From hnakamura@mit.edu Mon May 16 05:22:45 1994
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From: hnakamura@mit.edu (Heather Nakamura)
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Subject: Discussion: 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.
In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands?

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From hhughes@demon.co.uk Tue May 17 21:36:45 1994
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994May16.052245.3328@mit.edu>, hnakamura@mit.edu (Heather Nakamura) 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.

Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

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