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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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.-«/%£&### 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 ####£%/«-.
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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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.-«/%£&###  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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