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And stay away from MP3. MP3 creates sound damage every time you make one and you can't stop it. Use WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit.

Koz

I hate that I recorded 3 hours of audio that sound like that. It's a new-user mistake to record hours and hours of work and only then stop to analyze how it's going. You can record short pieces like that forum test and see how it sounds before you go all in. Describe your studio and microphone. Som...

I have tried everything I can find to fix it In case I misunderstood the question, we can't fix sound echoes in software no matter where they came from. It's one of the four guaranteed ways to kill your show. You have to record your voice clear and clean for all the rest of the tools to work. Koz

New forum postings have to wait for a forum elf to OK them. They don't just automatically appear. We get too many bad posts to just let them all in. Your sample is too metallic and precise to be room echo, so the computer is probably doing something wrong. This kind of damage is right down Voicemeet...

Audacity has tools and services for audiobook production, but you have to come up with a good, clean recording first. You can announce a short test and post it on the forum. We can see if we recognize the damage and suggest solutions. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html R...

Why are you using Voicemeeter Banana? Clean voice recording is usually done in a quiet, echo-free room with a well-behaved computer and a nice microphone—or stand-alone sound recorder. When you re-post, use a lot of words. We need to build your studio in our heads to sort what you're doing. "I'...

If you have a lot of time on your hands, you might try notches at odd and even harmonics of the base tone. That's where most of the trash is going to live. You might also try copy-pasting several trashes together into a longer sample and Analyze > Plot Spectrum. Use a very high analysis number and s...

Is there a way to perfectly remove the 1500Hz wave with no ringing without making the Q very low, which could remove wanted speech? No. You're fighting basic electronics. Pure silence is well-behaved and understood and pure sine waves are, too. However, starting a sine wave isn't. Bad Graphic: sine...

Any suggestions?

Since Audacity plays MP3s, it's not an MP3. You can find out what it really is...

https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfoOnline

Ko

I play the track and then sing while it's playing... Makes sense?

No it doesn't. How are you playing the track? If you're trying to do both of those jobs in Audacity, you can get track doubling which will boost the track volume and can give you the overload sound damage you have.

Koz