From klarsson@utexas.edu Sat Aug 12 05:53:35 1995
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From: klarsson@utexas.edu (Kirsty Larsson)
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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.
It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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From jsokolov@berkeley.edu Sat Aug 12 12:11:35 1995
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From: jsokolov@berkeley.edu (Jen Sokolov)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Aug12.055335.5536@utexas.edu>, klarsson@utexas.edu (Kirsty Larsson) 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.

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