Reverse Recording Good Times

Reverse recording has been around as long as recording technology. There are lots of ways to accomplish this but lately it has become much easier for the average person to turn their words around at the push of a button. I recently got an iPhone. And I must say it is every bit as great as reported. The app. scene is what makes these phones so versatile. One can find app's for virtually any task needed. From tip calculators to 4 track recorders, mirrors to news aggregates to tuners and amoritization the list in varied and at times amazing.
Last night I was on the way back to the hotel after a gig at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle. I was showing some of the guys different app's and letting them play around with them. Claude was using the voice transformer recording
himself with robot voice, deep voice, static, echo, etc. One of the choices is reverse. He said when they were kids they had a few different sounds they would make which when recorded and played backwards would reveal spoken words. He tried some but none were working. I realized at this point one could say something then listen back while learning the phonetic pronunciation. I tried it saying "let me in" in a slow deliberate voice. Listening back it sounded like "may bell. " So i tried saying may bell into the recorder and then playing that back. Lo and behold it sounded as if I was saying "let me in." I tried lots of words and phrases after that and lots of them worked. I was cracking up it was so cool. This is not ground breaking information that language is built from many different sounds. But this is one of the most entertaining ways to hear and understand the way this works. I suggest you give it a try. Some things are just too unnatural sounding to repeat. But if one takes time to go over it and practice it a few times the accuracy improves.