From flee@mit.edu Fri Jul 14 10:24:43 1995
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From: flee@mit.edu (Freya Lee)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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.
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?

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From rsuzuki@panix.com Sun Jul 16 04:47:43 1995
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul14.102443.1725@mit.edu>, flee@mit.edu (Freya Lee) 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.

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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From gkowalski@ox.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 01:09:43 1995
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul16.044743.5901@panix.com>, rsuzuki@panix.com (Rodrigo Suzuki) writes:
> 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.

I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

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From mgirard@cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 19 10:10:43 1995
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul14.102443.1725@mit.edu>, flee@mit.edu (Freya Lee) 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.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

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Marisol Girard
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