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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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