Need Tips for an "underwater" effect

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For a comical music recording, I need a section of a song to sound like it was being sung underwater... like a warbling, wavering effect.
I've been playing around with the echo/delay effects for hours, but I have not achieved a satisfactory sound yet. I don't want to distort the singing too much so that it is unrecognizeable. Too much echo seems to make it sound like it is in a cave not underwater.
Does anybody have any hints as to how I might get this "underwater" effect?
 
two words........WATERPROOF MIC! :D

What effects module are you using?
Try combining multiple effects for that "watery" sound.
 
i've never tried it, and i'm not at my daw, but you'll definitely need to cut some high frequencies (water is denser than air). i'd try cutting the lowest lows also and see if that helped. maybe throw on a pitch shifter plug modulated by an LFO, or try out a resonant (not too high) lowpass or bandpass filter with LFO... or both. water moves in dense waves, so that sounds appropriate. set the depth to taste. i'm not sure if delay is really necessary, since there may or may not be reflective surfaces underwater (they're definitely in a cave though, as you've simulated for yourself) but whatever sounds right.

good luck,
marcus
 
A fast flange to create a Leslie type effect should do it.
 
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