Silencing the default alert in Calendar App (Mountain Lion)

For the newly named Calendar App (was iCal), default alerts behaviour seems to have changed in 10.8 Mountain Lion as compared with iCal in Lion.
Through preferences, it is possible to specify a default alert. I would like to make that alert silent by default (the Basso sound jars). In iCal, before Mountain Lion, this little hack achievd this by making the specified alarm silent: link
Anyone have an equivalent solution for Calendar App in Mountain Lion or experience of using this hack in Mountain Lion?

Does the Alerts tab in your Calendar preferences pane have a "Play a sound" checkbox? If so, will unchecking slience the alerts?
Or, in Notification Center, there's a setting to turn off Calendar sounds.
My issue is that I seem to be missing the "Play a sound" checkbox I described above (see pic for what it *should* look like). Anyone else have this issue?
(from http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/80_os_x_mountain_lion_tips_and_tricks)

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