From ydubois@pacbell.net Fri May 13 18:07:16 1994
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From: ydubois@pacbell.net (Yuki Dubois)
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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.

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?

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From: estewart@uu.net (Élodie Stewart)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994May13.180716.1096@pacbell.net>, ydubois@pacbell.net (Yuki Dubois) 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.

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

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From nchoi@cmu.edu Sun May 15 12:02:16 1994
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From: nchoi@cmu.edu (Nadia Choi)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994May13.180716.1096@pacbell.net>, ydubois@pacbell.net (Yuki Dubois) 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.

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

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