From mkarlsson@demon.co.uk Fri Nov 03 13:27:18 1995
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From: mkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Morag Karlsson)
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Subject: 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.

In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.
However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.

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

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From anilsson@uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov 05 16:17:18 1995
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From: anilsson@uni-hamburg.de (Aiko Nilsson)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Nov03.132718.5137@demon.co.uk>, mkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Morag Karlsson) 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.
> In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

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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From bstewart@pipeline.com Tue Nov 07 10:07:18 1995
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From: bstewart@pipeline.com (Bruno Stewart)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Nov03.132718.5137@demon.co.uk>, mkarlsson@demon.co.uk (Morag Karlsson) 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.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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