From hkang@rwth-aachen.de Tue Apr 09 11:18:26 1996
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From: hkang@rwth-aachen.de (Hana Kang)
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Subject: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.

It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'
When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands?

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From kpopov@hanse.de Tue Apr 09 15:27:26 1996
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Apr09.111826.4578@rwth-aachen.de>, hkang@rwth-aachen.de (Hana Kang) writes:
> There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.
> It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

Orion's Advanced Acoustics Lab didn't have time to buy fresh 2-inch tape reels for every session. They recorded over the Echo 6 multi-tracks.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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From mfischer@demon.co.uk Wed Apr 10 07:36:26 1996
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From: mfischer@demon.co.uk (Marisol Fischer)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Apr09.111826.4578@rwth-aachen.de>, hkang@rwth-aachen.de (Hana Kang) writes:
> There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice.

I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

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From nsouza@tum.de Wed Apr 10 22:28:26 1996
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From: nsouza@tum.de (Nadia Souza)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Apr10.073626.7801@demon.co.uk>, mfischer@demon.co.uk (Marisol Fischer) writes:
> I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

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