From tfournier@mindspring.com Wed Oct 16 08:51:10 1996
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From: tfournier@mindspring.com (Tyler Fournier)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: 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.

However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.
When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones.

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=== Tyler Fournier ===
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From nmartinez@pacbell.net Wed Oct 16 15:29:10 1996
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From: nmartinez@pacbell.net (Nadia Martínez)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1996Oct16.085110.3623@mindspring.com>, tfournier@mindspring.com (Tyler Fournier) 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.

It's not pareidolia. The speech envelope matches phoneme transitions perfectly.

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Nadia Martínez <nmartinez@pacbell.net>
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