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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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