Subject: Re: The "backwards" speech & other effects From: archer@sgi.com (Archer Sully) Date: 1990-04-29, 17:01 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <79825@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> geiser@heron.cis.ohio-state.edu (paul d geiser) writes: > >In article <9280002@hp-ptp.HP.COM> you write: >> >> >> >> My theory for the "backwards" speech is the actors spoke their lines >> >> backwards pronouncing the sound of each word backwards. Then when >> >> editing, they reversed it. You got the sound of backwards speech but >> >> could understand what they said. >> >> > >I agree very much with John C.'s theory with a minor difference. And I have > >read about instances of people doing this before. > >The actors speak their lines like normal. Then these lines are played > >backwards and the actors listen to them trying to discern patterns and then > >they speak these phonetic patterns and they are recorded. Finally > >these patterns are reversed giving a backwards sounding effect but the sounds > >sound like words so we recognize them. > >I think David Lynch would opt for this more brute force method rather than > >using a digitizer of any sort. There's an even easier way to do this, using guitar effects. In fact, there is a box made by that reverses attacks, and strangely enough if you plug a microphone through it you end up sounding just like the people in the dream sequence. Easy and cheap! -- Archer Sully | I'm 27 years old. That's 54 in Nerd Years (archer@esd.sgi.com) | -- Keith Rienzi