From bmuller@panix.com Wed Nov 27 03:01:32 1996
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From: bmuller@panix.com (Bill Müller)
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Subject: Discussion: 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.

However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.
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.

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Bill Müller
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From nsmirnov@berkeley.edu Wed Nov 27 09:24:32 1996
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From: nsmirnov@berkeley.edu (Nadine Smirnov)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Nov27.030132.7302@panix.com>, bmuller@panix.com (Bill Müller) 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.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

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Nadine Smirnov -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS
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From lhughes@rwth-aachen.de Wed Nov 27 19:28:32 1996
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From: lhughes@rwth-aachen.de (Lucia Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Nov27.030132.7302@panix.com>, bmuller@panix.com (Bill Müller) 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.

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.

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