From jtakahashi@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Jun 09 00:39:18 1994
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From: jtakahashi@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jens Takahashi)
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Subject: 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.

In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.
However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.

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

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From llaurent@purdue.edu Thu Jun 09 02:11:18 1994
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From: llaurent@purdue.edu (Liam Laurent)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Jun09.003918.9556@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, jtakahashi@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jens Takahashi) 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.
> In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

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 mivanov@berkeley.edu Sat Jun 11 03:46:18 1994
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Jun09.021118.1479@purdue.edu>, llaurent@purdue.edu (Liam Laurent) 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.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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