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Test your ultra-high hearing (pg. 3)
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| kitphillips |
| It does have an effect on how you design sounds though. I know a lot of guitarists who just dime the treble because they can't hear . It sounds really bad to everyone who doesn't suffer hearing loss though, sort of like nails on a chalkboard. |
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| JEO |
Sounds kind of depressing not hearing past 13k :/ is there really not any way of fighting the degradation that comes by age? Does it really come by age or all the noise you hear during those years that makes it worse? Hah. A guy will come and tell it's the sum of all the factors I suppose.
And I heard the first two. Panic. I hope it is my computer speaker that doesn't go that high? :wtf:
Thank god it just wasn't loud enough. I still heard the one playing at 12 seconds. |
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| nortek |
- dont go to clubs (without plugs).
- mix at lower levels.
- throw your iPod away.
- dont drive with your window open.
might save your ears some more years.
i have some problems with my left ear and im sure it has to do with driving with the window open. i also have "unflat" hearing, some freqs rings and others are away + occasional tinnitus (at night). i bet that comes from when i was on Love Parade in 2003 + Sony MDR-V700 DJ headphones (damn those). im gonna go to a doc soon though to test it and maybe flush my ears to see if it helps. |
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| JEO |
| quote: | Originally posted by nortek
i have some problems with my left ear and im sure it has to do with driving with the window open. |
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How do you usually clean your ears? Q-tips? I use them. Mostly I just try to wash them really good in the shower. But that candle thing they do in the doctor could do some good too. If I've understood correctly, they put this tube in your ear and warm the top of it. The pressure makes the wax come out or something? |
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| nortek |
| i have no idea. i try to use q-tip as little as possible as warnings say it will shove some of it further in but im using it. i rather try to wash it out in the shower by using vacuum-technique with my finger. |
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| JEO |
| Vacuum-technique? Sounds complex. |
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| kitphillips |
Wow. A thread about earwax.
You dance music types are so glamorous. |
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| Pjotr G |
| Equipment used to perform this test can skew the outcome. The higher frequencies are often not playable on systems. They can still output (aliasing) side-effects of the tone though, triggering the test subject to 'hear' the high tones (but actually hearing its artifacts). |
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| Shade |
| I hear them all at age 22 (well, two days away from it anyway). I had this sort of test as well as a general hearing test recently as I started fearing I had damaged my ears, so the results aren't incredibly surprising to me. |
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| meriter |
| I can hear up to 19khz but my monitors only project up to 20khz, so I don't know. Once I move out of the city and don't hear shrieking automobile breaks every day I might be able to hear 20khz again. I'm 27. |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by Pjotr G
Equipment used to perform this test can skew the outcome. The higher frequencies are often not playable on systems. They can still output (aliasing) side-effects of the tone though, triggering the test subject to 'hear' the high tones (but actually hearing its artifacts). |
Yeah... When I said I could hear up to whatever I said, I think maybe I was actually hearing aliasing or something, since I couldn't hear every tone, it was more like I was hearing some sort of resonance of certain tones, or subharmonics or something... I thought it was unlikely I'd be able to hear that high after a couple of years or thrashing my ears:(
Oh also, in this partcular test, I could just hear like washes of noise after 8 seconds... Don't know if that was an adaptive dither at a lower freq kicking in, or an artifact from my equipment, but I can't make out an actual tone, more like a noise sweep. |
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| Darkarbiter |
| I can most definitely hear 1-5, and 7... but not 6... are you sure 6 is there? |
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