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Any other half deaf DJs?

Since birth i have only ever been able to hear about of my left ear. The 'Cochlea' in my right ear is fuckzored. Handed down by my mother who got it from her mother .. blah blah blah.

I'm not phased by it, If anything its great cause i can sleep on my good ear and sleep like a log even if i leave my desktop running which has 3 LED fans inside and sounds similar to a Boeing 737 taking off..

Anyways, My question is - Does anyone else have a similar problem? And do you have trouble/any special way you monitor tracks?

I obviously dont use split cue, so most of my mixing is technically done in headphones and by luck. I try to put my headphones on halfway so i can hear both the monitor and the headphones and its not impossible.. But it is tricky. My headphones are Pioneer HDJ1000's so there very big (Might order in some hd25s soon)

Discuss..

You can get one of those custom dildo/lollipop/candystick headphones

haha nah, my hdj1000's actually do the job pretty good. I just busted out a mix then (decided to adjust the speakers head height for a change) and that adjustment alongside my headphones being so damn comfortable and good helped the mix alot.

My question was more-so if i was the only one whose got one ear to DJ with. Technically speaking i should be getting deafer from being around sound so much but it hasnt affected me whatsoever (test have proven i have 'abnormally good hearing'. Although soon i will invest in some good quality ear plugs just incase..

I'm also a gamer so i have kinda 'trained' my ears to hear sound and the directions there coming from. I brought myself some 5.1 sorround speakers (everyone else gave me a 'wtf' face) but its good for me if you know what i mean

well i have hyper-acusis. it is a hyper sensitivity to loud noise. i cant set foot in a club without earplugs. fire bells and any loud noise is very painfull.

it started to become apparent when i started going clubbing. i remember going to clubs without hearing protection and my ears used to ring a lot - which i thought was normal. eventually i started wearing earplugs and now i doubt i would still have hearing after going to a club a whole night without protection.

my mother also passed her sensitive hearing down to me, but she was never subjected to the sound levels modern clubs can produce.

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Originally posted by richg101 well i have hyper-acusis. it is a hyper sensitivity to loud noise. i cant set foot in a club without earplugs. fire bells and any loud noise is very painfull. it started to become apparent when i started going clubbing. i remember going to clubs without hearing protection and my ears used to ring a lot - which i thought was normal. eventually i started wearing earplugs and now i doubt i would still have hearing after going to a club a whole night without protection. my mother also passed her sensitive hearing down to me, but she was never subjected to the sound levels modern clubs can produce.

Good to know what I have. Bleh..

My right ear clicks every time i flex some kind of muscle inside of it. It does not happen when i try to move the outer ear. I have cleaned out all the wax i could, but no help. Also, same clicks are heard when i clap my hands in front of the ear. This may sound strange to most of you. I wonder if anyone else experienced something similar. Oh, and my mother experiences same thing in her right ear. I hope its not a precursor to something more serious.

Fl@k - you need a mixer that has a headphone crossfader. I mix on a DJM-707, and I do a partial split cue, with the headphone crossfader between 60~75%, deck B. It makes it much more clear and sharp.

I dont have any hearing issues, although its more relaxing and enjoyable because I dont need to blast the phones in a standard split cue fashion (typical in a club or house party situation).

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Originally posted by adx Fl@k - you need a mixer that has a headphone crossfader. I mix on a DJM-707, and I do a partial split cue, with the headphone crossfader between 60~75%, deck B. It makes it much more clear and sharp.

Sounds good, I'm still waiting for the day where i can afford such a mixer but its coming.. Oh its coming.

antronx - I would get that checked out man.

Richg - Id never heard of this before you mentioned it, Does it affect you much in general? with all sorts of alarms etc going off all the time in life.

My hearing is strange too.

I think it comes from DJing too much. Basically if someone is speaking to me and there is a background noise I have trouble focusing 100% on what they are saying to me because I am also concentrating on the background noise. Makes Mrs. Nem very angry but what the hell can I do.

Probably comes from spliting and concentrating on different sounds sources is my guess. After 20 odd years the brain is just to used to that.

I think my hearing is also a little damaged from lound noise but it comes with the territory especially for older DJs pre earplug era.

Cheers
Nem

no you can avoid hurting your ears with musician ear plugs

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Originally posted by zoidborglor no you can avoid hurting your ears with musician ear plugs

I hope you weren't talking to me because in my very first post i already said im deaf in one ear by nature.

However i do plan to pickup a pair of musician ear plugs now that gigs are starting to catch on and im not interested in losing the only ear i have left.

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 I think it comes from DJing too much. Basically if someone is speaking to me and there is a background noise I have trouble focusing 100% on what they are saying to me because I am also concentrating on the background noise. Makes Mrs. Nem very angry but what the hell can I do. Nem

I've always thought I was the only with this problem. My GF use to be so annoyed of me everytime it happens. Its gotten so bad to the point that listening to non EDM tracks with vocals, I really don't hear the lyrics, just the music. With movies, I need subtitles on cause half the time I hear background noise versus the lines.

