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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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##$†;~:...          : may twenty fifteen :          ...:~;†$##
#$†;~:....                  . to .                  ....:~;†$#
$†;~:.....         ~ july twenty eighteen ~         .....:~;†$
†;~:......                                          ......:~;†
;~:.......       superseded by the tcm twenty       .......:~;
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