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rushinge · Boot Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

[Puzzle]Dial 0 for Operator

**Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:03 am

Pogo · Boot Joined: 12 Aug 2009 Posts: 40

I knew I should have bought an iPhone.

Come on, SOMEONE!

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28381&start=15

The melodies are here.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:15 am

noelle · Veteran Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 77

On it!

**Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:58 am

noelle · Veteran Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 77

so upon isolating that tone.. it does sound like 7 separate pulses of tones. However underlining it sounds like there may be some speech as well.

Also... it's the same tone.. I don't think it's a phone number.. :\

But... the numbers may be being spoken.. under the tone..

**Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:07 am

Nonmetals Nerd · Boot Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 30

From the other thread:

**Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:37 pm

rushinge · Boot Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

Hmm that's too bad. That "melody" I heard spoke of before really consists of only one tone? I'll see if I can figure anything out but I don't have time to perform a comprehensive audio analysys right now. Looks like I'm wrong about that melody being a number but considering the reply I got from J I think he's hoping that this avenue of discussion will yield some fruit even if my original assumptions are invalid. Keep up the good work and ideas!

**Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:58 pm

rushinge · Boot Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

Had another thought...

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:44 am

Grooze · Veteran Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 101

There's definitely a melody in the Regards audio, which does have different notes, but it's taking a while for two reasons: one is the distortion and noise drown out the actual tones, which makes them hard to isolate, and the other is that we had to compress the audio just to hear them, so in theory we could have any tones just by deciding how much to crush the wave by. That said, I think it's probably unlikely that Regards is a DTMF signal, because the tones are all of different lengths, and I'm not noticing two frequencies in each.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:18 am

Grooze · Veteran Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Posts: 101

On the significance of totheark's age

**Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:07 pm

morscata12 · Unfettered Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 351

Re: On the significance of totheark's age

**Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:25 pm

RedBlade2021 · Veteran Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 106

Anyone know who else drew a lot of O's from the MH video entries?

**Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:54 pm

SvenVikson

**Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:23 pm

Madman · Kilroy Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 2

So... I've gotten sucked in and have been fooling around trying to get the DTMF tones to sound like the little song I'm hearing in the regards video. It's been hard going, cause I'm unsure if I'm even listening to the things at the right frequency. I tried 4848275332, and that's a non-working number, so...

The reason I'm thinking this is cause when I was a kid, I used to play little songs on the phone by pressing the numbers, and this one sounds a but like something I could make cause all the notes are close to each other. You guys are way ahead of me; but maybe it'll be hard to do it empirically through analyzing the tone, since it's compressed and distorted. I tried to just sort of wing it and match the song by ear, but I had a hard time of it. I don't really know what the thing I'm hearing in my audio is if it's not some sort of song, and the audio that was linked to doesn't quite sound like mine, either. Maybe I did something wrong, but I can't help but think there's some significance in what I found, considering I pretty much just reversed it and sped it up a bit.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:33 pm

TNC · Guest

Try playing around with the graphic equalizer; Full Bass, Full Treble, Large Hall, and Techno give the best results on a VLC player. If someone could tell me how to save over the damn file, I'd upload it myslef :/

**Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:09 pm

Antonov · Boot Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 37

Has there been any progress with this? I think this is one of our best leads regarding the operator. I'm trying with audacity, no luck though.

EDIT: Madman, you are right. Excellent job! Very Happy

Sounds like a classical piece. I'll look into it.

EDIT2: I've been looking all over the place for it. I can't find anything. I'll keep looking, but here's what I BELIEVE so far:

It's either a symphony or a march, most likely strings mostly and percussion. Possible scales are: GB/F# Major, C#/Db Major, D#/Eb Minor. (I'd lean more towards minor, since totheark doesn't exactly seem like someone who's happy.)

That's all I can offer for now. But really, I could SWEAR that I've heard this somewhere before.

EDIT3: Okay, I'm giving up. I have a friend whose father is a musician (a pretty good one at that). I sent him the audio clip and asked if he or his dad can identify it. Hoping for a reply soon.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:48 pm