Reverse Reverb
This effect is hard to explain in plain English, so here are a few examples of it being used:
Panic at The Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies 00:17
Britney Spears – Shattered Glass 00:28
Britney Spears – Circus 1:11
Kanye West – Say You Will 00:04
Now I’ll try to explain.
Right before the vocal or audio plays, an increasing volume ghost like intro leads up to it.
Click here for an audio example.
Now how to do it:
(These directions will directly apply for use in Logic Pro 8, but will work in any other DAW as well.)
1. You have your audio clip on track 1, let’s have it play on bar 4.
2. Duplicate track 1, so you have track 1 and 2 exactly the same.
3. Now on track two, insert via the channel strip, space designer II. Double click on the insert in the channel strip if it didn’t open the sound designer settings interface. Click on “reverse”.
4. Close the space designer settings window.
5. Hit play, track 1 and 2 are the same, and after a second youll hear the track 2’s ghost intro effect kick in, but late…
6. Now resize the region on track 2 to only about a beats length, then grab the region on track two and move to the left, until that ghost intro kicks in exactly right before track 1’s normal audio plays. So your track 2 will play the resized clip, then the reverse reverb (ghost intro) then track 1 plays the (full) clip.
7. Now bounce the project. Add to audio bin, or wherever you can go back and find it.
8. Now create track 3, add new audio file just created in step 7.
9. Now double click on the region on track 3 to open up the sample editor.
10. Scrub to find where the small resized clip is in the beginning, select it and delete it.
11. Now you have and only hear the ghost intro added to the original audio clip!
Let me know what you think in the comments! Or of you have any questions drop me an email!
Josh