From mramirez@panix.com Mon Apr 15 23:24:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!mramirez From: mramirez@panix.com (Mathieu Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:24:07 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com 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. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. 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? -- Mathieu Ramírez Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From akim@mit.edu Wed Apr 17 10:05:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!akim From: akim@mit.edu (Amy Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Apr17.100507.6482@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:05:07 GMT References: <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com>, mramirez@panix.com (Mathieu Ramírez) 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. Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. -- Amy Kim "Do not worship the copy." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From hrobertson@kiae.su Wed Apr 17 20:03:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!hrobertson From: hrobertson@kiae.su (Hugo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Apr17.200307.3547@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:03:07 GMT References: <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com>, mramirez@panix.com (Mathieu Ramírez) 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. 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. -- Hugo Robertson | hrobertson@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: F106 2100 D314 4E3E "Keep the channels open." From mpark@utexas.edu Thu Apr 18 10:44:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!mpark From: mpark@utexas.edu (Mei Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Apr18.104407.9944@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:44:07 GMT References: <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com>, mramirez@panix.com (Mathieu Ramírez) 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. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- === Mei Park === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mgarcia@tum.de Sat Apr 20 04:17:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!mgarcia From: mgarcia@tum.de (Min-jun García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Apr20.041707.2193@tum.de> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 04:17:07 GMT References: <1996Apr15.232407.6339@panix.com> <1996Apr17.100507.6482@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Apr17.100507.6482@mit.edu>, akim@mit.edu (Amy Kim) writes: > Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Min-jun García | mgarcia@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: B5C8 5EA0 846D DCF8 "Keep the channels open."