From leriksson@panix.com Wed Jul 24 08:03:03 1996
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From: leriksson@panix.com (Lisa Eriksson)
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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.

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.

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

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From nmuller@delphi.com Fri Jul 26 04:09:03 1996
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From: nmuller@delphi.com (Nadine Müller)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Jul24.080303.5784@panix.com>, leriksson@panix.com (Lisa Eriksson) 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.

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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From ahughes@clari.net Sat Jul 27 01:29:03 1996
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From: ahughes@clari.net (Amy Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Jul26.040903.8290@delphi.com>, nmuller@delphi.com (Nadine Müller) writes:
> Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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From aduarte@netcom.com Sun Jul 28 02:05:03 1996
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From: aduarte@netcom.com (Anton Duarte)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 02:05:03 GMT
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In article <1996Jul27.012903.9995@clari.net>, ahughes@clari.net (Amy Hughes) writes:
> Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

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.

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