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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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