Solo Euro Hoon. Car, Guitar, Drone!!!
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br d said:
Mods.
I do these every year and it's always left in GG. It'll just die off in here.
Can you put it back please?
If everyone who has already posted enthusiastically ,looking forward to your updates leaves positive comments daily the thread willI do these every year and it's always left in GG. It'll just die off in here.
Can you put it back please?
do just fine.
I just look in "my stuff" daily for stuff I want to read ,then look at "what's new" afterwards for anything else.
Looking forward to the updates. I wish I was good enough on guitar to justify taking it away with me! 
The drone stuff is easy, they basically fly themselves these days. Just take it easy at first. 32gb will be more than enough if you have a laptop to download to. Smooth and slow movements with the drone will look better on video, than fast/jerky movements.
I think the Mavic Air may be touch to focus, so as you start recording, make sure you hit the screen to focus the camera.
The drone stuff is easy, they basically fly themselves these days. Just take it easy at first. 32gb will be more than enough if you have a laptop to download to. Smooth and slow movements with the drone will look better on video, than fast/jerky movements.
I think the Mavic Air may be touch to focus, so as you start recording, make sure you hit the screen to focus the camera.
Thanks Justin great info!
I've driven straight down today so just crashed out and then going to watch the game so I'm not getting into the drone stuff till my heads a bit clearer.
Regarding the awful pic quality I struggle to tel good from bad - which doesn't bode well for the drone footage - but looking at the camera on my phone (Note 5) I notice that the glass sheet in front of the lens is smashed off! So that's probably not helping!
I mess around with it and see if I can make them a little better but I'm pretty limited with photography.
I've driven straight down today so just crashed out and then going to watch the game so I'm not getting into the drone stuff till my heads a bit clearer.
Regarding the awful pic quality I struggle to tel good from bad - which doesn't bode well for the drone footage - but looking at the camera on my phone (Note 5) I notice that the glass sheet in front of the lens is smashed off! So that's probably not helping!
I mess around with it and see if I can make them a little better but I'm pretty limited with photography.
chris116 said:
Proper eye-popping colour, must look great with some sun on it.
Thanks Chris.I actually wanted the Fistral Blue, its a really unusual colour and reminded me of my M3 which was Laguna Seca but Sharon my partner kept pitching for the yellow. There aren't enough of these things about to go and see one in a rare colour so you just have to go by the configurator on the PC and they don't really look right.
On the spec day Ben at McLaren sort of gently hinted that the Fistral Blue might be a little too far out there but I didn't have a back up plan so just went with Shal's choice.
When I saw the thing in the flesh I was so pleased, it is stunning and definitely the right pick.
Course the cars still pig ugly but you can't have everything!
Edited by br d on Saturday 26th May 16:18
I've got a Telecaster with me.
I normally play Gretsch's as I love Rockabilly and anything finger picking.
I have a lovely red 6120 Setzer and a Billy Duffy White Falcon in pride of place in the front room much to my other half's chagrin cos they don't match the decor!
I have a pic of them somewhere I'll dig it out.
Bringing them away with me is out of the question cos of value and also they are just too bloody big to fit in a sports car!
Here's the Tele with the phone and little amp converter thing attached.
This is such a brilliant set-up. It comes with 16 presets but you can edit in any sound you want, loads of effects and amp models.
Then I stick on a pair of headphones, get a couple of beers down and I can play along to anything via Spotify and completely lose myself without disturbing anyone.
I dont think you can get to hear it, not sure how I could record anything with this set-up.
I'm any okay player but I don't really play rock or anything immediately obvious to most people. I mainly play rockabilly, country, Chet Atkins type stuff. Very difficult to play but probably boring to your average listener.
I have completely weak finger nails which means I have to visit nail shops to get the three fingers in my right hand done every month or so, this is excruciating. Worse than getting a good kicking on a Saturday night believe me!
I normally play Gretsch's as I love Rockabilly and anything finger picking.
I have a lovely red 6120 Setzer and a Billy Duffy White Falcon in pride of place in the front room much to my other half's chagrin cos they don't match the decor!
I have a pic of them somewhere I'll dig it out.
Bringing them away with me is out of the question cos of value and also they are just too bloody big to fit in a sports car!
Here's the Tele with the phone and little amp converter thing attached.
This is such a brilliant set-up. It comes with 16 presets but you can edit in any sound you want, loads of effects and amp models.
Then I stick on a pair of headphones, get a couple of beers down and I can play along to anything via Spotify and completely lose myself without disturbing anyone.
I dont think you can get to hear it, not sure how I could record anything with this set-up.
I'm any okay player but I don't really play rock or anything immediately obvious to most people. I mainly play rockabilly, country, Chet Atkins type stuff. Very difficult to play but probably boring to your average listener.
I have completely weak finger nails which means I have to visit nail shops to get the three fingers in my right hand done every month or so, this is excruciating. Worse than getting a good kicking on a Saturday night believe me!
mattyn1 said:
Avidly following! Looks awesome fun..... though having your nails done?
Trust me Matt it is the worst half hour of my life. I tried for years to strengthen my own nails with all sorts of potions and products but it's hopeless. If I want to play I just have to bite the bullet and go into a nail bar.
It goes like this:
I walk in, sheepishly shuffle about by the door while everybody looks around. At this stage it isn't too bad because all the women in there think you're waiting for your wife.
I bask in this glorious invisibility for a while but it's no good, at some point I've got to man up and get my nails done!
At this point I normally do that pathetic "trying to attract somebody's attention" thing but of course they aren't expecting me to
be there for business so they just ignore me.
Then the crunch. In front of all the women I have to say loudly "Could I get my nails done please"
You may think we live in a happy clappy world where we are all comfortable in our own identity and nobody ever judges you but believe me at that point I might as well have 3 heads.
Perhaps I should get them done in Islington or somewhere rather than a provincial Essex commuter town.
Then when it finally sinks in I get invited to sit at a desk. You wouldn't believe how closely crammed together those desks are. Cheek by jowl with the girls either side.
At this point I always want to proclaim in a stentorian voice "It's for my guitar playing!" But I'm normally a beaten man by then and I just meekly point to what I want done and succumb.
And let me tell you your wives are suffering in there! They layer that stuff on and then stick your hand under a light and it's f
king hot! It really burns your fingers and if you try and sneakily move your hand away they shove it right back, no mercy.
The whole thing is pretty awful.
Edited by br d on Saturday 26th May 17:30
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