From isouza@purdue.edu Sat Apr 02 06:37:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!isouza From: isouza@purdue.edu (Ines Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr02.063714.4611@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 06:37:14 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu 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. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Ines Souza Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From yjohansson@purdue.edu Sat Apr 02 18:30:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!yjohansson From: yjohansson@purdue.edu (Yuki Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Apr02.183014.5495@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 18:30:14 GMT References: <1994Apr02.063714.4611@purdue.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr02.063714.4611@purdue.edu>, isouza@purdue.edu (Ines Souza) 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. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly. -- Yuki Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0