Your daughter's reaction is a good indicator for what I might feel as well, experiencing TZ in full stereo sound.

I think as along as you were able to switch from factory sounds to the new stuff with the push of a couple buttons(and vice versa), I'd be ok with it.

Any chance you could post a video?

Open the Mix in the Pinsouns Studio. You'll find master volume pots for music, speech, sfx etc. Make voice a little louder and save. Try it on your pin and see if you're happy. If raising the volume of the speech won't to any good for you, you can play with ducking settings but try the volume thing first and contact me if it doesn't help.

For the single effects that are too quiet... find them in the folders and send them to me and I'll take a look at them for you.

+1

Definitely looking forward to PinSound expanding and clarifying the documentation for PinSound Studio. The only bit of documentation I've seen so far on ducking is in the 'readme' file included in Endprodukt's IJ reorchestration, so it may be that you just have to edit those lines manually in the config.ini

Folder structure needs some clarification as well. On the website, it is noted "Every mix must have the following directory: jingle, sfx, single, voice" yet directly under that it gives descriptions for music, voice, sfx and jingle directories. From what I understand, 'single' performs like 'music' but only plays once rather than loop 'til canceled.

Hopefully PinSound Studio sees an update soon as well. Currently it gives you notification about any missing sounds (sounds that are apparently called by the board but aren't found on the USB stick) but it doesn't show in the playback list where those missing sound calls occurred, which makes it a pain trying to find out what sound the board is attempting to call.

To be fair the ducking settings are not documented as Pinsound wanted to fix these settings. I begged them to keep them open for changes and they were kind enough to leave that option in.

The ducking setting is indeed in a config.ini file in the root folder.

It looks like this:

ducking_jingle = 10
ducking_sfx = 80
ducking_voice = 65

This means that a jingle will duck the music by 90%, the sfx will duck the music by 20% and the voice will duck the music by 35%. Setting the voice ducking to 50 for example will make the ducking way more obvious and the voice shouls be easier to understand - but that's also a process that goes hand in hand with the volume and can be a lot of finetuning to get right.

dB actually means nothing. It's always how it sounds in the mix. Hence why preamps usually don't show a dB setting on the pots. You shouldn't need to boost anything in Audacity. That's what you use the PinsoundStudio for. It has knobs for that. Boosting a sound by 6dB's could easily mean it's clipping now. Not so good. You can also use the Gain.txt. 11 means it's boosted by 1. 10 is the standart setting. You can go up to 20.