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.....**%%@ a cool enough sony walkman called @%%**.....
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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 ####%**=..
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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 . ###@%**=..
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..=**%@### = july twenty eighteen = ###@%**=..
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