Audio effect question.

[Ptownkid]

I have a friend who wants a kinda reverse sounding effect, hopefully that makes sense. Basically something that sounds like when you record something and flip is backwards.

Anyone know of anything like that or what would be involved, or if it's even possible. I was thinking that it might have to be like a reverse gate kinda thing. Take a small signal, boost is for X amount of time and then cut it off abruptly.

 

[gar381]

Bryan...

Maybe an old school answer from an old guy.

Maybe an EVENTIDE OMNIPRESSOR ??

It can make forward sounding stuff sound backwards in real time.

GARY

 

[Ptownkid]

oddly enough, that's the exact reference he used, something like an omnipressor were his exact words.

 

[drpat]

We used to flip the reels over and print reverb onto another track. Then when you flip the reel back over, the reverb was reversed. Here's where it got tricky. If you were printing the reverb to track 3, once the reel was flipped over, you'd need to record it to track 22. If the source was on track 12, once the reel was flipped, it ended up on track 13.

It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier now. Just print reverb onto a spare track in your DAW of choice, and use the "reverse" plug-in. Move the new file to where you want it. That's it...

The H3000 has some pretty cool patches that do this type of thing too (but not with compression). "BIG LIGHT ECHO" comes to mind immediately...

 

[RoyM]

[quote author="drpat"]
It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier now. Just print reverb onto a spare track in your DAW of choice, and use the "reverse" plug-in. Move the new file to where you want it. That's it...
[/quote]

In a DAW it's actually a bit trickier than that. If you print the reverb on another track and reverse it the end of the track is now at the front and doesn't line up with the original.

For example:
Track One "Beat on the brat"
Reversed "tarb eht no taeB"
"Tarb" would play with "Beat"
What works for me is to reverse the track first, process with reverb, and reverse again.
I hope I'm making sense.
Sorry for the hijack. I've been doing reverse reverb alot lately so it's on my mind. Reverse delay is cool too. Oh and reverse ring mod...

Roy

 

[JohnRoberts]

The key characteristic of rolling tape backwards is that sounds swell to a peak and then drop off to nothing,, the exact opposite of forward where sounds have a peak transient then slowly tail off.

A dynamics processor can somewhat mimic that reverse envelope by slowly swelling and decaying rapidly, but this isn't easy to completely cover the backwards effect.

JR

 

[josh]

I like the Janes Addiction vocal trick they used alot.
Reverse the audio file, apply your favorite reverb with a super long tail, reverse it again. Viola, reverse reverb. There are plugins that have "reverse reverb" setting, usually something non-linear (Powercore Nonlin2 comes to mind) but none come close to doing it manually.

 

[josan]

Daw or pedal? Boss loop stations do a reverse loop. I have done it with
guitars and violins but the player has to think backwards to make the effect effective.

 

[drpat]

[quote author="RoyM"]If you print the reverb on another track and reverse it the end of the track is now at the front and doesn't line up with the original.[/quote]

Ooops, I didn't realize that we were talking about vocals. I was thinking percussion when I wrote that. I'll stick to the topic...

Funny, I just used that poltergeist effect on vocals last week. I ended up triggering the reverb from a non-reversed vocal part because it sounded creepier when the same pitch merged together. Had to individually do each word.

 

[Godders]

Not sure if it's what you're looking for but the SIR convolution plug has a reverse button. You can get some pretty funky backwards effects by using a long reverb, playing back a 100% wet signal and hitting the reverse button.

Cheers

Nick

 

[lernith]

For live effects. the Line 6 DL4 has a "reverse delay" that sounds great; the pedal has a lot of great sounding effects, and works well on vocals, too.