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anyone noticed... Hearingloss while synthesis?
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orgytime
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Posted : May 5, 2010 17:34:08
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i played around with a synth (sawtooth)... pitched it as high as possible up to (20kHz)...
and i noticed i dont hear frequencies over 11kHz with my left ear! with my right ear i hear close to 20kHz...
really bad to know i cant enjoy the full spectrum of nice sounds 
anyone tried similar things? i think they do the same thing, when making hearing tests, right?
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Nectarios
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Posted : May 5, 2010 17:39
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Are you sure its not your left tweeter playing up?
I did hearing tests when I was in Uni and can hear up to 18k. The test involved a sine wave at different frequencies fading in and the time/level at which I picked it up. Obviously the trigger time varied so I could not get a timing of each frequency test, but the actual level at which I picked it up.
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orgytime
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Posted : May 5, 2010 21:34
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yeah im sure , i didnt pan the noise, i plugged my ears seperately, the signal was mono (both speakers aktiv)
right ear ok, left ear NOTHING over 11 kHz.
right, it should be a sinewave... but i think this will not change the result, frequencies are frequencies.
you think this will affect my mixing/mastering skills in the future?
what i also noticed... if my ears hurt because of too loud sounds (disco and other situations...), it only hurts at my right ear (the ear that is ok).
i feel like i just have to protect my right ear of the loud noises... strange.
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Kryten
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Posted : May 6, 2010 12:32
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Really intresting topic...
I always thought that I can hear high freqs pretty good ( I can hear bats or the noises old/bad PSU's make), but I never came to the idea of testing it myself like that.
I know one of my ears is damaged too(little diving accident when I was young)...but idk if that affects my hearing in any way....I will test this when I get home from work and post it here.
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orgytime
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Posted : May 6, 2010 13:37
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orange
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Posted : May 6, 2010 15:31
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TimeTraveller
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Posted : May 6, 2010 16:38
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I too but a sinewave at 18220 hz test was strange though.AT first I was scared like I hear nothing,but than on the second listen with a bit louder volume and more attention I did but it would not be anything to use hehe
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Elad
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Posted : May 6, 2010 17:37
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orgytime
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Posted : May 6, 2010 17:47
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wow nice elad!
with left ear 10kHz is the last tone i can hear.
with right up to 19kHz.
im 24 years old (they say its also age related)
i wonder about your results, also write down your age^^
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Ascension
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Posted : May 6, 2010 17:50
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I'm 25 and the highest one I could hear was 18kHz (on headphones at work). I guess that's good for my age- maybe I should start cutting all freqs above this since I can't hear them anyway?
I heard the 18kHz the first time it played, then I listened again and couldn't hear it, interesting.... http://soundcloud.com/ascensionsound
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TimeTraveller
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Posted : May 6, 2010 17:57
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I'm 34 in 4 weeks.18khz and 19khz goes but hard.. 16khz is loud as hell or the damn sinewave is reminding me a bit of an occasional tinitus from time to time.But long time I haven't had tinitus so good.I think it is ok.
I will make this experiment again on a mind expanding someday.Could be interesting maybe than it is even better..
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Maine Coon
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Posted : May 6, 2010 18:15
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It's true it's age related. I read about this scam a couple of boys ran in the early 20th century. They claimed to be telepathically connected. So, to test them some university professors set up a test. A professor would tell or show something to the first boy - and the other one would get it. Like a card from a deck or a number - simple things like that. The boys won. Then later it was discovered that they carried tiny high-pitched whistles to signal each other - and those grey-bearded professors could not hear sounds that high in frequency.
Part of it is about the mechanics of the ear getting less flexible with age - so sound transmission goes down. Part of it is the receptor loss, which also accumulates with time. But trauma affects both components. You pop your eardrum while diving - that ear's hearing goes down about 10% on average. You blast loud sound in your ears (especially if it's high-pitched) - you kill the receptors prematurely.
So, it is age related but a 20-year-old metal-head can have a hearing of a 70-year-old gardener.
Orgytime, it's interesting that you have it on one side only. Maybe you had an ear infection in the past... |
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Vonoom
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Posted : May 6, 2010 19:37
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Kryten
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Posted : May 6, 2010 20:03
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Just tested it with that site...
left ear: up to 19kHz, but had to turn up the volume on the last one to hear it. At 20kHz I only hear the click when the sample starts and ends..even with very high volume.
right ear: up to 18kHz with no prob, but could hardly hear 19
got music playing in the next room, dunno if that has an influence...
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willsanquil
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Posted : May 6, 2010 21:13
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I'm 25, and I can't hear above 16 on headphones but with my monitors I can hear up to 18 and just barely 19, seems my right ear is a little less sensitive...probably due to lots of shotgun sports from age 10-12 only wearing protection half the time. damn guns.
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