From tlopez@cmu.edu Mon Apr 18 12:18:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!tlopez From: tlopez@cmu.edu (Takeshi López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr18.121818.7291@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 12:18:18 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- === Takeshi López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From mweber@pipeline.com Tue Apr 19 18:48:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!mweber From: mweber@pipeline.com (Mathieu Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr19.184818.2724@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 18:48:18 GMT References: <1994Apr18.121818.7291@cmu.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr18.121818.7291@cmu.edu>, tlopez@cmu.edu (Takeshi López) 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. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Mathieu Weber -- The Pipeline Internet Network "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From jpark@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Apr 20 10:23:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!jpark From: jpark@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Joachim Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr20.102318.3470@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 10:23:18 GMT References: <1994Apr18.121818.7291@cmu.edu> <1994Apr19.184818.2724@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr19.184818.2724@pipeline.com>, mweber@pipeline.com (Mathieu Weber) writes: > I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. 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. -- Joachim Park "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Acorn RiscPC 600 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From mtakahashi@berkeley.edu Thu Apr 21 14:47:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@berkeley.edu (Marta Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr21.144718.1245@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 14:47:18 GMT References: <1994Apr18.121818.7291@cmu.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr18.121818.7291@cmu.edu>, tlopez@cmu.edu (Takeshi López) 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. 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. -- Marta Takahashi | mtakahashi@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 3CD6 7047 BE61 D128 "Keep the channels open."