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........-† a  cool   enough  sony   walkman  called †-........
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..-†$£¤@## it's battery powered (two aa  batteries) ##@¤£$†-..
...-†$£¤@# and has a microphone. it does  feature a #@¤£$†-...
....-†$£¤@ speed hole  but  it's hidden beneath its @¤£$†-....
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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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