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This post focuses on a unique way to produce backwards phrases with any instrument.

I used to have a bit of a fascination with backwards sounds when I got my first computer sound card. I would record my voice and play it backwards or record an instrument and play it backwards. At one point I realized that backwards sounding things could be played forwards and then reversed. So I tried speaking a word, reversing it, then record my attempt to reproduce the backwards sound with my mouth. After that, I would reverse my backwards attempt and see how close I could get to the original word. If I did it well, I sounded either like I had a speech problem or I was British, depending on kind you want to be to a Liverpool accent.

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This post is going to focus on the subject of latency in the digital medium, mainly adjusting the audio buffer to achieve the results needed.

One thing that people who are new to the realm of recording on a computer will notice is that there is a lag between what goes into the computer and what comes out. This is due to the nature of how computers work. Computers are number crunchers. When audio goes into the computer it turns the audio into a string of digital information, ones and zeros. In order to play back the audio recorded, it has to convert those ones and zeros back into audio information and then present that information to you via the sound card. All of this takes time. That time is called latency.

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