Backwards Sound

I may have the sound. How do you reverse an audio clip?

In one of the Anderton vids ("The Next Level" IIRC) he messes around with this type of stuff. His main goal in the segment is to apply reverse reverb/delay on a clip but to do that he actually reverses the clip first, applies the effects and then reverses it again so it plays forward with the effect. It looks pretty easy but the steps are fairly specific. You might want to check that out. I've actually been revisiting an old favorite album of mine from when I was a kid. Metallica's "And Justice For All". The intro track that builds up to "Blackened" is all that wacky reversed guitar stuff. I'd like to play around with things like that. It sounds really creepy and cool.

A great thing to do is to reverse all your tracks and do a complete mix with everything in reverse. And then reverse the final result of course to put it all back to normal.

You end up with a more percussive mix and also all your compressors will work much better because they are dealing with the ends of sounds rather than the beginning of them. 

You do need to print any time based effects such as reverb and delays if you want them to come out normal I am sure that would be obvious. Unless you want some more interesting effects such as reverse reverb and delays etc.

It does work!

Jeff just kind of blew my mind a little.

One thing I heard sometime back on the Doctor Demento show.....  A band had taken a song recorded in normal mode.... reversed it and then learned it BACKWARDS... including vocals.  Then after it was recorded, they reversed that essentially making it a "forwards song" again..... it was...shall we say... Interesting.