Is there something (simple, reasonably priced, and clean sounding) on the market that will produce these backward sounds (like Robert Fripp, or Jimi Hendrix reverse guitar solos)?
I don’t know what Fripp used other than the frippertronics tape stuff, but he may have used the Electro Harmonix 16 second delay (very expensive now, though there was a reissue which is also no longer available…). It actually played back up to 16 seconds of delayed music backwards. The 1980s half rack Boss RPS-10 digital delay was popular for reverse sounds. The Boomerang looper device can also do reverse, it can record minutes of playing and reverse it. There are now quite a few digital delay pedals which can be switched to REVERSE mode while playing, like the EH memory man with Hazarai. The line6 delay is probably the most common, I heard Phil Brown do some Jimi with one of those and it sounded fabulous. The Line-6 delay modeler has both a true reverse delay (better for recording than live) and a volume swell with echo effect both of which do a pretty good job. It does take a lot of practice to get the reverse delays in sync, it’s not easy to get what you want to hear. Unfortunatel
