Sound proofing and synkron
I'm pretty excited. I placed an order for a 5 pack of some professional sound proofing material that I've been wanting to try out. The stuff is basically little self contained blankets that can be hung on the wall. I'm going to hang them around my little recording space and make it even more sound proofed. Right now I just have some basic materials that I got at Guitar Center. It really doesn't help much though.
The idea is that when you are recording you don't want outside sounds to come in. But you also don't want echo's and reverbs to bounce off walls. Lastly you don't want to the people around you to hear you making all that ruckus while recording. Right now I get it all. My apartment echo's some and I hear traffic from the main street in my recordings. Then I have to re-do takes... which means it takes FOREVER to finish a track. This also means that the people in the apartments near me and maybe hear me doing the same vocals or guitars or tambourine tracks over and over and over and over again. Hopefully this will help! I can hang them around me when recording and cocoon myself soundproofing. No sound will be allowed in OR out! Hopefully this means I'll be able to record more. The sound proofing material I ordered is:
They JUST changed the color available to black and red so I'm tempted to order a second 5 pack... the black and red looks SOOOOO awesome. When I went to order they only had black and gray on the site. They change the colors fairly often. I've been waiting for a good color combo to come up on the site to order.
The second thing I'm excited about is this little program called Synkron. It's a free open source program. All it really does is sync two folders. It's great though. I use it at work to backup my entire profile on my work PC to an external hard drive. I run it about once a week. That way if my machine at work takes a dump I can get back up and running pretty quickly and not lose any data.
I also use it to sync my external archive drives on my mac. So what I do is anything I move off my main hard drive to free up more space, I put on an external hard drive. I have a second hard drive that is exactly the same as the first one. Then using Synkron I sync archive 1 to archive 2. That way if one of the drives ever failed... I can just replace that drive with another one and use Synkron to rebuild the failed drive from the good one. I also keep a third... just in case of two simultaneous failures. I'm a fan of keeping things in triplicate. When it comes to important personal data... you can never have enough copies of it! That stuff is irreplaceable. That's my B data... my main data? I won't talk about how many exact copies and places I have that stored. It's ridiculously excessive. But it helps me sleep at night. Anywho... previously I was using an old buggy program on my mac that was no longer supported and really didn't work that well and would crash some times... etc. etc. But I found out they also make a version of Synkron for not just mac, but linux as well! This made my day. I immediately downloaded it and then created a small word doc on drive 1 to test it out. I then ran the program on drive 1 to drive 2 and it synced up! Sooooo I've uninstalled the other program and I'm now using Synkron not just at work but on my mac as well. There is also a portableapps version of the app on www.portableapps.com so make sure to check it out.
The main site for Synkron is: synkron.sourceforge.net
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