The caveat is that most computer speakers cannot produce tones above 15khz.
That's what I was thinking, too. Starting at 15 KHz all I could hear was a snap at the beginning and the end. Happy though since I could hear 12 KHz on the video and 14 on the website which makes my ears much younger than my years.
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Post by: caldera on October 22, 2016, 12:24:58 PM
One of the advantages of poor hearing is the ease of tuning people out. Like .squelch in real life. :D
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Post by: Bizman on October 22, 2016, 12:58:24 PM
My daughter's cat didn't learn how to make a sound in a frequency that people can hear, she meows in the ultra high register. Her mouth opens but you can't hear anything. Might be interesting to record that, seeing the meters go to red without an audible sound...
And dang! I just tested my phones by letting my 18 y.o. daughter listen to the sounds on the website. She could hear much higher sounds and even feel the sound of 20 KHz, past that only the snap sounds at the beginning and the end. I suspect my headset really can't reproduce past 20 KHz.
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Post by: BuckShot on October 24, 2016, 06:06:47 PM
One of the advantages of poor hearing is the ease of tuning people out. Like .squelch in real life. :D
It's even better when you've developed the 'that guy can't hear' reputation at work too.
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Post by: Bizman on November 05, 2024, 01:28:03 AM
Quite a necro bump, 8 years. And the video is twice that old.
But your question is relevant, none of the answers actually tell the age. So: I'm 62 and I still can hear the 12 kHz buzz but like before the 15 kHz whine only the switching snap is audible to me.
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Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2024, 08:25:39 AM
My hearing is shot and I have Tinnitus. People who speak clearly I have no trouble understanding face to face without hearing aids. People who don't speak clearly I struggle to understand even with hearing aids. You might think older people would understand this and practice speaking clearly. Some are as bad as teens.
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Post by: Eagler on November 05, 2024, 08:38:34 AM
Huh?
Speak up sonny... :old:
Eagler
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Post by: Shuffler on November 05, 2024, 09:06:18 AM
Let me set my frozen margarita down..... what if I already have a buzz?
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Post by: Animl-AW on November 05, 2024, 09:10:29 AM
Our hearing is the best it can be at birth. In the modern world we take on hearing damage from that time on.
Things you wouldn’t think cause damage does. Lawn mowers at about 90db for extended time cause damage. Just being outside with no noises is about 60-70db. The frequencies you are exposed to are the ones that will take a hit on your hearing.
Ever get in a car with someone who works in a steel mill? Their radio is tuned very tinny, all high-end freqs,…because high-end damage has diminished those freqs in their hearing. These booming cars with loud subsonic freqs blasting they are chasing a dragon. They damage their ears with those freqs. Meaning to hear it the same they have to keep turning up those freqs because of damage.
Fact, because females are not usually exposed to things like construction tools hear much better than males. They can hear those high freqs and can hear you whisper to yourself about them. lol. They hear that stuff.
Because I’ve been exposed to all freqs at high volumes !(110db-120db) my hearing has no dips the entire spectrum is burned out, meaning my total volume has diminished equally. Yes I’ve had tinnitus for decades.
The longer the exposure the more damage. 110db fir 45 min, you have damage. Many sound guys get louder and louder to the point of irresponsible to the listener. The band Jackyl was at 122db for 75 min. It was so thumpy loud it made my heart skip beats. I was worried about the structure of the venue, literally.
Its a long subject , but here is a chart https://www.ncoa.org/adviser/hearing-aids/decibel-levels/
If you spent most of your life in a forest your hearing is awesome compared to someone in a city. Your highest volume is wind.
Every 3db increase is the doubling of volume.
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Post by: Animl-AW on November 05, 2024, 09:32:39 AM
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Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2024, 10:17:15 AM
If people keep asking you to repeat yourself maybe it's not them?
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Post by: The Fugitive on November 05, 2024, 10:44:11 AM
I took the test, and I can hear the mosquito tone! It's interesting how age affects our hearing. How did others do? iq test free online (https://iqtestfree.io/)
You guys do realize that this thread was bumped by a "bot" pushing a "free IQ test" right?
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Post by: Bizman on November 05, 2024, 11:40:37 AM
Dang!
I was going to ask how you could tell that it's a bot in question as they seemingly didn't try to sell anything, just eagerly continuing the conversation. Agreed, it's their first post ever but then again, necro bumping old threads as first post seems to be common habit on the other forum I'm active on.
But then I clicked the double line on the last line. Never thought there'd be hidden text and a hyperlink in what I thought was a signature work in progress! Thanks, learned something new today!
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Post by: -gg- on November 05, 2024, 09:48:48 PM
my ears are plugged up right now but I can still hear the 15k tone. When the infection cleares up I'm pretty certain I could hear the 17k tone.
I'm 59
Both of my ears ( probably same as everyone here) have different response curves at various frequencies. My room is tuned pretty well and I have decent speakers. When I listen to a sine wave sweep from 20-20, I hear sounds droppng out in different ears in certain areas. It's kind of a trip to listen to that and hear that. It sounds liek someone is twisting an EQ knob and panning it left and right, back and forth at a couople of frequencies.
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Post by: fuzeman on November 06, 2024, 06:33:59 AM
Punctured eardrums since high school and I’m 66 now with bad hearing and air-raid siren tinnitus. Recently purchased a car from North Carolina that does this. https://youtube.com/shorts/HgMEE-CrUdA?si=zH-V7K2bxujF_65z
It sets off my tinnitus big time! Anybody like to diagnose weird electrical problems??
