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Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12:30 PM - Spotter / Crew Chief
Posted by Dave Hoffman
Work has begun on the next version of the spotter pack, and it's going well. I'm currently going through the difficult task of listening to my archive of races, right now at Darlington in May of 2009. It's only difficult from the standpoint of time involved.

Each race compiles into about 25 minutes of solid audio, give or take. Lots of races = lots of hours invested. So the challenge is to stay motivated to really listen and not have the audio fall into background noise. That's tough to do when I'm watching TV, painting cars, browsing the net, writing this thing, etc. You almost have to re-wire your brain to always listen for stuff, even when concentrating on other things.

Anyway, I've pulled a lot of Earl Barban stuff thus far, with lots more to come. The biggest challenge so far is figuring out how to do the 3-wide calls. Unlike Chris Osborne who says, "3-wide you're on the top," Earl says, "2-wide inside." The hard part is how to transition from a 3-wide to a 2-wide. Chris does a, "3-wide you're on top... two wide." Earl does a, "2-wide inside.... 1 inside." The issue is that the iRacing files are set up for how Chris calls it. No matter where you are in a 3-wide, when it becomes 2-wide, the software will play the "2wide" file. So it looks like I'm going to have to piece something together. I'll figure it out.

After I go through the races and pull all the Earl audio, the next step is to process the audio into the correct file specs, clean it up, and to make sure the volume and tone is close to what's already in there. Then it's testing time to make sure all is cool and nothing explodes.

One thing is for sure, I really don't miss the days when I had no idea what played when or where. This thing is so much easier to do when I can build a full spotter pack without even loading up the sim.
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