From amacdonald@demon.co.uk Sat Jul 16 04:22:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!amacdonald From: amacdonald@demon.co.uk (Aiko MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul16.042209.8158@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 04:22:09 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Aiko MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From schoi@cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 17 16:49:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!schoi From: schoi@cam.ac.uk (Sun-mi Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul17.164909.7085@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 16:49:09 GMT References: <1994Jul16.042209.8158@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jul16.042209.8158@demon.co.uk>, amacdonald@demon.co.uk (Aiko MacDonald) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Sun-mi Choi | schoi@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 915C 88F6 F04D C959 "Keep the channels open." From kpark@stanford.edu Tue Jul 19 04:06:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!kpark From: kpark@stanford.edu (Kirsty Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul19.040609.2033@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 04:06:09 GMT References: <1994Jul16.042209.8158@demon.co.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul16.042209.8158@demon.co.uk>, amacdonald@demon.co.uk (Aiko MacDonald) writes: > Let's settle the 'voice under the voice' rumor once and for all. > It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' 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. -- === Kirsty Park === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."