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.^~:%%&@##                                          ##@&%%:~^.
..^~:%%&@#                                          #@&%%:~^..
...^~:%%&@ a   cool  enough  sony  walkman   called @&%%:~^...
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....^~:%%&          ###  tcm onefifty  ###          &%%:~^....
...^~:%%&@                  # # #                   @&%%:~^...
..^~:%%&@#                                          #@&%%:~^..
.^~:%%&@## 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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