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From: bfischer@pipeline.com (Brian Fischer)
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Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.

When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.
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 stanaka@ox.ac.uk Tue May 09 14:08:27 1995
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995May07.200327.6914@pipeline.com>, bfischer@pipeline.com (Brian Fischer) writes:
> Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.
> When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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From fkuznetsov@utexas.edu Thu May 11 03:00:27 1995
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From: fkuznetsov@utexas.edu (Fiona Kuznetsov)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995May07.200327.6914@pipeline.com>, bfischer@pipeline.com (Brian Fischer) writes:
> Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all.
> When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

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.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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