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Big Trouble - hearing loss: pitch!
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 1:18 pm    Post subject: Big Trouble - hearing loss: pitch! Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I'm only 61 and I've been protective of my ears for decades. But I have crap genes in that department. My dad and his mom were hearing aid customers at a relatively early age.

I've had tinnitus for years but it hasn't bothered me much. It sounds like insects softly singing in a field in summer. If one must have tinnitus, I at least have the most pleasant kind.

Upper frequencies have been dropping out at an increased rate lately. When I last listened to Tomita's "Arabesque" from "Snowflakes are Dancing" I couldn't hear the climactic highest high note of the "whistle." It just wasn't there!

Today something even worse happened.

I've been very productive this autumn, creating new music. I had planned to make several new tunes this weekend and began work this (Saturday) morning.

But the melodic line I was trying to use was out of tune. Notes an octave apart sounded a semi-tone off. According to an electronic tuner they shouldn't have been off perceptibly, but they sounded wrong. I blamed the analog synth I was using and turned to a VA synth. Same thing. Uh oh. Same on the Digital. Uh oh.

I tried different headphones, then the speakers. I listened further upstream, in case one of the devices in the chain was causing the problem. Nope. The problem was me.

Hopefully the problem is temporary, or won't always be this bad. If the problem stays, all my future music will be confined to a much smaller spectrum of sounds. If it gets worse... I might be done with music.

The tinnitus comes and goes (it's never completely gone but sometimes it's not very pronounced). And my high pitch sensitivity seems different from day to day. So hopefully this pitch shift won't always be a problem.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Confused

May it better up soon.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Wow...sorry to hear about the hearing issues! I've experienced what you have but it either cleared up or my brain corrected for it. My tinnitus is pretty bad. Started in the right ear and years later is also in the left ear. Very high frequencies are gone for me now.. Oddly enough I can still here some things that nobody else notices....toilet running several rooms away, odd squeak in a car, etc...

Hope your problem clears up...

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

As an update of my hearing woes...

My hearing is better than it was at its worst. That's not saying much but at least it didn't stay as bad as when I started this post.

Most days it's not a real problem.

Dave, I know what you mean about hearing things others don't. Some mid frequencies seem too loud to me all the time. Plus, it makes sense that if you filter out some frequencies it will bring forward other sounds that were "masked" by those frequencies.

I think I just need to be 20-40 years younger. That would fix everything nicely.

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