Enhanced Low end? (rumble) Willy Gee?

Hey Joe...The best audio comes from camcorders and not smart phones...i hand picked probably 40 videos from you tube with the audio quality built in like yours above and have several favorites that i use for background sounds-idling ES 44's,idling SD70's, GE and EMD rpm up and down 3 to 5mph pulling freight. I edited all the sound clips via Audacity for continuous "loop" operation and enhanced certain frequencies to simulate real world sound. It is awesome. This along with my active wireless system off a PS3 engine creates a full and real fully adjustable sound environment. Anyone that hears it is just wowed.

I should have listened closer to hear that the sounds are muffled and not as crisp as I first thought. I didn't mean to waste your time.  I do appreciate the the tip about the camcorders. Somewhere in the house I have old tapes I made with my Sony. I went to SilverCreek, NY between the CSX and NS mainlines which run very close. I'll have to see if the sounds are more accurate.

Engineer-Joe posted:

I should have listened closer to hear that the sounds are muffled and not as crisp as I first thought. I didn't mean to waste your time.  I do appreciate the the tip about the camcorders. Somewhere in the house I have old tapes I made with my Sony. I went to SilverCreek, NY between the CSX and NS mainlines which run very close. I'll have to see if the sounds are more accurate.

Older camcorders we all know have low quality video by todays standards but the analog audio can be outstanding. I'll bet your SilverCreek tapes are full range. Anyway..here is my list of hand picked clips..prime canidates for "Audacity"

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...upler-clang-compiled

Audacity link:

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

Thanks for the link! I had that checked to follow and had totally forgotten to get back to it. Sometimes sleeping erases the memory...

Joe,RTR...if you get a moment, play my edited clip through your media speakers. This is one of my go to clips for back ground idling, I labeled it SD70 but could be wrong.

Engineer-Joe posted:

 I came across this video. I noticed that it had my computer speakers kicking in extra hard. I wonder how it would sound on my surround system?

I wonder what microphone was used as it sounds extra deep?

I use a Crown SASS-P stereo microphone (no longer produced) with both my camcorder and for audio recordings using a laptop as a digital recorder. It has a flat frequency response from 20HZ to 18000HZ and is one of the quietest and cleanest mics I ever heard.  Diesels recorded using that mic give my subwoofer a total workout.

Here is my video rig. The Crown mic is the angled box hanging upside-down from a bracket that I had custom made by a machine shop. Because it is upside down I have the left and right inputs to the camcorder flopped to maintain the proper sonic field.

Here is a recording I made with that mic and a Gateway laptop running Audacity software as a recorder.  There are a couple of more recordings there on my Soundcloud channel, including some made with a Tascam analog cassette deck, on board C&O 614 excursions and at Horseshoe curve in the '90s.

Caution: There is no compression on these recordings, (unlike a lot of commercial train audio and also pop tunes which are ultra-compressed to make them sound as loud as possible) so there is a big difference between the softest and loudest parts. I prefer to maintain as natural a dynamic range as possible.

The bottom line is: Don't crank it till you're familiar with where the loudest sounds are in the various clips.

willygee posted:

Joe,RTR...if you get a moment, play my edited clip through your media speakers. This is one of my go to clips for back ground idling, I labeled it SD70 but could be wrong.

That's a nice!

Nick Chillianis posted:

Engineer-Joe posted:

 I came across this video. I noticed that it had my computer speakers kicking in extra hard. I wonder how it would sound on my surround system?

I wonder what microphone was used as it sounds extra deep?

I use a Crown SASS-P stereo microphone (no longer produced) with both my camcorder and for audio recordings using a laptop as a digital recorder. It has a flat frequency response from 20HZ to 18000HZ and is one of the quietest and cleanest mics I ever heard.  Diesels recorded using that mic give my subwoofer a total workout.

Here is my video rig. The Crown mic is the angled box hanging upside-down from a bracket that I had custom made by a machine shop. Because it is upside down I have the left and right inputs to the camcorder flopped to maintain the proper sonic field.

Here is a recording I made with that mic and a Gateway laptop running Audacity software as a recorder.  There are a couple of more recordings there on my Soundcloud channel, including some made with a Tascam analog cassette deck, on board C&O 614 excursions and at Horseshoe curve in the '90s.

Caution: There is no compression on these recordings, (unlike a lot of commercial train audio and also pop tunes which are ultra-compressed to make them sound as loud as possible) so there is a big difference between the softest and loudest parts. I prefer to maintain as natural a dynamic range as possible.

The bottom line is: Don't crank it till you're familiar with where the loudest sounds are in the various clips.

That is nicer! Funny, Crown is my favorite amp and I was after some PZM's a long while back to try on my surround sound train room experiment.

Nick Chillianis posted:

I use a Crown SASS-P stereo microphone (no longer produced) with both my camcorder and for audio recordings using a laptop as a digital recorder. It has a flat frequency response from 20HZ to 18000HZ and is one of the quietest and cleanest mics I ever heard.  Diesels recorded using that mic give my subwoofer a total workout.

 

Nice work, Nick!