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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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