History Main / EchoingAcoustics

* Music/DavidBowie's lead vocals on the track "Heroes" were recorded in a large hall, meant to record full orchestras; co-producer/engineer Tony Visconti set up three different microphones at various distances away from Bowie, gated to open up when he sang louder as the song progressed, picking up more and more of the room's reverb.

* Music/OneohtrixPointNever's album ''Chuck Person's Eccojam's Vol. 1'' as Chuck Person combined this with GratuitousPanning; almost every track was a slowed-down, looped sample with echo going back and forth from the left ear to the right ear. This album, as well as the album ''Holograms'' by 骨架的[[note]]Skeleton in Chinese[[/note]], which also indulged in this trope (though without the panning), heavily influenced the {{Vaporwave}} genre, as many tracks will either use echo, reverb, or both.

** The Music/CrowdedHouse album ''Together Alone'' had the same producer and also used this trope heavily (although less psychedelically).

* SonicYouth's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnOi9Vem4sc Diamond Sea]]".

* The original version of ''Night of the Stormrider'' by Music/IcedEarth had a huge amount of reverb, even on the vocals. Much of this was removed in the remaster.

* Music/TheMoodyBlues demonstrate this trope beautifully in the vocals of the song "The Sunset/Twilight Time" from ''Days of Future Passed''--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqmlCXNeCc&feature=related. It appears throughout the whole song, though the best part starts at 3:45.

* Chiodos' third album "Illuminaudio" has this in spades, particularly on the intro, "Caves", "Love is a Cat from Hell" and "Stratovolcano Mouth".

* "What Do You Want" by Jerrod Niemann has a heavily echoing kick drum throughout.

* Mentioned in one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip: Peter is buying a CD, and asks a salesman what he thinks of it. The salesman starts ripping into the CD, about the lame lyrics, ripped-off songs, and how almost half the songs have a very annoying reverb effect. "[[DistractedByTheSexy Still, that is one hot naked chick on the cover]]".

--> --The [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Eddie_and_the_Cruisers_II__Eddie_Lives__1989.aspx Agony Booth recap]] of ''Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!''

Echo and reverb - two sides of the same coin. Where the echo refers to the reflection of a sound that's heard after the original sound is played, reverberation is a mass of echoes that makes the sound persist in a certain space after the original sound is played, decaying very slowly.

Echoes and reverb can be used to give something a "massive", imposing sound, as PowerEchoes demonstrates. EchoingAcoustics refers to the use of lots of (often electronic) echoes and reverb in music. [[TropesAreNotBad This isn't that bad]] - for every album where one can't make out the lyrics because they're buried in layers upon layers of reverberation, there are albums where this trope is deployed to create something that sounds [[RuleOfCool damn cool]].

** Specific example: many of the vocals on ''[[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' sound like they were recorded in a cathedral.
* Rock And Roll used a lot of echo fx to give the songs a bit more punch, from a single 'snap echo' to a whole bunch of echos, all produced by tape loops with multiple playback heads one after another.
* TheVerve's early albums ''Verve'' and ''A Storm in Heaven'' used this trope heavily for psychedelic effect.

