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by natdempk 1718 days ago
How can you find out where the peaks and valleys in your hearing are? I've wanted to get basically an EQ curve for my own ear hearing issues if possible as I'm sure I have some minor hearing loss, but wasn't sure how to do that. Any tips?
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kohlerm 1718 days ago
https://sourceforge.net/projects/peace-equalizer-apo-extensi... has a feature to set the eq based on your ability to hear certain frequencies
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mh- 1718 days ago
You can go to an audiologist that can produce this for you, if it's worth it to you
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h2odragon 1718 days ago
listen to a frequency generator while twiddling its dial. I dunno what would be the easiest tool to do that with right now, i'd start in audacity or some "audio programming toolkit".
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natdempk 1718 days ago
Yes, I know enough to know I can sweep a sine wave, but I also know enough to know it’s more complicated than that. There are various curves that affect the perception of sound volume at different frequencies, like the response of the headphones, the varying response curve of frequency perception at different volumes, the inherent differing volume response curve in your brain/ears that is the basis for stuff like LUFS. I was wondering if there is a correct way to do this that corrects for all these different effects, or something professional you can do or pay for to get this measured correctly.
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h2odragon 1718 days ago
AFAIK "professional/medical" tests like 8 bands and may have put a decibel meter to their equipment this month. or not.

some professional audio engineers have some special recordings they listen to on everything and use a faith based or at least difficult to quantify internal process to come up with the "right" sound. I'm more in that end of the spectrum.

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natdempk 1718 days ago
Ah okay, I'm surprised there isn't something more precise and scientific out there. Interesting to know that the theoretical gold standard I would really want might not even exist.

Edit: I stand corrected, as the poster below mention (I can't reply), I'd want an audiogram from a professional. Thanks!

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mh- 1718 days ago
You want an Audiogram from a professional. There are definitely medical facilities that can do this to a sufficient degree of accuracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogram

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