From vbrennan@pipeline.com Fri May 12 22:17:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!vbrennan From: vbrennan@pipeline.com (Valeria Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995May12.221728.9457@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 22:17:28 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Valeria Brennan "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Decstation 5000/200 / SunOS 4.1.4 From mjohansson@mit.edu Sat May 13 15:47:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!mjohansson From: mjohansson@mit.edu (Mikhail Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995May13.154728.8755@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 15:47:28 GMT References: <1995May12.221728.9457@pipeline.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995May12.221728.9457@pipeline.com>, vbrennan@pipeline.com (Valeria Brennan) 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. 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. -- === Mikhail Johansson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From slee@panix.com Mon May 15 07:43:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!slee From: slee@panix.com (Steve Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995May15.074328.2165@panix.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 07:43:28 GMT References: <1995May12.221728.9457@pipeline.com> <1995May13.154728.8755@mit.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995May13.154728.8755@mit.edu>, mjohansson@mit.edu (Mikhail Johansson) 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. 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. -- Steve Lee | slee@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: 7F8D 5950 87C9 1A3D "Keep the channels open."