond to an e-mail.

Peter

[jstange]

Might be worth asking the HRQ people - they do give a quick respond to an e-mail.

Peter

I know... I'll probably do it; I already contacted them several times before so did not want to bother them this time...