From btakahashi@cam.ac.uk Sun Dec 03 21:11:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!btakahashi From: btakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Bastien Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 21:11:35 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk 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. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Bastien Takahashi "Do not worship the copy." Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04 From reriksson@cmu.edu Tue Dec 05 20:36:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!reriksson From: reriksson@cmu.edu (Rodrigo Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec05.203635.3762@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 20:36:35 GMT References: <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk>, btakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Bastien Takahashi) 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. 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. -- === Rodrigo Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From smoreno@kiae.su Thu Dec 07 09:37:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!smoreno From: smoreno@kiae.su (Sun-mi Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec07.093735.7349@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:37:35 GMT References: <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk>, btakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Bastien Takahashi) 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Sun-mi Moreno "We don't sign stars. We build them." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / System 7.5.1 From ofischer@utexas.edu Thu Dec 07 13:50:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!ofischer From: ofischer@utexas.edu (Olga Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec07.135035.3960@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 13:50:35 GMT References: <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk> <1995Dec07.093735.7349@kiae.su> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec07.093735.7349@kiae.su>, smoreno@kiae.su (Sun-mi Moreno) 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. The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova. -- Olga Fischer *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From dtakahashi@cmu.edu Thu Dec 07 18:28:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!dtakahashi From: dtakahashi@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Dec07.182835.1999@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 18:28:35 GMT References: <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec03.211135.4269@cam.ac.uk>, btakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Bastien Takahashi) 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. If you stare at static on a TV long enough you see faces. If you slow down audio by 1400% you hear voices. Get some sleep. -- Dong-hyun Takahashi Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.