From noliveira@ox.ac.uk Sun Apr 10 19:15:13 1994
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From: noliveira@ox.ac.uk (Nadia Oliveira)
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Subject: Observation: 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.
When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

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

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From lsato@uu.net Tue Apr 12 16:03:13 1994
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From: lsato@uu.net (Lars Sato)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Apr10.191513.8159@ox.ac.uk>, noliveira@ox.ac.uk (Nadia Oliveira) 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.

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 ysilva@kth.se Thu Apr 14 02:22:13 1994
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From: ysilva@kth.se (Yuki Silva)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 02:22:13 GMT
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In article <1994Apr12.160313.4822@uu.net>, lsato@uu.net (Lars Sato) 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.
> Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind).

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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