* {{Spiritualized}}'s material between ''Lazer Guided Melodies'' and ''Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space'' uses this a lot.
* The dream pop genre, represented by ThisMortalCoil, DeadCanDance and CocteauTwins, lived and breathed this trope.
* {{Yes}}' "Leave It" intro - a typical [[TheEighties 1980s]] reverb-saturated production.
* Perry Farrell, the lead singer of JanesAddiction, can't resist adding PowerEchoes to his voice. Go ahead, name a single JA song without any reverb or echo on his voice. Also on ''Nothing's Shocking'', since it was made in [[TheEighties 1988]], producer Dave Jerden threw a ton of gated reverb over the drums. Despite how these sentences sound, [[TropesAreNotBad that's actually not a bad thing since it makes the drums sound punchier and Farrell way larger-than-life]].
* The heavily-echoed and processed vocals on JoyDivision's "She's Lost Control", meant to amplify the song's bleak atmosphere. Producer Martin Hannett was particularly known for this kind of production.
* {{Cream}}'s "Mother's Lament", combined with GratuitousPanning.
* StanFreberg's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az2rHv57zq4 version of "Heartbreak Hotel"]] parodies excessive echo.
* The album version of "Miami 2015 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" by BillyJoel has a very fake and shallow-sounding reverb effect applied to the whole thing.
* One of the main complaints against the US releases of Music/TheBeatles albums between 1962-1966 was that Capitol added excessive reverb and echo to the original tracks.
* A [[MindScrew truly bizarre example]], with an element of {{subversion}}: {{Throbbing Gristle}}'s "Convincing People" and "Spirits Flying" both use extremely long echo effects on Genesis P-Orridge's voice, set to the [[TalkingToYourself exact same volume as the main vocal line]].
* JethroTull is really good at this, particularly in such songs as "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxiHgm5UEsA Pibroch(Cap In Hand)]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVmA6XdrnNA No Lullaby]]", and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuM-yatN0pI Dark Ages]]".

* PhilCollins, or more specifically, Phil Collins' snare drum, is known for embodying this trope. He popularised what's known as "gated reverb", after all.
** Gated reverb being a combination of reverb and a noise gate (muting sounds that are under a certain volume). Essentially a unnatural, choked sound.
* MyMorningJacket is known for drenching Jim James' vocals in reverb. They once lampshaded this in a video promoting the album ''Z'' where his ''speaking'' voice was given a lot of reverb too.
* The guitar intro to "Sorrow" by PinkFloyd sounds like it was recorded in an empty stadium. [[spoiler: It was.]]

* {{Radiohead}}'s album ''OK Computer'' qualifies.
* Echoes are part of the secret behind PhilSpector's famed "Wall of Sound" SignatureStyle of production. To elaborate, the Wall of Sound worked by having six or seven guitarists play the lead guitar part in unison, four or five bassists play the bass line in unison, a chamber ensemble of singers sing the backup, and so on -- essentially creating rock orchestras -- and recording the whole thing in an echo chamber. The result was a HUGE, REVERBERATING sound that fast became Spector’s trademark. A great example of the Wall of Sound in action is "River Deep, Mountain High" by Tina Turner, largely considered to be his, and Turner’s, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome crowning achievement.]]
* British, synth-heavy duo ''Hurts'' have a lot of this.

* On the remastered and reissued version of ElectricLightOrchestra's ''A New World Record'' is an outtake that had remained unfinished for years called "Surrender". The finished version ''was'' this trope.
* Many songs on Music/LedZeppelin's [[NoTitle fourth album]] have this, especially the (quite frequently sampled) booming drums in "When the Levee Breaks".
** The latter of which was achieved by going into a stairwell at the house where they were recording, setting John Bonham's drums up at the bottom, and putting the microphone two floors above him.
* Music/TheMoodyBlues demonstrate this trope beautifully in the vocals of the song "The Sunset/Twilight Time" from ''Days of Future Passed'' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqmlCXNeCc&feature=related. It appears throughout the whole song, though the best part starts at 3:45.
* Umm, the entire genre of surf music?
* The original version of ''Night of the Stormrider'' by IcedEarth had a huge amount of reverb, even on the vocals. Much of this was removed in the remaster.

* For their 2006 album ''Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell'', KillingJoke chose to record in a basement studio in Prague, using 70's era equipment. It shows.
* Most of EverythingElse's first album.

* BruceSpringsteen, a fan of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound", has been known to deliberately use heavy echo and reverb on many tracks since ''Born To Run'', especially in TheSeventies.

