windows sound recorder. chose Echo on a small test recording. succesful,but now cannot get RID of it. help!Effects are permanent.  You cannot "undo" them.I may have mislead Rob Pomery with my post.I meant I cannot get the
Sound Recorder to record without an echo,not the sample recording.If this is the case I apologise,but still need help.Thanks Ron MillerTry clicking on REVERSE, under Effects, in Sound Recorder.  I believe that cancels the Echo EFFECT.I thought that made it play backwards.I experimented with it before my previous post and, as far as I can tell, Reverse just cancels Add Echo.  I would agree the terminology seems odd but, when I TESTED it, I clearly heard the echo effect after clicking on Add Echo.   And then, clicking on Reverse stopped the echo effect.  Besides, there must be some way to cancel the echo effect and Reverse seems to be the way it's done.Hunh. Odd. I cannot account for the odd behaviour that is being reported above, but this is what is supposed to happen:

ECHO - adds an echo to an uncompressed sound file.  You may then save the file, which now includes the echo effect.
REVERSE - reverses an uncompressed sound file (which you may then save).

Neither effect is PERMANENTLY applied to every sound file then loaded into sound recorder.  I suspect that if the original poster is still hearing an echo, it is being added by other software - possible he has a 3D sound card with an echo effect, and that is switched on.

I would not use sound recorder for this anyway - it is far too simplistic.  Audacity (free - see the software FAQ) is much better.