From mhughes@stanford.edu Mon Jul 17 12:04:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!mhughes From: mhughes@stanford.edu (Mathieu Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul17.120423.3548@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:04:23 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. -- Mathieu Hughes -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From jstewart@pacbell.net Tue Jul 18 22:40:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!jstewart From: jstewart@pacbell.net (Julien Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul18.224023.9710@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:40:23 GMT References: <1995Jul17.120423.3548@stanford.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul17.120423.3548@stanford.edu>, mhughes@stanford.edu (Mathieu Hughes) 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. -- Julien Stewart "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / AmigaOS 3.1 From htakahashi@pacbell.net Tue Jul 18 23:44:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!htakahashi From: htakahashi@pacbell.net (Hana Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jul18.234423.5682@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:44:23 GMT References: <1995Jul17.120423.3548@stanford.edu> <1995Jul18.224023.9710@pacbell.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul18.224023.9710@pacbell.net>, jstewart@pacbell.net (Julien Stewart) 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. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Hana Takahashi "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1