* A rare non-musical example in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXsPvf9zq4 Lou Gehrig's retirement speech]], also known as the 'Luckiest Man' speech

* Mentioned in one FoxTrot strip: Peter is buying a CD, and asks a salesman what he thinks of it. The salesman starts ripping into the CD, about the lame lyrics, ripped-off songs, and how almost half the songs have a very annoying reverb effect. "[[DistractedByTheSexy Still, that is one hot naked chick on the cover]]".
* TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella: [[http://nonadventures.com/cast/ Only she mainly floats and talks with reverb and homey don't play that Galadriel shiznit.]]

* TheVeronica's use this sparingly

->''The reverb on Eddie's mic, by the way, is set at like 7 on the Richter scale. Seriously, there's so much echo it sounds like he's singing in the [[TheLordOfTheRings Dwarf halls of Khazad-dûm]].''

* Echoes are part of the secret behind PhilSpector's famed "Wall of Sound" SignatureStyle of production. To elaborate, the Wall of Sound worked by having six or seven guitarists play the lead guitar part in unison, four or five bassists play the bass line in unison, a chamber ensemble of backup singers sing the backup, and so on -- essentially creating rock orchestras -- and recording the whole thing in an echo chamber. The result was a HUGE, REVERBERATING sound that fast became Spector’s trademark. A great example of the Wall of Sound in action is "River Deep, Mountain High" by Tina Turner, largely considered to be his, and Turner’s, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome crowning achievement.]]

* StanFreberg's version of "Heartbreak Hotel" parodies excessive echo.

->''The reverb on Eddie's mic, by the way, is set at like 7 on the Richter scale. Seriously, there's so much echo it sounds like he's singing in the [[TheLordOfTheRings Dwarf halls of Khazad-dum]].''

* Yes' "Leave It" intro - a typical [[TheEighties 1980s]] reverb-saturated production.
* Perry Farrell, the lead singer of [[JanesAddiction Jane's Addiction]], can't resist adding PowerEchoes to his voice. Go ahead, name a single JA song without any reverb or echo on his voice. Also on ''Nothing's Shocking'', since it was made in [[TheEighties 1988]], producer Dave Jerden threw a ton of gated reverb over the drums. Despite how these sentences sound, [[TropesAreNotBad that's actually not a bad thing since it makes the drums sound punchier and Farrell way larger-than-life]].

* Cream's "Mother's Lament", combined with GratuitousPanning.

* One of the main complaints against the US releases of TheBeatles albums between 1962-1966 was that Capitol added excessive reverb and echo to the original tracks.

** Specific example: many of the vocals on ''[[TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' sound like they were recorded in a cathedral.

* A truly bizarre example, with an element of {{subversion}}: Throbbing Gristle's "Convincing People" and "Spirits Flying" both use extremely long echo effects on Genesis P-Orridge's voice, set to the ''[[MindScrew exact same volume as the main vocal line]]''.

* Echoes are part of the secret behind PhilSpector's famed "Wall of Sound" SignatureStyle of production. To elaborate, the Wall of Sound worked by having six or seven guitarists play the lead guitar part in unison, four or five bassists play the bass line in unison, a chamber ensemble of backup singers sing the backup, and so on -- essentially creating rock orchestras -- and recording the whole thing in an echo chamber. The result was a HUGE, REVERBERATING sound that fast became Spector’s trademark. A great example of the Wall of Sound in action is "River Deep, Mountain High" by TinaTurner, largely considered to be his, and Turner’s, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome crowning achievement.]]

* Echoes are part of the secret behind PhilSpector's famed "Wall of Sound" SignatureStyle of production.

* Many songs on LedZeppelin's [[NoTitle fourth album]] have this, especially the (quite frequently sampled) booming drums in "When the Levee Breaks".

->''The reverb on Eddie's mic, by the way, is set at like 7 on the Richter scale. Seriously, there's so much echo it sounds like he's singing in the Dwarf halls of Khazad-dum.''

* Averted in Howard Shore's music for ''TheLordOfTheRings'' even when they ARE in Khazad-Dum