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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #15 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #16 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!
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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2024, 10:33:47 AM »
And I can hear actual mesquitoes

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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #18 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #19 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2024, 09:24:34 AM »
You guys do realize that this thread was bumped by a "bot" pushing a "free IQ test" right?

And still a better convo than a sniveling post.

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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2024, 09:27:56 AM »
I can't hear the hiss on my Compact Cassettes anymore or leastwise over the natural internal cranial hiss. Great!
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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2024, 09:50:35 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #23 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #24 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #25 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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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #26 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.

https://bellsofbliss.com/pages/sound-frequency-analyzer

Mic definitely has a better range of pickup. Me talking.

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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2024, 09:56:38 PM »
I hit 1.2Khz on that analyzer. How high can you go?

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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #28 on: November 15, 2024, 04:29:59 PM »

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Re: Can you hear the mosquito tone? take the test.
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2024, 09:08:40 AM »
I hit 1.2Khz on that analyzer. How high can you go?



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