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Date Posted: 20:18:54 06/28/00 Wed
Author: kristen
Subject: Re: Silly stuff on Discovery Channel
In reply to: Vince 's message, "Silly stuff on Discovery Channel" on 18:03:15 06/28/00 Wed

> I just sat through an episode on the Discovery Channel
> showing some people attempting to speak to potential
> ghosts and then record the "conversations". The data
> was then manipulated on a PC by an individual who was
> obviously not an audio engineer and knew more of audio
> than squiggly lines on his monitor and "cool colors".
> If that wasn't bad enough, the "audio" that was
> recorded appeared to be recorded with a micro cassette
> recorder or similar with an external mic. The EVP
> frequency in question was from 0Hz to 300Hz. At best
> portable audio equipment can only record from 20Hz to
> 20KHz, and microphones can record a lesser range. So
> how did they pick out and manipulate audio at 12Hz
> with a portable rig. As much as I would like to buy
> this (I know a few ghosts myself) - if people are
> going to try to use the public media as a forum, they
> should at least either do some techical research, or
> provide some technical data to quiet the doubters like
> me.


Saw the same show samw day samw time. they were very phony!

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[> Re: Silly stuff on Discovery Channel -- Brandie, 05:24:54 09/13/00 Wed

you know, they have to keep people that aren't normally interested in the paranormal interested. So they have to make it more severe.


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