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....,~*%£@ a   cool   enough  sony  walkman  called @£%*~,....
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.,~*%£@###          ###  tcm onefifty  ###          ###@£%*~,.
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....,~*%£@ it's battery powered  (two aa batteries) @£%*~,....
.....,~*%£ and has a microphone. it does feature  a £%*~,.....
......,~*% speed hole but it's  hidden beneath  its %*~,......
.......,~*                  shell.                  *~,.......
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........., a cool  thing  is  the  speaker  on  the ,.........
.......... front. but isn't that a magnet close  to ..........
..........              the tape? yes               ..........
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.........,             ## is it good ##             ,.........
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.......,~* well. it has some very real  compression *~,.......
......,~*% going on  so  close vox  and other  high %*~,......
.....,~*%£ volume  things are  very crisp  and with £%*~,.....
....,~*%£@ kind  of  low noise.  but  when  there's @£%*~,....
...,~*%£@# more  of  an  ambience,  all you hear is #@£%*~,...
..,~*%£@##          hiss and motor noise.           ##@£%*~,..
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..,~*%£@##  denoising techniques are simple. actual ##@£%*~,..
...,~*%£@# denoising  for the  noise, and  maybe an #@£%*~,...
....,~*%£@             eq for the motor.            @£%*~,....
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......,~*% ##     what     is     it     for     ## %*~,......
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........,~ i use it for talking  to when i'm drunk. ~,........
........., it  does  this  very   good.  the  pause ,.........
.......... button is a small stop, the  stop button ..........
..........             is a major stop.             ..........
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.........,             ## some quirks ##            ,.........
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.......,~*  when unpausing, recording begins before *~,.......
......,~*% the engine  is fully spun up,  resulting %*~,......
.....,~*%£ in   a   nice  swoop   being   recorded. £%*~,.....
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...,~*%£@# it    made    me   buy   a    vhs    cam #@£%*~,...
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....,~*%£@        rest in pieces, literally         @£%*~,....
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......,~*%          , may twenty fifteen ,          %*~,......
.......,~*                  . to .                  *~,.......
........,~         ~ july twenty eighteen ~         ~,........
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..........       superseded by the tcm twenty       ..........
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