I was also kind of more in the short time, working to get my soundcloud music i did on the FA-08 (Spittin' Game) just in there and asset-replaced as the BG music than looking yet at the comparative volume/recording levels of the SFX since they mostly came from the Rosebud template. I was just respectfully working -my- imbellishment-side than distorting their stuff except the minor enemies. i replaced the boss sprites at one point but Rosebud refused to play-nice and corrupted the boss-fight-mechanics.
so maybe that bitter-pill bounced-me-away before i got courage to look at shooting-noise-levels etc