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 My hearing is strange too. I think it comes from DJing too much. Basically if someone is speaking to me and there is a background noise I have trouble focusing 100% on what they are saying to me because I am also concentrating on the background noise. Makes Mrs. Nem very angry but what the hell can I do. Probably comes from spliting and concentrating on different sounds sources is my guess. After 20 odd years the brain is just to used to that. I think my hearing is also a little damaged from lound noise but it comes with the territory especially for older DJs pre earplug era. Cheers Nem

That's very interesting. I've been having to ask people to repeat what they say.

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Originally posted by antronx My right ear clicks every time i flex some kind of muscle inside of it. It does not happen when i try to move the outer ear. I have cleaned out all the wax i could, but no help. Also, same clicks are heard when i clap my hands in front of the ear. This may sound strange to most of you. I wonder if anyone else experienced something similar. Oh, and my mother experiences same thing in her right ear. I hope its not a precursor to something more serious.

i think its normal. i can do a "click" inside my ear when I want to (just sort of flex my inner ear muscle )i think its just a result of some tissue moving around.. no problems with my hearing.. yet..

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Originally posted by Fl@k Monkey Sounds good, I'm still waiting for the day where i can afford such a mixer but its coming.. Oh its coming.

My Numark DXM06 has that, and its fairly cheap, although its only 2 channel - �170 (around $320), probably cheaper in america.

Use the cue/master knob for the headphones...this is on some even very cheap mixers. My first mixer was a gemini that I bought for $40 (retailed for $100), and it had it.

One of my roommates never had one ear out of the headphones...he always mixed this way. He had hearing in both ears, but that doesn't matter when you're djing like that.

EDIT: This is not to say that all mixers have it, because that's not the case. You have to look for it, but it is on most, and price has nothing to do with it.

I have a -50db hearing loss in one of my ears so it's pretty much deaf unless I crank the volume in my headphones to ridiculous levels. Putting the headphones on halfway over my good ear like you mentioned does work for me.

I recently got a hearing aid that has helped immensely but as expected, there's a slight delay in processing the sound so I have to retrain my hearing all over again.

I'm 40% deaf in my left ear due to too many years of going out when earplugs were a non existant option . It doesnt really have anny effect on my beatmatching ( i realy need to watch my hi's, as i can lose them at times, but this is where the hi lo pass is a very good friend esp for a tribaly track per say). The biggest problem it causes for me, is making the mastering process quite a pain in the ass when producing. It's all a little longer than it has to be, but when comes time to eq all the highs it gets really hard(once again they sometimes bleed away). I'm getting a few tip sessions from someone who has the same problem as me, and if it can even save me 25%(at least) that i spend making sure the levels are good I will be the happiest not listening to hi hats for 5 hours straight guy on earth.

almost there! i have hearing loss with constant buzzing in my right ear thanks to spinning and my ignorrance!

i now use those musician earplugs for the last couple years they work good

protect your ears!!!!

the hearing in my left ear isn't as good as my right, down to years of violin playing...wouldn't have thought it made a difference but as your left ear is literally right on top of the f-hole and the bridge, it gets the brunt of it.

to make matters worse, i'm used to cueing music with my left ear as well.

it's not too bad though, but hopefully it won't get worse.

i'll second the odd symptom of hearing noise over speech...i have a very hard time picking out lyrics in songs...all i hear is the melodic pitch.

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Originally posted by stan229 You can get one of those custom dildo/lollipop/candystick headphones

guy has a fuckzored cochlea, so, you say he should get a dildo? come on dude, have some sensitivity.

Slight tinitus, I assume it will get worse.

My problem is I love loud music, I am addicted to it, Ig uess it's like smoking, only it won't kill me.

I know I am harming my ears, but I love loud music. Summet about rewinding your fav track just befor the bass kicks in and cranking it suiper loud and feeling the energy rush in. I love it.

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Originally posted by Tsukai I've always thought I was the only with this problem. My GF use to be so annoyed of me everytime it happens. Its gotten so bad to the point that listening to non EDM tracks with vocals, I really don't hear the lyrics, just the music. With movies, I need subtitles on cause half the time I hear background noise versus the lines.

We have digital TV here that comes with subtitles for all programs, and I use them 100% of the time.

Everyone else cracks the shits (subtitles are distracting apparently) and tells me they can pick out the voices fine; I always figured it was to do with me being lazy, not that my ears are trained that way through DJing...

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Originally posted by b i n k u n i'll second the odd symptom of hearing noise over speech...i have a very hard time picking out lyrics in songs...all i hear is the melodic pitch.

Me too.

After hearing a song only once or twice I could play the vocal part on a keyboard...I know all the rhythms and pitches by then. However, I still would have no clue what the song is talking about until maybe my 100th listen.

Thats kind of cool

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