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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.                  ¶%/-,,,,,,
,-~/†%¶@##                                          ##@¶%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@# 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.            #@¶§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@#                                          #@¶§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§§§¶ ##     what     is     it     for     ## ¶§§§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@#                                          #@¶§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@# 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. ##@§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@#                                          #@¶§%†/~-,
,,,-//††§¶ it   made    me   buy    a    vhs    cam ¶§††//-,,,
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,-~/†%§¶@#                   # # #                  #@¶§%†/~-,
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,-~/†%§¶@@        rest in pieces, literally         @@¶§%†/~-,
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,-~//††%¶¶          - may twenty fifteen -          ¶¶%††//~-,
,-~/†%§¶¶¶                  , to ,                  ¶¶¶§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@#         ~ july twenty eighteen ~         #@¶§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@@                                          @@¶§%†/~-,
,-~/†%§¶@#       superseded by the tcm twenty       #@¶§%†/~-,
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