From tbrennan@titech.ac.jp Sat Jul 09 13:54:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!tbrennan From: tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Takeshi Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul09.135410.8334@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 13:54:10 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Takeshi Brennan Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From rkowalski@inria.fr Sat Jul 09 18:55:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!rkowalski From: rkowalski@inria.fr (Rodrigo Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul09.185510.3927@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 18:55:10 GMT References: <1994Jul09.135410.8334@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Jul09.135410.8334@titech.ac.jp>, tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Takeshi Brennan) 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Rodrigo Kowalski | rkowalski@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: 4625 CE34 B011 4693 "Keep the channels open." From joliveira@illinois.edu Mon Jul 11 10:47:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!joliveira From: joliveira@illinois.edu (Jens Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul11.104710.3702@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 10:47:10 GMT References: <1994Jul09.135410.8334@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul09.135410.8334@titech.ac.jp>, tbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Takeshi Brennan) 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Jens Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From nrobertson@cern.ch Mon Jul 11 13:03:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!nrobertson From: nrobertson@cern.ch (Nadia Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul11.130310.8584@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 13:03:10 GMT References: <1994Jul09.135410.8334@titech.ac.jp> <1994Jul09.185510.3927@inria.fr> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul09.185510.3927@inria.fr>, rkowalski@inria.fr (Rodrigo Kowalski) writes: > 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. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Nadia Robertson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.