From btanaka@tum.de Tue Sep 05 20:47:28 1995
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From: btanaka@tum.de (Bastien Tanaka)
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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.

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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Bastien Tanaka
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From tsantos@rwth-aachen.de Thu Sep 07 18:54:28 1995
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From: tsantos@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Santos)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Sep05.204728.2156@tum.de>, btanaka@tum.de (Bastien Tanaka) 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.

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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=== Thiago Santos ===
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From nsmirnov@cam.ac.uk Sat Sep 09 01:30:28 1995
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From: nsmirnov@cam.ac.uk (Natalia Smirnov)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Sep07.185428.8610@rwth-aachen.de>, tsantos@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Santos) writes:
> Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

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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Natalia Smirnov
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