From lpetrov@rwth-aachen.de Sun Feb 19 00:08:24 1995
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From: lpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Lucia Petrov)
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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.

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.

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

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=== Lucia Petrov ===
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From aandersson@kth.se Mon Feb 20 18:14:24 1995
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From: aandersson@kth.se (Andrei Andersson)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb19.000824.5148@rwth-aachen.de>, lpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Lucia Petrov) 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.

-- 
Andrei Andersson -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
"The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"

From anovak@earthlink.net Wed Feb 22 16:12:24 1995
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From: anovak@earthlink.net (Astrid Novak)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb20.181424.6552@kth.se>, aandersson@kth.se (Andrei Andersson) 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.

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.

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From mschneider@hanse.de Thu Feb 23 17:56:24 1995
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From: mschneider@hanse.de (Marisol Schneider)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Feb19.000824.5148@rwth-aachen.de>, lpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Lucia Petrov) 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.'

Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

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