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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 [[Power Echoes]] demonstrates.
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== [[Music]] ==
* This trope can be frequently found in [[Psychedelic Rock]] or any genre influenced by [[Psychedelic Rock]].
** Specific example: many of the vocals on ''[[The Beatles (band)|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.
* [[The Verve]]'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 [[This Mortal Coil]], [[Dead Can Dance]] and [[Cocteau Twins]], lived and breathed this trope.
* Yes' "Leave It" intro - a typical [[The Eighties|1980s]] reverb-saturated production.
* Perry Farrell, the lead singer of [[
* The heavily-echoed and processed vocals on [[Joy Division]]'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 [[Gratuitous Panning]].
* [[Stan Freberg]]'s version of "Heartbreak Hotel" parodies excessive echo.
* The album version of "Miami 2015 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" by [[Billy Joel]] has a very fake and shallow-sounding reverb effect applied to the whole thing.
* One of the main complaints against the US releases of [[The Beatles]] albums between 1962-1966 was that Capitol added excessive reverb and echo to the original tracks.
* 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 ''[[Mind Screw|exact same volume as the main vocal line]]''.
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* [[Phil Collins]], 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.
* [[My Morning Jacket]] 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 [[Pink Floyd]] sounds like it was recorded in an empty stadium. {{spoiler|It was.}}
* Lichens perform music that is, for the most part, entirely made up of vocals and guitar run through multiple delay units.
* [[Radiohead]]'s album ''OK Computer'' qualifies.
* Echoes are part of the secret behind [[Phil Spector]]'s famed "Wall of Sound" [[Signature Style]] 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
* British, synth-heavy duo ''Hurts'' have a lot of this.
* [[Hair Metal]], especially the drum sound, was all about this.
* On the remastered and reissued version of [[Electric Light Orchestra]]'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 [[Led Zeppelin]]'s [[No Title|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.
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* The original version of ''Night of the Stormrider'' by [[Iced Earth]] had a huge amount of reverb, even on the vocals. Much of this was removed in the remaster.
* Chiodos' third album "Illuminaudio" has this in spades, particularly on the intro, "Caves", "Love is a Cat from Hell" and "Stratovolcano Mouth".
* For their 2006 album ''Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell'', [[Killing Joke]] chose to record in a basement studio in Prague, using 70's era equipment. It shows.
* Most of [[Everything Else]]'s first album.
* "What Do You Want" by Jerrod Niemann has a heavily echoing kick drum throughout.
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