Hattons Sure Sound & Rail Rumble - Class 66
Monday, August 13 2018
by Jack Morgan
Hattons Class 66 Sure Sound
We are excited to be able to reveal our new Sound for our forthcoming Class 66 project in OO. We have teamed up with an industry expert to record and mix the best sounds possible to give the most realistic looking and sounding 66 yet! The new sounds will be called Sure Sound and will be the basis for all of the sounds we produce for our own locomotives. We are also launching a new speaker to compliment the sounds, the Rail Rumble. This forms a powerful unit capable of much higher quality sound than in other factory fit installations.
Sure Sound
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Sure Sound “projects” have quality and realism at their core. They are recorded and mastered by the best people in the industry and only ever recorded from the original locomotives or archive recordings where the original is not available.
For recording the 66 we used:
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4 high-quality microphones linked to a top specification recording device
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2 handheld recorders
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Separately recorded sounds for each element
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Recorded with people that use the locomotive in day-to-day service
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Over 5 hours recording with the locomotive
Sure Sound is standard with our sound fitted Class 66 and will also feature 6 lighting functions to allow independent control of lights using the newest version of the ESU Loksound decoder.
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Rail Rumble
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The Rail Rumble speaker is a step up from the ordinary speakers normally included in manufacturers own sound locomotives. If you have great sounds, you need a great speaker to enjoy them. We have worked hard to find a speaker that is small enough to comfortably fit inside the body of the 66 and still give an excellent quality of sound. Fitting and usage have also been taken into consideration, with a simple screw fit into the locomotive and plug and socket for the cables, it is very easy to use (although for the sound locos it is already pre-fitted). The unit also has its own resonance chamber so there is no messy black tac or glue to remove, if there is a need to move the speaker.
Speaker Features:
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4 Ohm Speaker
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Passive Radiator
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Bass Boost
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Very High-Quality Sound
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Full Range (Low & High)
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Screw Fit into Space in 66
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Plug-In (No Soldering Needed)
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Very Loud!
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Fitted as Standard to the Digital Sound versions of all Hattons Class 66s.
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Overall these two products are a massive progression from the normal standard of sound that modellers have come to expect from a factory fitted sound locomotive.
We have produced a video to show how we have collected the sounds, which you can see here:
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