From pstewart@berkeley.edu Sun Jul 17 11:52:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!pstewart From: pstewart@berkeley.edu (Pavel Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul17.115226.3582@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 11:52:26 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu 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. 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.' Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- === Pavel Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "They will send a copy in my place." From tsmirnov@uu.net Mon Jul 18 06:06:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!tsmirnov From: tsmirnov@uu.net (Tyler Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul18.060626.1633@uu.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 06:06:26 GMT References: <1994Jul17.115226.3582@berkeley.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul17.115226.3582@berkeley.edu>, pstewart@berkeley.edu (Pavel Stewart) 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. -- Tyler Smirnov US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Do not worship the copy." From kmuller@panix.com Mon Jul 18 23:58:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!kmuller From: kmuller@panix.com (Kenji Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul18.235826.7177@panix.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 23:58:26 GMT References: <1994Jul17.115226.3582@berkeley.edu> <1994Jul18.060626.1633@uu.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul18.060626.1633@uu.net>, tsmirnov@uu.net (Tyler Smirnov) 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Kenji Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From bgarcia@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 20 07:43:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!bgarcia From: bgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Bill García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Jul20.074326.4970@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 07:43:26 GMT References: <1994Jul17.115226.3582@berkeley.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jul17.115226.3582@berkeley.edu>, pstewart@berkeley.edu (Pavel Stewart) 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. 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Bill García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0