From glaurent@inria.fr Fri Aug 04 10:43:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!glaurent From: glaurent@inria.fr (Graham Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug04.104336.4744@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 10:43:36 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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? -- Graham Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From mfournier@earthlink.net Sat Aug 05 17:31:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!mfournier From: mfournier@earthlink.net (Mike Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug05.173136.8682@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 17:31:36 GMT References: <1995Aug04.104336.4744@inria.fr> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug04.104336.4744@inria.fr>, glaurent@inria.fr (Graham Laurent) 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. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Mike Fournier "Do not worship the copy." Atari TT030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From lkarlsson@kth.se Mon Aug 07 05:19:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@kth.se (Lucia Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Aug07.051936.5008@kth.se> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 05:19:36 GMT References: <1995Aug04.104336.4744@inria.fr> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug04.104336.4744@inria.fr>, glaurent@inria.fr (Graham Laurent) 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. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Lucia Karlsson -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "We don't sign stars. We build them."