I know it was a joke, but to be clear (since there's already been quite a bit of confusion on this issue) inverting phase and reversing direction are two completely different things. If some are running the test and reversing the track instead of inverting the phase, that would definitely result in non-silence!!! 8^) > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Levon [SMTP:mikelevon@...] > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:32 PM > To: f-erenc szabo; logic users list > Subject: [LUG] Re: Phase Test (was: BOUNCING - a question) > > From: Mike Levon <mikelevon@...> > > >f-erenc wrote: > >If you invert the phase of one audio signal and add > >it to another, and they TOTALLY cancel each other > >out, then they are identical in literally every single way. > > >That includes: > >1) frequency spectra > > <snip> > > >10) lyrics > > Hey, hold on there, f-erenc - won't they be in mirror form, backward? > *My* lyrics sound different in that form, and saying them at the same > time the right way round just results in a jumble . . . :-)