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Post by: -gg- on November 06, 2024, 10:33:47 AM
And I can hear actual mesquitoes
lol
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Post by: icepac on November 07, 2024, 07:16:00 AM
Parents and grandparents hated taking me shopping at the malls in the 70s and 80s because I couldn't handle the high pitched tones in mall stores.
My whistle register left me at 50 but I could put out a sound higher than my friend could make with his guitar.
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Post by: AKIron on November 07, 2024, 08:02:38 AM
Lot of sounds I can't hear including the "s" sound. Wife gets annoyed because I tend to draw that sound out when conversing with her and whatever I'm saying ends with that. Many years of loud high pitched cooling fans and jet engines took their toll.
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Post by: Animl-AW on November 07, 2024, 09:24:34 AM
my ears are plugged up right now but I can still hear the 15k tone. When the infection cleares up I'm pretty certain I could hear the 17k tone.
I'm 59
Both of my ears ( probably same as everyone here) have different response curves at various frequencies. My room is tuned pretty well and I have decent speakers. When I listen to a sine wave sweep from 20-20, I hear sounds droppng out in different ears in certain areas. It's kind of a trip to listen to that and hear that. It sounds liek someone is twisting an EQ knob and panning it left and right, back and forth at a couople of frequencies.
Joe Perry pretty much damaged my left ear. I was placing a mic in front of his gtr stacks before sound check. He comes out and decides to test his gtr, not realizing the gtr tech had not set his volume, which all were at 11. Happens in handling. I didn’t notice he had come out or I’d step back. Hit a cord and I thought someone kicked me in the left ear. I stood up wanting to kick ars. He just turns around, see the look on my face and said, “I’m really sorry”. He was still whacked from the night before so I just kinda gave him that look and finished.
My hearing balanced out as my right ear diminished a little. Ha!
My high-end starts dipping after 12k. My ears feel something but I my brain doesn’t hear it.
I cut 12k and above on a parametric eq on any mic channel. Even if you can’t hear those well there is a war between the ear and brain to block out irritant noises. It can irritate people even if they don’t know why they feel just a touch edgy. Compressed MP3s in ear buds have similar effect.
I’ll also dip out 1.6k on every vocal mic for the same reason, its that am radio sound that makes a mic sound electrified. It should never sound like its passing through wire. 1.6k is an irritant freq.
In my case I am lower in all freqs across the board, I still hear flat. :)
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Post by: -gg- on November 07, 2024, 02:37:22 PM
Joe Perry pretty much damaged my left ear. I was placing a mic in front of his gtr stacks before sound check. He comes out and decides to test his gtr, not realizing the gtr tech had not set his volume, which all were at 11. Happens in handling. I didn’t notice he had come out or I’d step back. Hit a cord and I thought someone kicked me in the left ear. I stood up wanting to kick ars. He just turns around, see the look on my face and said, “I’m really sorry”. He was still whacked from the night before so I just kinda gave him that look and finished.
My hearing balanced out as my right ear diminished a little. Ha!
My high-end starts dipping after 12k. My ears feel something but I my brain doesn’t hear it.
I cut 12k and above on a parametric eq on any mic channel. Even if you can’t hear those well there is a war between the ear and brain to block out irritant noises. It can irritate people even if they don’t know why they feel just a touch edgy. Compressed MP3s in ear buds have similar effect.
I’ll also dip out 1.6k on every vocal mic for the same reason, its that am radio sound that makes a mic sound electrified. It should never sound like its passing through wire. 1.6k is an irritant freq.
In my case I am lower in all freqs across the board, I still hear flat. :)
it's even more helpful to high pass anything past, say, 150Hz on any kind of gaming mic. Probably higher. Low frequencies take up a lot of bandwidth and engery that just takes away from the sound quality.
But yeah, anything above 8k is not going to be contributiung much of anything to a mic used for phone or gaming stuff.
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Post by: Animl-AW on November 07, 2024, 05:12:45 PM
it's even more helpful to high pass anything past, say, 150Hz on any kind of gaming mic. Probably higher. Low frequencies take up a lot of bandwidth and engery that just takes away from the sound quality.
But yeah, anything above 8k is not going to be contributiung much of anything to a mic used for phone or gaming stuff.
For speeches I roll off lows at 125-130hhz. Unless you’re singing low notes not many voices go below that. I’ll roll off at 6-7k depending on setting. On a Shure 87 for sure.
8k in band vocal mics will also allow highs of symbols from the drums to bleed in .
We’re on the same page.
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Post by: Brooke on November 11, 2024, 02:49:29 PM
You can hear this Mosquito tone if you fly Saturday starting 7 pm US Eastern time, special events 2 arena. Last glorious frame of the scenario.
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Post by: AKIron on November 11, 2024, 06:06:07 PM
Interesting app. I bought a better mic and it picks up more bass. Just a Blue Yeti, not expensive, but better than my headset mic. I'm told I sound better with it. Did a couple of voiceovers for a couple of DCS campaigns.
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Post by: Bizman on November 16, 2024, 11:40:20 AM
Tried squealing and singing, at first I could hit almost 1k but then it stayed in the 250-ish no matter how I squeaked.
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Post by: AKIron on November 18, 2024, 11:36:29 AM
Don't know how reliable that analyzer is but it's going to be limited by your mic. I might have to compare my various headset mics with each other and my Blue Yeti.
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Post by: Shuffler on November 18, 2024, 04:12:36 PM
I am quite sure my SAMSON G Track Pro sounds better than any of my headset mics. Although a couple of the headset mics are pretty darn good.