What's your upper hearing range?

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God, I hate being hearing disabled! And- I don't attribute it to my years of hard living and loud amps, but mostly to genetics and criminal assault resulting in multiple tympanic ruptures which are not surgically correctible. Sorry, I have *nothing* above 6K, and that is the "good" ear. Gosh, I knew there was a reason why I'm not a mixing engineer! Christ- high frequencies are something I *see*, not hear. That's one of the reasons I'm focused on capturing the frequencies that are there as accurately and as balanced as possible. I *can't* fix them with EQ to make them sound good to *you*. All I can do is get it right going in, and then hand off the file to the nice mixing engineer. I can't afford the luxury of cheap mics or cheap preamps. I think I've done pretty well with what I have, but I would *kill* to have the hearing of the worst of y'all. Massive Master- 21.5K- God, you write pretty well- for a dog.-Richie
 
With sox it's fairly easy to create tones to test your hearing range. (or the range of your speakers)

$ play -n synth 5 sine 15000 gain -1

$ sox -n -s -2 -c 2 -r 48000 something.wav synth 5 sine 15000 gain -1

Or something like that. One plays it, the other creates a WAV file of it. Change the Hz until you can't hear it or it doesn't change anymore (speakers limit). Just one way to actually know what you're listening to without having to spectrum analyze the waveform.
 
Steenamaroo said:
duno who that's directed at but i tested on senn hd280s and mackie hr624s.
i was gona suggest this to the OP, but i figure if he has two sig gens at work, he might be working somewhere with monitors too.
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I have sig. gens. at work because I'm a technician in a school science department, I don't work in audio. I hope everyone last night realised I was being slightly less than serious with a few of my posts. :D
 
Massive Master said:
Last test was just shy of 22kHz in the right and just less (around 21.5) in the left.

This is why I can't use ribbon tweeters... And why VDO whine drives me absolutely batty to this day (although there are fewer and fewer recordings with it thanks to LCD/LED/Plasma technology).
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Dear God, that's astounding! :eek:
 
yeh, nice one Mmaster...


tell us though,,,is there anything good going on up there?
 
First - what are your speakers capable of? Chances are listening to that file on computer speaker, they would not provide anything over 15K anyway. I heard the 14K, which is somewhat pleasing as I have had loud concert deafness syndrome many times. Worst was Led Zep in 73 - I was deaf in my right ear for 4 days.
 
mjbphotos said:
First - what are your speakers capable of? Chances are listening to that file on computer speaker, they would not provide anything over 15K anyway. I heard the 14K, which is somewhat pleasing as I have had loud concert deafness syndrome many times. Worst was Led Zep in 73 - I was deaf in my right ear for 4 days.
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Well. I was listening on supposed full-range headphones - not very good ones, admittedly. :D
 
Awesome! You've looked after your ears well!
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I hate to say "not really" -- Although when I really think about it, I suppose I've always had a tendency to avoid fatiguing distortion... I was in a rather active metal band for years, but we were much more "crunch" than "fuzz" if you know where I'm going there... Did some touring with Manowar when they were still quite proud of their "loudest bad in the world" Guiness record, but more of the same -- They were LOUD - But very clean and non-irritating.

Currently, I put on a lot of motorcycle miles - although I suppose I've done everything I can to stop wind buffeting, I usually don't wear plugs unless there's a direct crosswind or ------

Okay, I guess I'm seeing a pattern here too. That said, I don't feel as if I take any extraordinary measures - I just try to avoid nastiness.
tell us though,,,is there anything good going on up there?
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Analytically? Sure. But I only ever notice anything "real" going on with Chesky recordings and what not.
 
In terms of EQ in that 10kHz to 20kHz realm I notice cymbals, snares, mallets (marimba / vibes), and spoken word get brought out in a mix when boosted in that range. A lot of mics start to taper down pretty quick after 20kHz, if not before there. And the sample rate for 44.1kHz doesn't really allow for much content in the upper bands.
 
Massive Master said:
Last test was just shy of 22kHz in the right and just less (around 21.5) in the left.
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:eek::eek::eek:

Bubba po said:
I hope everyone last night realised I was being slightly less than serious with a few of my posts. :D
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Haha yeah I picked that up instantly. Hope RAMI did too ;)

Oh and my hearing goes to about 17K, more or less. But then again, I did just do a test on my laptop speakers, sooo they might just have cut out instead of my ears cutting out.
 
What I find interesting....even though I know my hearing doesn't go out to 22kHz (John, you're such a freak :D ;) )... I'm still over sensitive to HF sounds. Even small spikes in the average HF range are irritating. It's always been like that for me. I just can't stand music/sounds with too much HF hype. I like the upper Mids and Highs to have a "creamy" quality to them (for lack of a better word).
 
I don't believe that Bats' echolocation is as foolproof as biologists would have us believe. Have you ever seen a bat's face? It's obvious the big-eared little feckers are flying into solid things on a daily basis.
 
grimtraveller said:
Actually, it's "Nutriments and sustenance ! Fly ! Fly fast !". But 'food' is cool. :D
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Ahhh well some bat words translate differently from British bat language to American bat language. Very tricky business! I plan on writing my dissertation on it.

:laughings:
 
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