From kpetrov@ox.ac.uk Thu Nov 09 18:18:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!kpetrov From: kpetrov@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Nov09.181818.4011@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 18:18:18 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Kenji Petrov -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From rgonzalez@unam.mx Sat Nov 11 21:38:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!rgonzalez From: rgonzalez@unam.mx (Raj González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Nov11.213818.6262@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 21:38:18 GMT References: <1995Nov09.181818.4011@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov09.181818.4011@ox.ac.uk>, kpetrov@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Petrov) 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. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Raj González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From rsmirnov@cern.ch Mon Nov 13 05:09:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!rsmirnov From: rsmirnov@cern.ch (Renata Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Nov13.050918.5268@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 05:09:18 GMT References: <1995Nov09.181818.4011@ox.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov09.181818.4011@ox.ac.uk>, kpetrov@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Petrov) 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Renata Smirnov SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."