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Hey, I have a voice recording and I want to make it sound like it was recording in a tunnel or a cave or something similar. I used the echo function but it just makes it sound like a fake echo, even when playing around with the settings.

Is there anything I can do to make this work?

Thanks.

Many people use GVerb included in Audacity 1.3. If you're on a Mac, you also get AUMatrixReverb.

The reason everybody's effect always sounds like trash is you can't actually, really make this effect, and for a lot of the same reasons that you can't filter an echo out of a performance. If you stand in your bathroom and clap once, you will get an infinite number of echoes at an infinite number of phase relationships and all dying out an an infinite rate.

I don't care how good you are at C++++, you can't program that. So most people program the first bunch of significant reflections and hope nobody notices.

Everybody notices.

Audacity 1.2 has an effect that produces one echo. I think it was a proof of concept tool. It succeeded in producing one controllable echo, but it failed in that I don't know anyone who would want that. The real musical world doesn't work like that.

Search the forum for "gverb" and you may get hits on other plugins people have used. There's Freeverb...others.

Koz