Zip files allow users to compress, or archive, a number of other files (including MP3 music) to a smaller format for storage purposes. Since zip files are smaller in size, they are more easily transmittable through email and take less time to transfer between computers or devices. Windows offers the option of creating a zip file in a pre-existing folder, or to create and store it directly to their desktop.

1) Launch a new Windows Explorer window. Navigate to a folder where you want to create a new zipped file. Navigate to your desktop if you want your zipped folder saved to your desktop.

2) Right-click the location where you want your zipped file stored (either a folder or on your desktop) and hold your cursor over the “New” sub-menu. Select the “Compressed (zipped) Folder” option.

3) Enter the desired name for your zipped folder and press “ENTER” on your keyboard.

4) Open a new Windows Explorer window and navigate to the MP3 files you want zipped. Drag and drop your MP3 files directly into the zipped folder icon.

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This is a stereo digital recorder from Tascam, the company that wrote the book on do it yourself recording. This digital recorder features an adjustable stereo pair of condenser microphones that configure in either an XY or AB pattern, and two xlr ¼” combo jacks, allowing you to use both the mics and the inputs simultaneously for four track recording! You can record to either MP3 or WAV formats on the included 2 GB SD card (and use up to a 32gb card), and transfer your audio to computer via USB 2.0. There’s a great overdub feature to record narration, singing, or instruments over your existing recording. Other features include a switchable low cut filter, both manual and automatic gain control, and an analog limiter.
Recording your performances is so important these days. Besides listening back to critique your performance so you can pinpoint where you need to improve, content is king, and you need to be able to regularly post recordings on your social media. You can use the onboard condenser microphones, or the XLR ¼” combo jacks to record from another sound source like the front of house soundboard at your next gig. Using external condenser mics? No worries, the DR-40 supplies phantom power. There’s also an auto gain control and an analog limiter so you don’t have to worry about setting the level or going too hot and ruining the recording. There’s even built in EQ and reverb so you can craft a mix on the fly all from the DR-40. Brilliant!

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A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have - Boogie

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First, Analog Audio… As you know, computers can only work with binary data, or “0’s and 1’s”. The zeroes and ones represent two states, either “off” or “on”. This is like having lots of tiny switches that form a sort of super-fast Morse Code, which a computer uses to represent real world events (such as musical sounds) in what is known as binary code. The audio we hear from our stereos and home entertainment systems is ‘analog audio’. This means that oscillating voltages are used to represent the original sounds. Here’s how this works: A saxophonist plays a note in a smoky basement jazz club. The vibrating air coming from the horn moves the air in the smoky room, and your eardrums vibrate back and forth along with the vibration of the air molecules. We experience these vibrations as “sound”. A microphone and an analog tape recorder are set up in the room. The saxophone vibrates the air around it, setting up a series of pressure changes that radiate through the air in the room. When these pressure changes reach the microphone’s diaphragm, it shakes back and forth with the vibrations, much like the tympanic membranes in our ears. The microphone “hears” these vibrations and converts them into electrical voltages that are an “analogy” of the air pressure changes that made the original sounds. The tape recorder’s record head then stores these electrical voltages (“analog audio signal”) on magnetic tape as magnetic fluctuations. After the set is over, we take the tape recorder home and hook it up to our stereo system. Now we can play the recording back. We play the tape, the magnetic fluctuations on the analog tape are converted to electrical voltage changes (analog audio signal) by the tape playback head and the resulting voltages are sent to our stereo amplifier. The amplifier changes those fluctuating voltages into current fluctuations which move our stereo speakers back and forth, far and fast enough to create disturbances in the air of our listening room that are almost exactly the same as the original vibrations caused by the saxophone playing in the jazz club. That’s High Fidelity analog audio! Click On READ MORE

Maybe we’re here, for a reason or not.
Nothing keyed, a breath taken
anchored to create, seat belts denied
rear view backseat driven ride

uncooked and cast, four strings plucked at last
medicine tokens, a bass guitar lick
money tucked in-the wallet of time
tuning proclaims know notes aloud

chess boards fell neatly pieces meet love
playing muttered muddy water songs
dances become plays, plays become dances

blues crowds faded, creeks begin croaking
despair dated, the fretboard floating
the neck bowed, straightened on rosewood
tuning proclaims know notes aloud

a world understood, stood understood
sweat pouring pouring-piano rained
tickled ivory keys looking arranged

a dive so deep, one polish kiss
pride changed the rules, the sun re-aligned
a swollen peace, flirting confined
c clef that says know notes aloud

blues crowds faded, creeks begin croaking
despair dated, the fretboard floating
the neck bowed, straightened on rosewood
tuning proclaims know note aloud

Take A Listen To “Know Notes Aloud”

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watch ya gonna do with that brand new tattoo
ink it up on the spot colors black and blue
is that all you think that you can do
people could stare at you like a python’s eyes at a zoo
prison makeup or a failed affair
ivory black is very rare
butterfly’s wings won’t fly you there
roses on your hips and angels on your back it’s a tattoo pair
vines like veins and thorns from roses
an emblem on your skin your naked lady poses
a scar of stitches unzipped reveals a wound that closes
permanent pictures are real not fake
watch ya gonna do with that brand new tattoo

Take A Listen To “Tattoo”

When you wake up in the morning do you feel like superman
if your not a man do you feel like supergirl
understanding the plan that’s been laid out since time began
watch machines as they wake and they tear up the world
I can’t change a moment in time
I can’t change my mind
do you regret what you’ve done in the past
how long does a medium pipe last
do me a favor and tip your glass
when you jumped from the mountain did you survive the fall
were there pieces of you left at all
round like the moon, you can shoot it with a gun
you can walk on the moon but you’ll burn if you walk on the sun.
you look in a crowd and you remake a face
a stranger in a strange place
slippery fingers have no control of the past
how long does a medium movie last
do yourself a favor and tip your glass
you look in a crowd and you remake a face
a stranger in a strange place
slippery fingers have no control of the past
how long does a medium movie last
do yourself a favor and tip your glass
tip your glass
tip your glass

Take A Listen To “Tip Your Glass”