From alaurent@cern.ch Mon Oct 28 12:25:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!alaurent From: alaurent@cern.ch (Astrid Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct28.122543.6069@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:25:43 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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? -- Astrid Laurent -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From mtanaka@stanford.edu Mon Oct 28 19:12:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!mtanaka From: mtanaka@stanford.edu (Mike Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct28.191243.8595@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:12:43 GMT References: <1996Oct28.122543.6069@cern.ch> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct28.122543.6069@cern.ch>, alaurent@cern.ch (Astrid Laurent) 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. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Mike Tanaka Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Do not worship the copy." From ykowalski@cmu.edu Tue Oct 29 12:30:43 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!ykowalski From: ykowalski@cmu.edu (Yuki Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Oct29.123043.8947@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:30:43 GMT References: <1996Oct28.122543.6069@cern.ch> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct28.122543.6069@cern.ch>, alaurent@cern.ch (Astrid Laurent) 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. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Yuki Kowalski US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."