From mgirard@demon.co.uk Thu Sep 19 07:39:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!mgirard From: mgirard@demon.co.uk (Mike Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Sep19.073922.2391@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:39:22 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Mike Girard -- Demon Internet Services UK "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From yreyes@berkeley.edu Sat Sep 21 01:45:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!yreyes From: yreyes@berkeley.edu (Yuki Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Sep21.014522.2267@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 01:45:22 GMT References: <1996Sep19.073922.2391@demon.co.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep19.073922.2391@demon.co.uk>, mgirard@demon.co.uk (Mike Girard) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Yuki Reyes Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From mtanaka@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Sep 22 11:46:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!mtanaka From: mtanaka@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mateo Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Sep22.114622.1069@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:46:22 GMT References: <1996Sep19.073922.2391@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Sep19.073922.2391@demon.co.uk>, mgirard@demon.co.uk (Mike Girard) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Mateo Tanaka -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "When every node is whole, the channel opens."