Hello, I’m new here. I’m a total noob with audacity so please bear with me.
I have a clip that is 6 seconds long. I have reversed it but need to slow it down 800 times. How do I do this?
The easiest way is to use the “Nyquist Prompt” effect.
- Select the 6 second track
- Effect menu > Nyquist Prompt
- Enter the following code:
(force-srate (* 800 *sound-srate*) s)
- Click the OK button and wait a couple of minutes for it to complete.
Note that “slowing it down” 800 times will make the pitch so low that it will probably be inaudible.
Oops! I realized it was 800% not 800 times.
You see, I heard this story concerning a hidden track from a a Weird Al album called Bite Me. Which is a bunch a screaming and stuff done by Al and his band (Lampooning Nirvana’s hidden track ‘Endless Nameless’). However…Well I’ll let this snippet from the Weird Al Wiki explain:
The six-second snippet is also the base of a backmasked message (somewhat). When the song is reversed and slowed down 800%, there is a hidden song inserted. The lyrics are faint but clearly audible at 17 seconds (of the slowed down version) the lyrics are:
When we cannot ask the forest for a moment’s shade
Though every ray of sun cuts like a razorblade
And we cannot ask the river for water
If she has none!
This was discovered in 2004, and appear to be from David Hallyday’s “Tears of the Earth.”
Now, I want to do the reverse/slow-down treatment and see if it’s true, then present my finding on YouTube.
Reverse effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/reverse.html
Change Speed effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/change_speed.html