Changing voice for thoughts/flashbacks

[Koujiki]

Hey everyone!
I would like to know which effects in Audacity i need to use if i want my voice to sound like in a Flashback or when someone's thinking.
I can't really explain it that well but you probably all know how they change it in movies so it sounds a bit dreamy and you will instantly know someone's thinking.
I tried 'Wahwah' and it was ..well kind of what i was looking for. SOmething like wahwah without the spacy noises and the left-right switching.

It's really hard to explain but i hope someone knows what i mean.
Thanks in advance.

[steve]

Have a play with reverb.
Sometimes the effect is the reverse, where the "flashback" voice is close up with no effects, but all of the background sounds go swooshy.

[kozikowski]

There must be hundreds of different effects for this. The generic task is to make the flashback voice different. That's it. It's not like a far away voice which has some pretty specific characteristics. You can't actually mic a flash-back, so there are no standards. A common one is run the equalizer and drop the bass parts -- a cousin to the telephone effect.

I'm determined to mention that this is sometimes not a sound effect. I've seen it done with a closeup of the actor's face and his lips aren't moving. No effects at all. Done right that can be very eerie as you can't tell for a second what's happening.

It can also be falling down funny when the actor is clearly having an argument with himself.

Koz