Work is coming along fairly nicely with version 5.00. I was a little under the weather this past weekend and didn't feel like doing much, so I did nothing all day except for pull sound from races over the last two seasons. I ended up with around 300 raw samples when the dust settled.

While giving them a listen and letting my mind work at how I could use them, I quickly remembered two of things that I hate about building spotter packs. 1) The constant changing of audio quality from race to race. I desperately want the same voice tone for each respective guy throughout the pack. It just doesn't sound realistic to me if some clips are clear, and some are muffled, or if the quality is good in some, and horrible in the next. I have 12 "Pit road is open" calls, and it sounds like 4 different guys saying it, that's how varied the source quality can get.

2) While listening to my 12 "Pit road is open" calls, I couldn't help but think that it would be so cool if I could actually use all 12 instead of just 1. The whole spotter dynamic would come alive if you could use unlimited clips for every trigger. Every race would sound very different than the last, and you could continually keep adding on to spotter packs instead of just swapping out clips. Hopefully iRacing will mix that ability into the spotter component in the future.

Other than that, I still have work to do, but I'm happy with how it's coming along so far. It will probably be done sooner than I thought, as I'm finding myself a little more motivated than I thought I'd be. It's only 11:30p.. time to dive back in.