I have something that I’d like to determine if there are any hidden messages on but have no device to find out. You’ll recall that some folks several years ago were saying that Led Zepplin’s “Stairway to Heaven” was examined in such a way and thus was found to have some distrubing stuff on it. I’d like to know where to buy such a recorder and would appreciate any help in someone steering me in the right direction. Thanks!
The wave file recording studio that used to come with your Creative sound card, had a reverse function that turned your digital recording 180 degrees around. You could then play it back in reverse. Many of the recording and editing studios had this feature.
The only recorder I know of you could buy that played back tapes in reverse was a reel to reel. You could run it back fast with the head partialy engaged and here the sound fast in reverse. You could load the tape in a different manor and play back the recording in reverse. You cut and taped the the recording medium together to edit and was called splicing. I’m sure recording studio units could run it backwards, but they were astronomicaly high in price at the time of the reel to reels ordinary people got.
Step 1: Open Windows sound recorder.
Step 2: Record audio
Step 3: Select Effects-> Reverse
Step 4: Play reversed file.
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The freeware audio editor, Audacity, has this feature. It’s under Effects, called Reverse. Open up a .wav file, select Reverse, and bingo!
I am using a mac and really barely know what I’m doing. I was hoping that I could just buy a small hand-held device somewhere rather than trying to figure out how to figure out where the sound hole is on the mac and do things that way.
Audacity is easy to use, and can operate from a cd in your computer’s optical drive; no need for a sound hole.
It’s very simple: open Audacity, then File–>Open. . . , navigate to the tune in question and select it.
It will take a minute or so to import. Then Edit–>Select . . .–>All.
Then Effect–>Reverse, and voila!
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You would rather pay money for a device that doesn’t exist, than download some free software and have done with it in minutes? I don’t understand.
Maybe I should have mentioned that the audio in question is on a DVD movie. I suppose I could record it as if it were a CD and listen to the whole thing. I also have an interview that’s on a cassette tape, which would be better suited for a divice that can be hand-held.
Thanks for the info!!
Hmm, that makes it more complicated.
You can record audio from Apple’s DVD Player (or any other application) using AudioHijack, which is not exactly free but has a generous demo functionality that should work for your purposes.
The cassette would require you to pump sound into your Mac’s audio input (a term I would recommend over sound hole). If you can specify what type of Mac you have (if you’re not sure, go to the Apple menu and select About This Mac) and what type of outputs your cassette player has (probably either RCA or 1/8th inch), we could probably help.
Thanks hoops for the comments. I am in no hurry to mess with it now … but when I do I’ll look into what you said about using the DVD player. The cassette is of less interest to me … .
My “sound hole” comment was written more in the spirit of jest, as I found myself feeling somewhat intimidated by how things were getting technical and complicated for this computer ignoramus by what some folks were advising. (Oh boy, I hope they don’t now come back with a "Huh? What are you talking about?! … )
I do thank all of you for being so kind with your time and great advise!!!
I tried to do that, but ‘sad satan’ ‘gave me 6 6 6’.
You can do it with a cassette 4-track by recording on channels 1 and 2, flipping the tape, and playing back on 3 and 4. Or record on 1, playback on 4, record on 2, playback on 3 (IIRC. It’s been about 20 years since I was into that stuff).
Also, 4 tracks usually play tape at a faster speed, so you can’t just pop a regular tape in. Better to go the digital route, anyway.
Thanks, mack!