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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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