Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted September 13, 2011 Moderators Share Posted September 13, 2011 Empirical an all http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882394 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 Empirical an allhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882394 Iron Maiden, pretty much made sure that I'm not going to be one of those fortunate ones.....I maybe able to pick things out really well...but there is no doubt my high frequencies are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 Say what now?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 Does it maybe also depend upon the decibels that are being produced throughout said life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I have great ears. Its the processor between them that gets me into trouble and that's not getting any better with age or music. It still works like it did when I was 18. edit: Thinking about the delayed ageing process, maybe it's like keeping an active exercise schedule to retain bone and muscle mass as we age....keep an active brain processing inputs and its pathways may well renew or compensate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Metalrulez Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 My hearing is so fine tuned I hear a constant high pitch ring/whine from the vibration of the atoms that make up the universe!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RevRomansky Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 Left ear, blown out by a firecracker in a can my brother held up to it when I was a kid.Right ear, messed up by a combination of Lyme and shooting a shotgun in 1996. Left ear, my bad ear, is now my good ear. Makes for an interesting time during the mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cephus Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 My brain can sift through a mix and focus on that tambourine part in a beatles song or the squeak of the bassdrum pedal on get on the good foot. But I have to ask my wife three times to repeat herself if she's talking while facing the other way. I have noticed that I have a habit of looking at people's mouths when they talk to me instead of looking them in the eye because it helps me to understand what they're saying. Damned consonants! Can't hardly hear the difference between a T and a P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 ^^ I barely hear anything my wife says to me. It's like a kind of constant background noise ;-) But seriously, I do find it hard to 'hear' in a distributive way. Like you, I can pick out individual notes or sounds within a piece quite well. But if I am concentrating on listening to somethiing, and somebody else speaks to me, I know they are speaking but I don't fully hear them, if you know what I mean? My wife, on the other hand, seems to be able to hold three conversations, while doing two different things with her hands. Is it something to do with the connections between each hemisphere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheBlueStrat Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I can hear pudding from a mile away saying "eat me! it'll be bad on your waistline but I'm so delicious!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stratmaster Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 Interesting study, I think that good musicians have more accurate defining of sound. What the study doesn't go into is what type of musicians have better hearing. Im sure a rock guitarist who gigs in loud bars does not have the same gain as a classical guitist who plays mostly intimate settings with relatively few people at a time. Hearing may be like any other system in our body if you dont use it you lose it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Apple Slim Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I'm 54 and started playing guitar in high school. Thankfully, I spent very little time playing or listening to very loud music so if I have lost anything physically, its no more than normal. Ive spent a lot more time in acoustic music than rock. My pitch recognition and overal musical hearing ability have improved significatly over a lifetime. I did not start out a natural. Had to work hard for all of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I can hear things that no one else around me seems to hear. Like tinnitus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hubert Stumblin Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I hear for a living as I am an audio engineer. I take special care to protect my hearing whenever possible. I wear earplugs when I'm commuting- commuter train, city streets, subway. And when I'm doing something like cutting the lawn or other yardwork that requires loud equipment I use earprotectors. I think my problem with hearing conversation is that I hear everything with equal force. So, parts of the spectrum from say, the TV playing in the backround that most people don't hear I do hear and it interferes with the sound of people talking to me. I think some damage that occurs with most people's hearing kind of acts as a filter to things that would impinge on conversation. As for playing levels, my rare guilty pleasure is plugging in and turning it up loud. I usually don't do it for long stretches and it probably wouldn't be considered all that loud by most players. But I assure you that if I had to do it for gigs I'd be wearing ear protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ralph onion Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 Big ride on the right and snare and high hat on the left. Toms in the middle. Guitar overlay in the center, left and right. Say what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BigTimeFun Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I can hear things that no one else around me seems to hear. Like tinnitus.Me three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thecornman Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I can hear pudding from a mile away saying "eat me! it'll be bad on your waistline but I'm so delicious!" I can hear my girlfriend from a mile away saying "eat me! go below my waistline because I'm so delicious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnowViking Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I can hear sibilance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 It is not about better ears. It is about better hearing due to less degeneration of the brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnowViking Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 It is not about better ears. It is about better hearing due to less degeneration of the brain.You don't say.Interested in how being a musician prevents / slows said degenerative process... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 You don't say. Interested in how being a musician prevents / slows said degenerative process... Use it or lose it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cephus Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 I don't really think it is my guitar or amp that made me this way. Damned drummers and their cymbals and riding a motorcycle with no helmet or a half helmet for years. Now I never ride my motorcycle without hearing protection (and mostly with a helmet these days). Drummers you have to live with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 My father was a radio operator in aircraft and marine transportation and could decipher morse code through all the static from the lunchroom where he worked. He was very adamant in is warnings to my brother and myself when we decided to get into the music business. I can still hear him saying "It's too loud" when we played at his favorite bar back in the 70s. Fortunately we both heeded his advice.Thanks Dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 It appears that musicians have to use their brain, contrary to what appears to be the case on HCEG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted September 13, 2011 Members Share Posted September 13, 2011 score, will! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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