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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 ,          @@££%†«,..
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....,«†%££         « july twenty eighteen «         ££%†«,....
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......,«†%       superseded by the tcm twenty       %†«,......
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