[78-L] Reversing audio

[Rob Spencer]

Michael Biel wrote:
> We had a session at ARSC in New Orleans which demonstrated that
> reversing recordings digitally must NOT be done.

Dear Mike,

Thank you for passing that information along. It's good to know, because 
it's highly counter-intuitive, or at least it runs counter to my intuition.

I should mention, however, that my intention in this case was merely to 
arrive at a complete digital copy of this particular track for personal, 
non-critical listening. Playing it in reverse and then reversing that 
digitally allowed me to reclaim the portion of the song that was missed 
because of the skip. I was then able to splice this section 
transparently into the first, unreversed transfer.

As I say, thanks for smartening me up here, and I will certainly never 
use this technique except for in such "forensic" situations as the 
above. Many times my wife will pull out one of her old LPs and ask me to 
transfer it for in-car listening, and she doesn't know from square waves!


Rob Spencer