From imoreau@berkeley.edu Mon Sep 18 21:15:53 1995
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From: imoreau@berkeley.edu (Ines Moreau)
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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.

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 skuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de Tue Sep 19 00:09:53 1995
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From: skuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Sergei Kuznetsov)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Sep18.211553.7387@berkeley.edu>, imoreau@berkeley.edu (Ines Moreau) 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.

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.

If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again.

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From lreyes@mit.edu Tue Sep 19 23:17:53 1995
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From: lreyes@mit.edu (Lisa Reyes)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Sep18.211553.7387@berkeley.edu>, imoreau@berkeley.edu (Ines Moreau) 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.

Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

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