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[Wabonan]

The problem with the CM is its along time between videos. The game gets active players every video. Then they get mad and quit cuz it takes so long for each video to come out... This game has been running since October thats a long time for a home grown to run. There should be another video comming out in a bit.

[CortezTheKiller]

So, thanks to Llama's enquiry we know that the blips in the voicemail appear to be Morse Code. Didn't we try this though and come up with nothing?

There's also more information that Eric's dad has from the Sam Deercot which he will make available shortly.

[Das Llama]

Tempra,

Could you post a full version of what you did earlier in the thread with the taps and the timing spaces.

On this webpage you can type in dots and dashes and it will translate the code. http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

I took the small part you had and I typed the .12 second spaces as dots and the .24 as dashes (?maybe the .36 is a space for a new word?)

...--.-. / ----.-

I added in spaces here and there and got it to spell "I went" with a few dots and dashes left over.

.. .-- . -. - / --- .-

Im not saying that what I did, or the way I did it is right, but this seemed pretty easy to do.

Maybe seeing a larger amount the way you were doing it might help us form some theories as to how to try and figure this out.


Llama Llama

[Mn3MoN1C]

I agree. I'm trying to listen to the clicks and reproduce them to analyze it but I can't seem to get it. An extension of your previous post would be greatly appreciated and very helpful, tempera.

Edit: As I'm listening to it all i can decipher is

[Tempera]

Oh okay! Seems like some light has been shed! I was busy for the past few days. But I'll get cracking again and see what I can put up.

Were the last 3 images posted too small to be analyzed? I'll make sure the image dimensions are larger (similar to the very first plot with fancy photoshop edits) this time.

*Will post some results in a few hours, after I get on my better computer*

Thanks, and good call, guys !

[Line Ghost]

I have fairly extensive experience working with sound (I'm a sound engineer, basically)... if you guys think it might be useful I can try and isolate the clicks from the speech? No promises, but I can definitely give it a try.

I'll see how I fare at translating it too. Speak soon.

[Tempera]

Wow if there is any way of removing the sermon from the clip, that'd be optimal. A lot of the taps don't stand out very much magnitude-wise. I tried some filters but it didn't work out. I even found the source of the original speech but had no idea how to cancel the sound.

Having said that, here is the first half of the speech with taps. There are no overlaps from one plot to another. Also, the corresponding ~3.5s sound clips for each graph are attached for reference.

Time to finish that second part now.

P.S. I'm worried that some the "cuts" I made for these plots might not be good, as they seem to cut some sequences in half... Tell me if that interferes with the decoding... I can put up new images.

P.P.S. If the clicks are hard to identify, I think I can also manage to slow down the sound clips with some Winamp plug-ins... The quality might be bad though.

Edit: 2nd Part Attached

[Das Llama]

Line Ghost,

Please jump in, whatever you could do would be a help.

I believe that this is has the recording of the sermon in it. You will have to subscribe to an e-mail to hear it. I was thinking it might help if you have a clean version with out the taps to compare to the tapped version.

This was a quick search from Walabys link to the text of the sermon. Good job mate !

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?currSection=sermonssource&sermonID=52906154239


Duck

[Line Ghost]

Ok, weeell. I recorded the relevant part of the sermon off a video of it I found on MySpace Videos, for trying to cancel it out. Cancelling part of a sound out works by what's known as "phase cancellation". You take two identical waveforms, and invert the ampitudes of one. Then, when you combine the two, they cancel each other out. If one's got extra stuff, that extra stuff will be left (supposedly) mostly intact. It's a trick that's used in sound recording to battle interference in leads - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_line

However, it didn't work I'm afraid. The problem was that the audio from the phone call is obviously affected by being recorded into the phone by the CM, and then again when it was recorded back out by Cortez. Out of interest, how did you record it Cortez? Also, were those strange blips and glitches in the speech from the phone or did they get introduced during recording? Either way, as the two signals I was using are slightly different, it won't work.

I also tried finding the resonant frequencies in the tapping and then boosting them and filtering out the others, but the preacher's voice clashes with those frequencies too, so that comes through the filter a lot and spoils things.

So what I'm trying to do instead as the moment is listening through and just silencing the voice manually in between clicks, so we can see clearly what the click pattern is. I'm about 20% of the way through doing that at the moment.

[CortezTheKiller]

Hi LineGhost,

I recorded it with an audio recorder that just records whatever the soundcard is putting out to a file as I had dialled the number with Skype. The glitches are an artefact due to drop-outs in the signal as the message was being transmitted to my computer from the host. I have an 8meg broadband connection and a M-Audio Delta 10-10 for output, so the quality of the recording was good but still there's the dropouts. I'll try again and see if I can get a clean recording. If not, I can splice two recordings together to create a glitch-free 'master'.

I've fed the recording it into Nuendo and tried to identify which frequencies to boost/cut, but with no joy - whichever frequency I try, there is always some of the voice remaining. I tried the phase cancellation too, but without joy.

I did manage to quieten the voice in relation to the clicks, though, but not enough to completely isolate the clicks. There are still places in the wav where the click is obscured by the sermon.

[Tempera]

Here is a breakdown of all the sound clips at about 70% speed. Sorry for the poor quality. Also the high-freq components are somewhat attenuated.

And now I'm just listening to those, and mapping the speech/taps back onto the plots to see if someone can construct a good Morse Code pattern. (More plots to be posted)

Oh, the mapping is really prone to error though, especially when the taps are hidden in the speech.


Edited: More parts uploaded

Edited @ Mar. 3rd 10pm EST+ DST: Had a friend listen/look over the files and made some correctios.

[C/CMSgt. Snyder]

Would anyone by any chance know the name of the piece played in the video "Still Life and Death"?


-C/CMSgt. Snyder

[CWallaby55]

The piece in "Still Life..." is Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."

[C/CMSgt. Snyder]

Thank you kindly.


-C/CMSgt. Snyder

[Tempera]

To represent a Morse code, five digital states are required: dot, dash, letter spacing, word spacing, and sentences spacing. I have indeed identified 5 different intervals in between the taps. However, their positions don't really make sense. Anyway, this is what I have after connecting the first 4 plots together:

. = 0.12 s
- = 0.24s
| = 0.36s
/ = 0.48
; = 0.6s

(Part 1)
. . . - - . - . | - - - - . -

(Part 2)
; - . . . - . - - / . - . .

(Part 3)
; - - - . . - - - - . ; - .

(Part 4)
Either
- ; - | - - | - - - - .

Or
. . ; - | - - | - - - - .

I'm really uncertain about Part 4 though. And I just thought of something... what if we're supposed to use the Fibonacci ROT rule in decoding this too !?