Silly, Silly Tape Recorder III - Reverse Speech!

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Play With Reverse Speech Using a Vintage Reel to Reel Tape Recorder!

This How-To video shows you how to use a single vintage reel to reel tape recorder to create your own version of "reverse speech". It is for experimental purposes only. It uses words and sentences of the English language, but the technique should work for experimental purposes with ANY spoken language. All languages have different rules of pronunciation, so experimental results in a non-English language may prove very interesting!

Reverse speech has been reported to be used in pop music (starting with the Beatles) and in such use, it is called "backmasking". This video shows you what is involved in creating reverse speech so you can better understand, through experience, how to produce it and why it is such a controversial topic. The experiment here is completely safe and will not work to produce backmasking or any effective subliminal messages in your audio projects.

The video was inspired by a fun video made by CassetteMaster called: "Reverse Speak", available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrkvxPMfZrI .

Our video shows you how to use a single mono vintage reel to reel tape recorder to learn and create reverse speech. The tape recorder in this experiment produces a muffled sound, but it does give true reverse speech.

Please DO NOT try the technique used here with a cassette recorder. You will only ruin the tape. Cassettes cannot be manipulated the same way as the reel to reel tape used in this video.

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[Visewesi]

cool experiment. I did the same thing using adacity. This is a good way to check yourself.

[clydesight]

@Visewesi Thanks. I have Audacity too and you sure can reverse speech on it like you said. I do find the quality is quite different though. I found a tape that was playing some of my own music backwards (I must have recorded it on stereo machine and played it back on a Mono or something). It was interesting on the tape recorder. I tried it in Audacity, but some of the sounds got lost, so it wasn't so interesting.

[RODALCO2007]

Awesome !! Very well explained and done. I really love your experiment.

Have done it with a Akai GX 620 - 4 track recorder running the tape the wrong side of the capstan ( about 25 years ago). This is a three motor deck and the tape does run in reverse perfectly.

Some music tracks sounded very cool.

You triggered the idea again and I may have a go at it as well.

[clydesight]

@RODALCO2007

Thanks! It's a silly thing to do, and digital does it better, but it was fun and a way to make the old recorders do something silly. If you try it again on you Akai, how about a video? And YES, some music tracks sound VERY interesting when played in reverse.

[RODALCO2007]

@clydesight I will look for that tape, otherwise I make a new recording.

I will keep you posted. Keep up the good work.

[clydesight]

@RODALCO2007 Thanks!

[clydecross1983]

damn Clyde thats cool as hell great observations

[Visewesi]

@clydesight I'm sure the tape does come through better word for word. It's like listening in raw form where as audacity kinds smooths things over. Thanks for the reply.

[clydesight]

@btown2011

Yes, Audactiy does this quite well. But it can't make a tape recorder do silly tricks.

That was the point of this video, to make a tape recorder do something silly.

Anyone who wants true reverse speech would, as you said, use something like Audacity. I like that program.

[btown2011]

i just use audacity.