From dkuznetsov@kth.se Sun Aug 28 12:38:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!dkuznetsov From: dkuznetsov@kth.se (Dave Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug28.123836.7256@kth.se> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 12:38:36 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands? -- Dave Kuznetsov "We don't sign stars. We build them." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From jwatanabe@panix.com Mon Aug 29 13:35:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!jwatanabe From: jwatanabe@panix.com (Jen Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug29.133536.9581@panix.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 13:35:36 GMT References: <1994Aug28.123836.7256@kth.se> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug28.123836.7256@kth.se>, dkuznetsov@kth.se (Dave Kuznetsov) 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. -- Jen Watanabe *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0