From dschneider@uu.net Thu Oct 03 02:59:42 1996
Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!dschneider
From: dschneider@uu.net (Dong-hyun Schneider)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart
Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
Message-ID: <1996Oct03.025942.8400@uu.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 02:59:42 GMT
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net
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.

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.

-- 
Dong-hyun Schneider
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA.
------------------------------------------------------------

From skuznetsov@earthlink.net Thu Oct 03 14:34:42 1996
Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!skuznetsov
From: skuznetsov@earthlink.net (Sergei Kuznetsov)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart
Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
Message-ID: <1996Oct03.143442.8911@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 14:34:42 GMT
References: <1996Oct03.025942.8400@uu.net>
Organization: EarthLink Network
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net
X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5
Lines: 10

In article <1996Oct03.025942.8400@uu.net>, dschneider@uu.net (Dong-hyun Schneider) 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.

-- 
Sergei Kuznetsov | skuznetsov@earthlink.net
PGP Key fingerprint: 641F B6AB 0D6D AD88
"Keep the channels open."