AdiDgani
Hi,
I’m experiencing issues with the Echo Out effect in VirtualDJ and I’m unable to achieve a clean, professional result for transitions.
What I’m trying to do:
I want a simple Echo Out behavior where I press a pad on one deck, it captures the last spoken word (usually a vocal), creates a clean echo tail, and then the track stops while the echo continues for a short musical duration (around 8 beats). This should only affect the active deck, while I mix in a new track on the other deck.
The problems I’m encountering:
- The Echo Out effect often produces very loud distortion or feedback instead of a clean tail.
- Sometimes the effect is applied to both decks when the crossfader is centered, instead of only the active deck.
- In other cases, the original track keeps playing under the echo instead of stopping, which ruins the transition.
- When I try to use scripting (padfx / effect / wait), I either get a hard cut (the track drops instantly) or an echo that continues while the track still plays.
- I’m unable to get a clean “last word echo out” similar to standard DJ mixer behavior (like Pioneer DJM).
What I tried:
- Using padfx "echo out" with different parameters (e.g. 70%, 1bt)
- Using effect_active "echo" + pause
- Using wait 8bt to auto-stop the effect
- Using stems-based scripts (isolating vocals and applying echo)
- Disabling “mute source” and checking beat sync
None of these gave me a reliable, clean Echo Out transition.
Additional issue:
I would like to downgrade to a previous VirtualDJ version because I suspect this behavior changed in recent builds. However, I couldn’t access a reliable official archive of older builds, and some links seem unavailable or broken.
My questions:
1. What is the correct way to achieve a clean Echo Out transition (last word echo, track stops, echo tail continues naturally)?
2. Is Echo Out supposed to be a deck effect or master effect by default, and how can I force it to apply only to one deck?
3. What are the recommended parameters for Echo Out to avoid distortion?
4. Is there an official way to download and install previous builds of VirtualDJ?
Thank you in advance for your help.
I’m experiencing issues with the Echo Out effect in VirtualDJ and I’m unable to achieve a clean, professional result for transitions.
What I’m trying to do:
I want a simple Echo Out behavior where I press a pad on one deck, it captures the last spoken word (usually a vocal), creates a clean echo tail, and then the track stops while the echo continues for a short musical duration (around 8 beats). This should only affect the active deck, while I mix in a new track on the other deck.
The problems I’m encountering:
- The Echo Out effect often produces very loud distortion or feedback instead of a clean tail.
- Sometimes the effect is applied to both decks when the crossfader is centered, instead of only the active deck.
- In other cases, the original track keeps playing under the echo instead of stopping, which ruins the transition.
- When I try to use scripting (padfx / effect / wait), I either get a hard cut (the track drops instantly) or an echo that continues while the track still plays.
- I’m unable to get a clean “last word echo out” similar to standard DJ mixer behavior (like Pioneer DJM).
What I tried:
- Using padfx "echo out" with different parameters (e.g. 70%, 1bt)
- Using effect_active "echo" + pause
- Using wait 8bt to auto-stop the effect
- Using stems-based scripts (isolating vocals and applying echo)
- Disabling “mute source” and checking beat sync
None of these gave me a reliable, clean Echo Out transition.
Additional issue:
I would like to downgrade to a previous VirtualDJ version because I suspect this behavior changed in recent builds. However, I couldn’t access a reliable official archive of older builds, and some links seem unavailable or broken.
My questions:
1. What is the correct way to achieve a clean Echo Out transition (last word echo, track stops, echo tail continues naturally)?
2. Is Echo Out supposed to be a deck effect or master effect by default, and how can I force it to apply only to one deck?
3. What are the recommended parameters for Echo Out to avoid distortion?
4. Is there an official way to download and install previous builds of VirtualDJ?
Thank you in advance for your help.
geposted 3 hours ago
PhantomDeejay
1. You need to select the correct parameters and activate the effect on correct timing. Also keep in mind that you cannot always get a "clean" result depending on the track itself
2. It's supposed to be a deck effect. Therefore apply it on the deck, not on master
3. Personally I use around 70 to 75% feedback, 1 beat timing, >20% Color and 20% Reverb.
4. The official way to go "way back" is to ask support.
However I would not recommend that.
1) VirtualDJ 2026 brought major updates on effects engine with much better and many more native effects than before.
2) You can get the "old" effects behavior back by using the "Legacy" sound effects list.
3) Personally I would not suggest using "legacy" either. I believe it's more a matter of fine tuning the current effect to your taste and understanding it's limitations and when/how to use it.
As I said, I use it regularly with the settings mentioned above without any issue whatsoever!
2. It's supposed to be a deck effect. Therefore apply it on the deck, not on master
3. Personally I use around 70 to 75% feedback, 1 beat timing, >20% Color and 20% Reverb.
4. The official way to go "way back" is to ask support.
However I would not recommend that.
1) VirtualDJ 2026 brought major updates on effects engine with much better and many more native effects than before.
2) You can get the "old" effects behavior back by using the "Legacy" sound effects list.
3) Personally I would not suggest using "legacy" either. I believe it's more a matter of fine tuning the current effect to your taste and understanding it's limitations and when/how to use it.
As I said, I use it regularly with the settings mentioned above without any issue whatsoever!
geposted 3 hours ago
AdiDgani
PhantomDeejay wrote :
1. You need to select the correct parameters and activate the effect on correct timing. Also keep in mind that you cannot always get a "clean" result depending on the track itself
2. It's supposed to be a deck effect. Therefore apply it on the deck, not on master
3. Personally I use around 70 to 75% feedback, 1 beat timing, >20% Color and 20% Reverb.
4. The official way to go "way back" is to ask support.
However I would not recommend that.
1) VirtualDJ 2026 brought major updates on effects engine with much better and many more native effects than before.
2) You can get the "old" effects behavior back by using the "Legacy" sound effects list.
3) Personally I would not suggest using "legacy" either. I believe it's more a matter of fine tuning the current effect to your taste and understanding it's limitations and when/how to use it.
As I said, I use it regularly with the settings mentioned above without any issue whatsoever!
2. It's supposed to be a deck effect. Therefore apply it on the deck, not on master
3. Personally I use around 70 to 75% feedback, 1 beat timing, >20% Color and 20% Reverb.
4. The official way to go "way back" is to ask support.
However I would not recommend that.
1) VirtualDJ 2026 brought major updates on effects engine with much better and many more native effects than before.
2) You can get the "old" effects behavior back by using the "Legacy" sound effects list.
3) Personally I would not suggest using "legacy" either. I believe it's more a matter of fine tuning the current effect to your taste and understanding it's limitations and when/how to use it.
As I said, I use it regularly with the settings mentioned above without any issue whatsoever!
This is is amazing, the problem is - i want it set this exact way (and sound) on my padfx - what cose should I write in the padfx? it used to be "deck active padfx "echo out" 70% 1bt" and it sounds like crap :/
geposted 2 hours ago
PhantomDeejay
Try padfx 'echo out' 70% 70% 63% 20%
geposted 2 hours ago
AdiDgani
PhantomDeejay wrote :
Try padfx 'echo out' 70% 70% 63% 20%
I think (hope!) I manged to fix it - thanks to you and chat gpt who I've worked 24/7 to teach it what i want. the correct code is:
deck active padfx "echo out" 75% 1bt & wait 64bt & deck active padfx "echo out" off
geposted 2 hours ago