From lnakamura@pacbell.net Mon Jun 06 14:11:55 1994
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From: lnakamura@pacbell.net (Lisa Nakamura)
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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.

It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'
When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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=== Lisa Nakamura ===
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From ekang@demon.co.uk Mon Jun 06 16:50:55 1994
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From: ekang@demon.co.uk (Emi Kang)
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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 <1994Jun06.141155.3108@pacbell.net>, lnakamura@pacbell.net (Lisa Nakamura) 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 doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

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

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

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