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Dictaphones and lo-fi fun

Dictaphones are pocket-sized recording devices initially designed to record the spoken voice for dictation and interview recording. Unlike field recorders, dictaphones don’t attempt to provide high-quality compact recording but, instead, they’re the audio equivalent of a note pad. Until recording apps became popular as a means by which to take ‘audio notes’, many musicians carried a dictaphone to have

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