From tgirard@uni-hamburg.de Sat Nov 26 07:12:50 1994
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From: tgirard@uni-hamburg.de (Tobias Girard)
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Subject: Observation: 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.
It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

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

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From sgarcia@hanse.de Sun Nov 27 15:02:50 1994
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From: sgarcia@hanse.de (Sven García)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1994Nov26.071250.9600@uni-hamburg.de>, tgirard@uni-hamburg.de (Tobias Girard) 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 skang@rwth-aachen.de Tue Nov 29 07:41:50 1994
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From: skang@rwth-aachen.de (Steve Kang)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 07:41:50 GMT
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In article <1994Nov27.150250.5291@hanse.de>, sgarcia@hanse.de (Sven García) writes:
> Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

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.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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From scampbell@mindspring.com Tue Nov 29 11:15:50 1994
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From: scampbell@mindspring.com (Seo-yeon Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 11:15:50 GMT
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In article <1994Nov29.074150.4579@rwth-aachen.de>, skang@rwth-aachen.de (Steve Kang) 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.
> Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

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