From cokonkwo@kiae.su Sun Aug 20 17:57:53 1995
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From: cokonkwo@kiae.su (Callum Okonkwo)
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Subject: [FLAME] 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.

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

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From apopov@stanford.edu Tue Aug 22 20:11:53 1995
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From: apopov@stanford.edu (Astrid Popov)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Aug20.175753.3742@kiae.su>, cokonkwo@kiae.su (Callum Okonkwo) 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.
> However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse.

Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

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From nsuzuki@uu.net Wed Aug 23 10:43:53 1995
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From: nsuzuki@uu.net (Nadine Suzuki)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 10:43:53 GMT
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In article <1995Aug22.201153.9813@stanford.edu>, apopov@stanford.edu (Astrid Popov) writes:
> Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.
> Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech.

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

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