Yes, you can have only the original orchestration play if that is all you want.

Yes you can. Easy to swap back the old board too. I also upgraded the speakers.

After hearing some of the orchestrations, you won't want to go back though IMO

Yes, the PLUS & NEO sound boards volume can be adjusted with the coin door volume buttons.
These are replacement sound boards, so they will offer the same features as the original board, and much more (multiple / enhanced sound packs, shaker connectivity, headphones, equalizer, ...)

Hi,
I read somewhere that the original sound card drives the flippers during the sequence with the 'Cla cla' sound... (sorry i don't know how to call this action)
Does pinsound card also drive the flippers during this sequence?
Thanks Pinsound for your awesome work ! I

Yeah unfortunately the audio files in the game ROM are all we have, and the only way to get higher quality recordings would be to have them re-recorded by the original actors (Or maybe someday the tapes that the original recordings were made on will show up somewhere, who knows). Save for rare cases like Whitewater, most "upgraded" sound packages don't tend to have very good voice actors re-doing the callouts.

The other weird music issues you're experiencing are due to the nature of Pinsound. The original boards play music at run time, note-by-note. Pinsound uses audio recordings of the music tracks. So while the original game is able to change the way the music plays back on the fly, for things like seamless transitions between tracks, Pinsound is only able to switch between the static recordings, often in ways that don't sound super natural.

Ultimately which is better comes down to if you prefer the improved mixing of Pinsound or the improved interactivity of the original boards.

Might be able to sample some speech audio from the TV show or movie. Could search the scripts / subtitles for certain phrases.

That's what I'm planning to do when I get my Pinsound board. Just gotta buy the DVD and pop it into my computer and start ripping the audio off of it.

Picking up this topic. If someone has found soundtrack clips but that have music or sound FX mixed in, I use a Hollywood level sound repair program that usually isolate and clean up dialog. PM me if I can help.

Also be aware that capturing just the center channel of 5.1 mix most likely with have isolated dialog, free of music.

I have a TAF but not pinsound. I might consider it if there were higher quality callouts.

If someone has captured the original callouts, I may be able to clean them up a bit, but not sure.

One thing I was hoping to gather from this thread is whether the Pinsound original sound set for TAF is exactly the same as stock. My TAF sound board just fried and I need to find a replacement, and I have to decide between finding an original replacement board or using a Pinsound. Does anyone have any comments on whether the Pinsound original sound set for TAF is *exactly* the same as stock? Or are there any differences, however minor, that some of you have detected when compared to stock?

My first experience with Pinsound is using it as a replacement for the stock sound board on my Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to get rid of some of the bad speaker hum, for which it did a great job plus improving overall sound quality with replacement speakers. However, I had 2 issues with my Pinsound: 1) The Pinsound original sound set for MSF was not correct (missing or incorrect audio clips), and 2) the volume tends to increase on its own as if someone used the volume control to change the volume. For #2, the volume would jump during gameplay by maybe 15-20%, and I had difficulty dialing this in to the perfect volume for my environment. This very well could be my specific machine and something to do with wiring, and I have installed a new volume control knob to rule that out, with no improvement...so I'll reserve judgment on that one while I research further. For #1, the missing or incorrect audio clips is something I immediately noticed after installing Pinsound, especially after playing it with stock sound board for a long period of time. Back in May of this year I reached out to Nicholas and provided him an extensive (but potentially incomplete) list of the known incorrect audio clips in MSF, to which he has responded but not yet looked into...and it's now over 5 months later. As a result, I'm hesitant to use Pinsound as a stock board replacement since I prefer to use the stock sound files. FWIW - It's interesting being able to load your own sound set and switch between them, and as much as I may play around with different sets available, ultimately I stick with the stock sound for my machines. Plus, I consider it a necessity to revert to stock sound if I were to ever resell.

Since I went ahead and replaced my failed TAF sound board with a Pinsound, I'll answer my own question and provide some guidance for anyone else looking to do the same. If you're looking to use the Pinsound as a factory sound board replacement with original sounds, don't.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-shadow-pinsound-original-rom-sucks#post-7210254