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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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