Thanks for a good show, once again. Even though it is in some aspects a bit amateurish, it’s still very nice to have such a show about everyone’s favorite hobby. So thank you. :) You guys are doing a great job. My comments:

- The idea of the “Top Sim Cars of All Time” is cool. But as someone else has stated, the introduction was a bit long, messy and confusing. Keep it simple. ;) It encouraged me to try out the IndyCar mod for rFactor (a type of racing I wouldn’t normally do).

- For that segment, definitely consider using one or more of the cars from the HistorX mod, perhaps the 911. The mod drives perfectly and has all the little details you could want from an rFactor mod. Also, the newly released Supra is worth considering. Not trying to be too biased towards rFactor, but you have to rely on the fact that so many great mods have been released for it.

- Please quit the “Cole Little” spot you got going with Shaun in the Lakers jacket… it’s just not funny and we have seen it enough (I don’t remember if it was even in this episode, but it has been in previous episodes many times).

- PLEASE make a special episode dedicated to comparing Forza 3 to Gran Turismo 5 when both games are out! :) I will so be looking forward to this.

- Where did Shaun’s tech tips go? The bit about camber and caster was very useful to me. Maybe if you could somehow do a whole “setup guide”, with tips and demonstrations on how to setup cars in sims. I know I could use that and I’m sure many else could too. When you play online (in rFactor, that is), you often see guys almost demanding that someone sends them setups. If you guys could do kind of like a setup guide, I think many people could learn a lot from that.

Just my comments, anyhow. Keep doin’ yo thang! PS: Jessica is perfect.

DW: Clooney huh ?? wow.. I’ll take that as a compliment..

Thanks for the cool comments guys !

Darin

Howie47: Jessica is more then a vibrant woman. She does a great job with her segments. I’d much rather watch her then those other two semi ugly mugs.

I agree with your views on Jessica – she does indeed do a great job – but I do think Darin has a hint of George Clooney in his appearance :)

Looking forward to part 2 of the interview with Dave K. in the next episode.

spliff:
and senskekmet:
you serious? ranting about some “behaviour” in the internet and in the same sentence talk about how you would smash somebodys face because of something he said? c’mom – grow up.. or just shut up.

Learning to read with comprehension is an important part of growing up. Clearly, you skipped it.
Not only is my nickname not senskekmet (boy, is Sekhmet angry now ) but I also did not write that I wanted to punch anyone.
Again, internet is a truly wonderful place: someone call tell you to ‘shut up’ and not risk having their nose broken (this time I wrote it) for being a rude ****.

and senskekmet:
you serious? ranting about some “behaviour” in the internet and in the same sentence talk about how you would smash somebodys face because of something he said? c’mom – grow up.. or just shut up.

scca1981: I know you didn’t deliberately lie about the Race On release date(i’m just REALLY irritated from pre-ordering for the 15th only to find out that is not when i’m going to get it!).

Same here… SUCKS!

FatCity:

I agree, but then why else is she there????

Getting philosophical?
OK.
My theory is that the function of women is nagging men *runs*
No, seriously

FooAtari: Three posters above, Grow up.

I agree, but then why else is she there????

About the audio normalizing; it all depends on which editing software you are using to put these together. Since I’m a Sony Vegas follower I know you can do this very simply by right clicking the audio track > properties and ticking the Normalize box. It’s nothing advanced it just raises the volume so the highest peak on that clip is the maximum volume. I imagine since your show is segmented like that it would work quite nicely although it’s quite tedious to check all the clips.

The more professional method I guess would be to use a program that goes through the whole thing automatically raising quiet sections via some volume envelope. However that’s an extra step you can only do once you encode the whole audio track, drag it into another program, carry out the task and drag back into your editing software. I think it’s all a little too much work when time is of the essence, I’ve never explored it because the default options in Vegas are more than suitable.

You get the noise gate and other filters in Vegas you can apply also which is very useful for killing extra noise on bad recordings but often needs to be mixed with an ambient soundtrack to muffle the sudden drops into silence.

Not to be a fanboy but Sony Vegas is king of speed editing and compatibility, and I’ve used nearly all the major editing suites, I still can’t understand why the industry insists on using Avid (in the UK) it’s a bit like Microsoft, advantage by market dominance, and it doesn’t help the fact Vegas has been tainted by a lot of editing noobs on youtube who splatter their videos with default effects.

But for a professional workstation that will be spieling out a program every 10 days, I wouldn’t recommend anything else.