Play audio backwards

Reverse a recording sample-for-sample — hear hidden phrasing, check a mix tail, or just hear what backwards sounds like.

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The job

Reversing audio is the classic studio trick — reversed cymbals, hidden speech checks, effect tails. A true reversal flips the waveform end-for-end; the length never changes.

Reverse

Drop the file, hit reverse, download the WAV. Every channel is flipped frame-by-frame — a 30-second stereo clip stays 30 seconds and stereo.

Reversed audio keeps its pitch contour inverted too — rising melodies fall.
Reverse twice and you get the original back exactly.

Worked example

A 4-second snare hit reversed becomes a sucking swell — the classic pre-hit riser that producers layer before a downbeat.

Where it stops

Whole-file reversal only — no reversing a selection. Decodes what the browser supports: input up to 200 MB that decodes within a 256 MB PCM budget (about 12 min stereo at 44.1 kHz), exported as 16-bit WAV. It is a true flip, not a simulated reverse-reverb effect.