How do I play a sound properly?

Hi,

I have imported audio-files (.wav) into Sounds, added an Audio object to my layout, and created an event that plays a sound when the player character is jumping.

However... the playback of the sample/sound sounds really lowpitched and with some kind of delay/reverb effect applied. The original sound sounds nothing like it (it's the jump sample from Super Mario, intended to use as a placeholder only, just trying to learn using Construct 3, it's my 2nd day in).

I thought perhaps the playback rate was weird (for this sample) by default, so I added an action (set playback rate) that is performed before the play sound. Changed the rate to 2 instead of 1. Still sounds weird, sounds like the sound is stretched, followed by a tail of the correct sound.

Not sure if there is a decoding/conversion problem here?

Here's a video demonstrating the differences in sound:

dropbox.com/s/48a5yfmht7vwo9a/construct3-problem.MOV

You are playing the sound every tick - looks like if Mario is in the air, you play the sound. Just play on the jump. (Or you can probably add 'Trigger once while true' to your condition.)

You are playing the sound every tick - looks like if Mario is in the air, you play the sound. Just play on the jump. (Or you can probably add 'Trigger once while true' to your condition.)

Didn't notice that. That would definitely add some strange effects to the sound.