From mgirard@cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 13 03:13:32 1995
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From: mgirard@cam.ac.uk (Mike Girard)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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.

I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones.

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From areyes@pacbell.net Sat Jul 15 00:41:32 1995
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From: areyes@pacbell.net (Anja Reyes)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul13.031332.1318@cam.ac.uk>, mgirard@cam.ac.uk (Mike Girard) 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 knakamura@netcom.com Sat Jul 15 03:19:32 1995
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From: knakamura@netcom.com (Kirsty Nakamura)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul15.004132.1749@pacbell.net>, areyes@pacbell.net (Anja Reyes) writes:
> Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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

My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise!

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From knilsson@hanse.de Sat Jul 15 23:11:32 1995
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul15.004132.1749@pacbell.net>, areyes@pacbell.net (Anja Reyes) writes:
> Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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.

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=== Kirsty Nilsson ===
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."