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Creating and using backwards reverb in a DAW

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Creating and using backwards reverb in a DAW

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Backwards reverb can create a really awesome, ghostly effect. You get the tail of the reverb going in the wrong direction, swooping in before a sound enters a song. You hear that on stuff like Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, all the weird stuff in the middle. It's spooky, it's crazy, you hear it in ghost movies and stuff. It's the, the voice from beyond, whispering to somebody in the present day. Now back in the old days, we did that on tape. We'd take a reel of tape like this. (SOUND) We'd flip it over. (SOUND) We would take the track that we wanted to send the reverb, which is now playing in reverse. Send that to the reverb unit, record a couple of tracks of reverb back on the tape, then we take our tapes off the tape deck, flip them over, play them it the normal direction. At that point, the reverb would precede like, say, the vocal and swoop up into the vocal sound. That's how we got backwards reverb. Now, in the computer, it's a little bit different. The first thing you need to…

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