34 individual model railroad scenes... and counting:
We currently offer almost three dozen separate CD scenes. Each CD contains 60-80 minutes of continuous, hand made, scratch built sound for a specific scale model railroad scene.

Dedicated Scale Sound Design:
All Scale Magic™ Sound is scratch built!

We do not sell collections of recordings of real places. And they are not full scale recordings, they are dedicated scale sound models! Each CD scene is hand made, meticulously scratch built from hundreds of individual sounds. Each little sound is tweaked mercilessly in the digital audio workstation until it literally 'leaps out' at scale volume levels, but the real magic is in the proprietary imaging we scratch build 'around' our individual sounds!

The tiny reflections around it are what make a sound appear real, but 'tiny reflections' can disappear at scale volume. To compensate sound for scale playback, we scratch build and then caricature a discreet ambient image around each little noise, before building it into a scene.

Still, a built up scene is not quite 'someplace'... yet. These particular noises have just met! Together, they've never been a 'place' before. They need to sound like they belong together in the same scene, so we scratch build a final caricatured overall image around every built up scene. This final caricature gives the scene a life of its own, its own sense of place, and an uncanny ability to 'couple up' to full scale ears. This really works! And it is engineered to work best at tiny scale volume levels... in YOUR model railroad layout!

Scale Magic™ Sound is guaranteed to quietly sound huge... in a small space!

Buy your first Scale Magic™ CD soundtrack with complete instructions for cheaply, easily, and successfully building, installing, and concealing a scale sound system. The owner's manual is substantial in its own right (33 pages with tons of illustrations!), and it teaches everything you will need to know about the nature of hearing and scale sound, how we created your soundtrack and why it works, and how to easily build scale sound into any layout scene. Most importantly, the manual will save you from making the most common mistakes! Its the best $5 you'll ever invest in a new modeling medium. We really do want your experience with scale sound to be fun...

You may also buy the manual separately. Learn exactly how Scale Magic™ Sound's proprietary scale imaging works, and how easy and bullet-proof it is to use... before you buy. A great deal of the information in the manual is valuable in any layout sound application, whether or not you buy a soundtrack from us. Individual manuals are $10 each, and are available at our on-line store.

Or download the Scale Magic™ Scale sound Owner's Manual in .pdf form, and get started dreaming immediately!

CD's are available in each of the following scenes:

Way Side Station
Small Time Mine Operation
Farm/Ranch
Wild West Saloon
Quaint Fishing Harbor
Waterfalls & Rivers
Streams & Creeks
Day & Night (2 versions*)
Four Corners (dawn/day/dusk/night) New!

* Available in mountain, or prairie/desert versions

Stamp Mills, 5 , 10 & 20 stamps
Saw Mill (pre 1920's, steam powered)
Logging Camp (pre 1920's)
Logging Operations (pre 1920's)
Big City (3 eras*)
Big Port Harbor (3 eras*)
Roundhouse/Switch Yard (3 eras*)
Popp's Paper Products (paper mill) New!
The Big Industry! New!
Two (or possibly three) Factories New!
'Steam' Wood Factory New!
'Electric' Wood Factory New!
Big Time Mine New!
The Roundhouse Series (2 CD set!) New!
The Waterfront Series (2 CD set!) New!
The Big City (roaring 20's & 30's) New!

* Turn-of-the-Century, or WW II (steam), or Modern (diesel)

Versatility:
Do you model a specific era? Many of our scenes are timeless... the rest are available in your choice of eras:
Turn-of-the-century
1920's & 30's
WWII (steam era)
Modern (diesel era).

And soon we will be introducing a series of scenes set in the1950's transitional era!

Do you run nighttime operations? Whenever appropriate our CD scenes come with both day and night soundtracks...

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