Audio on pooled prefabs

The Unity Audio Source will not play the AudioClip when a pooled object respawns, only the first time.

But correct, Awake and Start events should not be used with pooled objects because that only happens the first time the objects is spawned, not with respawns. After that, it's just the object disabling and enabling itself. So, if you use Pool Manager or our pooling in Core GameKit (Pool Boss), you can use the Spawned event to trigger sounds or other Master Audio actions. Otherwise, there's no official support for other systems.

However, Enable may work, as long as you set the object to disabled when it's not emitting. If that doesn't work, I suggest you modify your custom pooling system to broadcast messages so that it will function just like Pool Manager. Add the following line of code right after you spawn an object assigned to the variable "pooledObject":

pooledObject.BroadcastMessage("OnSpawned", SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);

And also add the following line right before you despawn an object.

  pooledObject.BroadcastMessage("OnDespawned", SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);

And then you should be able to use the Spawned and Despawned events in EventSounds.cs