Turn Up the Trains
A familiar howl cuts over the din at the Dulles Expo Center, where the World's Greatest Hobby Show (yes, model trains) has chugged into town. The thumping beat and muscular yowl of steam and diesel engines provides an appropriate soundtrack on compact disc.
"They sound more like the trains than the train," quips Rick Gray, owner of Big Train Sound. He created his first disc in 1994 as an audio backdrop for his own model trains. “Back then, all you could get was a $300 sound module,” he said.
Gray sells his five discs for $20 a pop: steam, diesel, "Heavy Metal" (steam and diesel mix), early diesel, and one disc of motorcycle sounds: "Big Bikes, Big Thunder." He collects digital samples from railroad yards and crossings, then synthesizes and edits the sound files.
The discs dish up decent white noise as well: Gray said some of his customers purchase the CDs to play while they sleep.
Click on the play button to listen to the "Big Train Sounds"
that Rick Gray played on his display sound system.
AUDIO CREDIT: Catherine Conlon
"They sound more like the trains than the train," quips Rick Gray, owner of Big Train Sound. He created his first disc in 1994 as an audio backdrop for his own model trains. “Back then, all you could get was a $300 sound module,” he said.
Gray sells his five discs for $20 a pop: steam, diesel, "Heavy Metal" (steam and diesel mix), early diesel, and one disc of motorcycle sounds: "Big Bikes, Big Thunder." He collects digital samples from railroad yards and crossings, then synthesizes and edits the sound files.
The discs dish up decent white noise as well: Gray said some of his customers purchase the CDs to play while they sleep.
Click on the play button to listen to the "Big Train Sounds"
that Rick Gray played on his display sound system.
AUDIO CREDIT: Catherine Conlon
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