![]() ![]() ![]() We suspect musicians and studio engineers were experimenting with reverse echo as early as the 1940’s, but we don’t have proof. In one area of this discussion we only have clues, leads, and claims from dubious characters. It’s typically used to sound eerie and scary to create an ‘outer space,’ mystical, or psychedelic atmosphere, or to build up intensity before a segment of a song with a denser arrangement and orchestration. Where as normal reverb is generally used to emulate the acoustic characteristics of differing physical spaces (like making your music or instrument sound as if it was recorded in a concert hall or church cathedral), when played in reverse it sounds completely unnatural.įor this reason it is used as a special audio effect rather than in a natural sounding, accompanying soundscape design. Reverse reverb is exactly that, a backwards reverb that builds up in volume instead of decreasing and occurs before the original sound instead of after it. These echoes repeat so fast they are heard more as a “smearing out” of the original sound, which continues into the reverb body and decay tail at a continually decreasing volume until silent. The basics are that a source signal makes a sound and then after a period of time called pre-delay, the first early reflections begin echoing. Let’s quickly define what it is for the newcomers, give a few examples of how it sounds, talk about how it was originally invented and applied, and then I’ll show you the three ways we create it now with our advanced technology.įor those who need a bit of a background, please skim our articles ‘ What is Reverb‘ and the ‘ Types of Reverb,’ because you’ll have to make decisions on which type to use and understand how to use the effect normally before you flip it backwards. And thanks to computers and lookahead algorithms it’s easier than ever to create. People call it different things: reverse echo, backwards reverb, reverse regeneration… but in the professional sector of the music industry we plainly call it the reverse reverb effect.
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