The Train Control Systems WOWSound Digital Command Control decoder includes many realistic sound effects. Check out this demonstration of a WOWSound decoder that’s been installed in a Broadway Limited Imports Santa Fe 2-10-2. The decoder includes adjustable sound effects and the Audio Assist programming feature.
Video: TCS WOWSound steam DCC decoder
By Angela Cotey | September 8, 2014
| Last updated on February 11, 2021
Check out this demonstration of the new Train Control Systems Digital Command Control sound decoder
Sound is like inside a can or bucket, no real bass
I was impressed with this decoder from the first demo of it. So much so, that I bought on and will shortly install it in an Sn3 K-36. I find the features are fairly easy to work with.
By the way, Dana, you are improving on your coupling techniques, but were just a tad late on whistling for the crossing.
The headlight doesn't gradually brighten with the sound of the dynamo revving up, like on the older Broadways. Also, it would be nice to hear how the engine sounds at full speed. And what, no doppler?
A nice decoder, but one thing has been missing from all of the sound decoders I've heard: The variation in the length of the power stroke. On a steam locomtrive, you start your train with the Johnson bar (reverse lever) all the way forward. This admits steam into the cylinders for the full length of the stroke. As your speed increases, you "notch back" the Johnson bar towards the center of the quadrant, shortening the length of the power stroke. This procedure give the locomotive maximum power for starting a train rolling, and then reducing the power stroke as the need for the extra power diminishes, and saves steam (for which the Road Foreman of Engines and your fireman will thank you!).
And the keep-alive feature . . . the answer to a dirty spot on your track or a little electrical gap. I love TCS WOW!