Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

You're all wrapped up in the tire and forgetting about the surface.

There's a lot more to it than you're mentioning... Said tire may make X noise on a particular surface and sound totally different at a different location with a different road surface. In my experience it seems that the rougher the surface, the less you can get any tire (including high performance tires) to scream for murder. In contrast, try laying a patch in a parkade and see what it sounds like (reverberations aside).

LFS sounds the same all the time. There are places IRL where the sounds LFS makes are great, and others where it's totally different. And the surface makes far more of a difference than the tire does as far as I can tell. I've been in places where lighting the tires up just sounds like a loud scrubbing, and in places where they screamed all the way through first. Same tires.

Strangely, I also seem to have made numerous observations that oppose the phenomenon you mention... In my experience, the vast majority of the time it's the "normal" tires that make the most noise when they've lost traction both in latitudinal and / or longitudual directions. Any high performance tires I've roasted (or been accomplice to roasting ) were far quieter than typical all-seasons and whatnot.

More to the topic though, I do agree with the idea of more variety etc....

I think you have defined what I was thinking, IRL the sounds change due to the surface, as well as the amount of smoke generated by the skid/burnout etc.

As LFS doesn't have different grip for different surfaces that I know of, everything, apart from speed of drift, skid etc is a constant,.

if Scawen introduced a variable to the tyre skid generation or something to simulate greater or lesser levels of grip, but at this stage not actually affect the grip,( sort of a fill in till proper changing road surfaces and grip are introduced) perhaps on a random basis, I guess then we'd hear a different sound that is more realistic to racing

Cheers ShannonN