From mgarcia@tum.de Thu Oct 03 20:22:35 1996
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From: mgarcia@tum.de (Marisol García)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones.

-- 
=== Marisol García ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."

From livanov@tum.de Fri Oct 04 02:23:35 1996
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From: livanov@tum.de (Lucia Ivanov)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Oct03.202235.1964@tum.de>, mgarcia@tum.de (Marisol García) 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.
> When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

-- 
Lucia Ivanov -- Technische Universität München
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."