What is with this annoying infatuation with echo?

A little echo is nice. Trouble is, only about 1 out of a 100 have it adjusted correctly. Seems like the older I get the worse it sounds..........

 

My experience is that if I can hear my echo on the talkback, it's too much on the air. Turn it down till I can't really hear it and it's about right.

 

I haven't thought about it, but thinking about that statement I'd have to agree. It NEVER sounds as bad on talk back as it does over the air.

 

People getting walked on by their own echo make me laugh. Unfortunately, there is more echo than what they can hear though their talkback. I don't think they realize how it really sounds.

 

That's it. If you set it so it sounds good thru the talkback, it's almost always too much.

Another thing is the mic gain. It does NOT need to be wide open all the time. Over modulation is just as bad as too much echo.

 

I know how you feel well not really but I know what you're saying though. Some of the locals here use echo where the other person can not understand what they are saying to who ever they are talking to. I use echo yes but not where its like wait what did I just say.

There is a local here that uses lot of echo to where he think its funny and sounds really awful. I don't see the point on using lot of echo or use it where it repeats what was said. The locals use it on channel 19 to irritate the local/distant drivers that come through the area.

 

When I used a General Lee in the mobile I would set the echo control at 10:00 and the time( reverb) at 7:00 and most the locals were in agreement that it sounded really good, some even said that it enhanced the audio, not that a Lee needs modulation help, if tuned properly the audio is awesome. Echo is one of those things where you either like the sound of it or just totally despise it, to each his own, me personally there is nothing worse then an overmodulated splatterbox with way too much echo, but just a little bit can sound good in some cases.