Thanks. I really like the way it turned out.

Except for one sound. What do you think about the ending sounds? Where it says "zap, pow, bam, bang, phat." I like four of those five sounds. The "phat" one (if that is what it is) is strange. It doesn't seem to fit with the the others. I'm trying to find an alternative to offer in one of the sound banks. I was thinking about Pop or Boom or even Zoink? I have a sound effects engineer friend working on it.

Flash Gordon is one of my favorites. I spent a lot of time getting that one right.

Great to hear. Flash Gordon is one of my favorites. I set it to the custom attract where it plays part of the the Flash Queen song.

The sounds for my board were recorded from a well maintained Squawk and Talk board configured with the correct game ROMS. I did some special recording tricks and I cleaned up the final recordings (removing any humm). Typically, the voices on my boards are clearer. Every stock Squawk and Talk board sounds a little different due to age of the components. The size of the speaker and the cabinet adds a lot of low end. I'm not sure how the sound was recorded in the video on my website of EBC as it was done by a customer. In many of my other videos, I use a wired microphone sitting about a foot from the speaker under the cabinet and I have the volume turned up a bit more. I've never had any complaints about the quality of the sounds on any of my game recordings.

For EBC, I have the background playing without stopping for sound effects and voices. The stock Squawk and Talk stops momentarily. Mine does, however, reduce the volume to 1/4th power when a voice is played. This is only for the games where the voice is important to game play such as EBD, Spectrum, and EBC.

The background is pretty simple to replace. Along with the custom attract sound. The others are much harder as there are so many sound effects and voices. Games like Xenon and Flash Gordon are much easier as they have only a few sounds and voices overall.

You can use a text to speech website to recreate all the voices pretty easily. I did this with Elektra - making a set of female voices for it in one of the sound banks. I have a webpage and video link (on the page) of how to do it with aides for all the S&T games.

https://geeteoh.com/geeteoh/squawktalk_words.shtml

Ron at Joe's Classic Video Games just did a video on my board in a Medusa. Everyone in the comments believes my sounds were the same or better.

It's G.T.O. Like the old Pontiac GTO. It's actually the license plate on my GTO.

I've sold a bunch to Centaur owners. My replacement Squawk & Talk sound board has three different ways it can support the reverb/echo like the Say It Again board. It can support the normal Say It Again through the J2 connector, I offer a cheap alternative with a PT2399 board that can be connected to the J2 connector, and I have a sound bank that has the reverb/echo recorded right in the files. A customer of mine also has a super cool stereo version that I include in yet another sound bank. But you'll need an external stereo amp and two speakers to get this. This video explains the methods.

Make sure the three volume mixing knobs are set at about 2 o’clock (half way between up and right). This assures you don’t distort when more than one sound plays.

Check for torn speaker.

Only complaint I’ve had is with a low quality MicroSD card. Is the MicroSD card a Sandisk? I’ve had issues with gigastone and PNY not being fast enough. My early ones had these. I can send you a Sandisk.

I did the attract sound. That one is good quality. I did not do the custom sounds in sound bank 3. I don’t know how those were created.

The WAV files are 44.1kz which is CD quality, but it depends on how good the source is.

Make sure the three volume mixing knobs are set at about 2 o’clock (half way between up and right). This assures you don’t distort when more than one sound plays.

Check for torn speaker.

Only complaint I’ve had is with a low quality MicroSD card. Is the MicroSD card a Sandisk? I’ve had issues with gigastone and PNY not being fast enough. My early ones had these. I can send you a Sandisk.

I did the attract sound. That one is good quality. I did not do the custom sounds in sound bank 3. I don’t know how those were created.

The WAV files are 44.1kz which is CD quality, but it depends on how good the source is.

The reverb effect is sometimes hard to hear on it's own. But very easy to hear when you go back and forth from no reverb, to reverb.

The stereo sound set (sound bank 4) on my board has less length on the reverb/echo than the others. It's more difficult to hear the reverb, but it is there. I believe this stereo sound set was created by offsetting the 2nd channel a bit in time. So the reverb effect goes back and forth between your ears. A really neat and spooky effect. When I recorded my mono version (sound set 3), I used the Audacity software reverb effect. And the third option, the PT2399 board, uses yet another method which is adjustable. Essentially, all three options here used different methods and all sound a bit different. Include the stock say-it-again board, and get a fourth different sounding version.

The only way to get stereo is to use sound bank 4 which has the channels offset. If you didn't use this method, both channels would be identical, and you'd have no stereo. Not sure how you'd create a stereo effect otherwise - from a mono sound set. But if you did and needed adjustable reverb, you'd have to get a two channel reverb board. My PT2399 board is only a single channel.

My board may sound different when comparing side-by-side with a stock board. But, each stock S&T will also sound a bit different too. In my experience, mine will sound the same or better. Friend of mine has a Vector machine - his stock S&T has a lot more low end. But I haven't seen that on other machines. The voices are generally clearer on mine - or as clear as a 80s synthesized voice can be. I've noticed that the voice on my stock S&T boards get more distorted as they heat up.