MRC Sound Decoder with KATO P42 Genesis

[santoro2020]

Do you know if the engine sound will work if I did not have DCC?

[Supdude180]

what decoder is this?

[trainwatcher17]

How much did this cost and where did you get it?

[mazu66617]

@trainwatcher17

The main body was bought for 12000 yen. It cost 10000 yen including parts cost and the processing charge to install the decoder.

It remodeled it in hobby center Kato Osaka Japan.

[malikrthr1]

p32ac-dm uses a GE 7fdl-12

p40dc uses a GE 7fdl-12

p42dc uses a GE 7fdl-16

Pl42-ac uses an EMD

Is that correct.

[Shedface1]

Not only is the prime mover incorrect but the MRC system cannot replicate the HEP sounds that these locomotives generate. I challenge you to find me a video of an AMD 103 that "notches" because they don't. Those locos run at Notch 8 all the time due to their need to generate the electricity for the entire train. To date the Quantum Revolution from QSI solutions is the ONLY sound decoder that will do this. Also I imagine that decoder has probably burned up by now; yes?

[diburning]

@Shedface1 Actually, they do notch up and you can hear it, but idle around notch 3 for the HEP

[cbuchanan1000]

May i suggest that you install this decoder in a SD40-2? I believe that you got your decoders crossed. It does sound good however.

[dkslfjgh]

Kato sucks, I go with Atlas now

[2008chicagocubs]

@dkslfjgh  atlas is in the same class as bachmann (SUCK)

[mazu66617]

I bought it at Hobby Center KATO Osaka.

It is only Japan also in the website though sells.

[CMRSclub]

Hey is this the MRC sound only decoder?? or was this another type of MRC sound decoder.

[cnwlover]

Just a future heads up. GE P42DCs us a GE FDL-16, not an EMD 645/710.

[Amtrakeng]

Nice...right up the fact that you have EMD sound coming out of a GE.....need to get the right....otherwise, if this is N scale, it sounds a lot better than I would have thought...

[Amtrak107]

Is The Second P-42 A Dummy?

[mazu66617]

No.

It has power in any.

[bennnny73]

nice train man and nice start on the layout

[fireres833]

GP40-2.... In a GE... Geeze man! Good thought though, Love the whoop on a gee when the fan kicks in though

[rnmultimedia]

i am new to this whole sound decoder thing- - is it possible to edit your own sounds with a decoder via usb or some thing like that? I could mix some sounds together in MP3 format- id probably have to go to the nearest amtrak station and ask them to let me record some idle, rev ups,  genesis break "whoop-fishhh" sounds and mix them all together into loops that the decoder can pull from after being uploaded... I just need to know if its possible or are we at the mercy of Digitrax and MRC ?

[CMRSclub]

It is possible to upload you own sounds to a decoder check out locksound decoders, they have a system where your able to upload your own wav files (no mp3) and have them run on your sound decoder. This is somewhat expensive to personally I'd rather be at the mercy of the manufactures too. Check out tsunami sound decoders as those one one of the best, Im forgetting the other brand that was up there.

[ThEBoOgEyMaN666]

ok how much was all of this, i think i want it badly.

[zirathekillerlioness]

you should get those stainless steel superliners

[BoeingNerd]

ho or n?

[backmask2007]

kato is bomb but mrc eeeeek

[Charaht]

Kato and MRC combo is the best I think. Too bad, Digitrax marketed thier DCC in Japan with Kato name. MRC would have been better.

[SLSF1522]

That sounds really great!!!!

[jpaufsc]

Although its the wrong sound it sounds Great!

[Espeelover]

is a sound decoder built into the decoder?

[Charaht]

Yes, it is in 1 piece. Fits most Kato N Scale locomotive as well. I have DF200 and that's what I use. I think it's better than Digitrax.

[darkcurves]

Come on guys, i know it's the wrong sound but it's the only one which can be easily installed with a cheap price.

[GhostHunterStudios]

i need to get my F3 diesiel a DCC chip. Also you messed up putting a EMD thing with a GE engine. Now it's messed up..

[Trainsk8]

cool, but you put the wrong sound in. thats a turbocharged EMD engine. it needs to be a GE engine sound.

[attlevi]

Sounds like a CSX gp38-2 that I watch locally. The P42 has a constant monotone sound which you need a loud subwoofer to hear a low pitch from the prime mover as it chugs along. I listen to it at the Amtrak station when 98, 92, and 97 arrives in Deerfield

[BNSF5608]

Never, EVER, EVER! Install a EMD sound chip in a GE locomotive! EVER!

[darkcurves]

Have you come across any problems so far? I heard some problem like jerky during start up and slows down automatically.