This document proposes methods for novelty detection in variable speed machinery. It summarizes that: 1) Monitoring machinery is limited by changes in speed and load, termed "nuisance parameters". 2) A novel method called "multi-modal novelty detection" is proposed to employ intuition from "statistical parameterization" without its limitations by adding modal parameters like speed to feature vectors. 3) An experimental methodology is described involving sensors, data acquisition, and segmentation to generate feature vectors from variable speed tests with simulated faults, and results show standard techniques fail without speed adaptation while multi-modal novelty detection compares well.