Is it still possible to produce correctly with hearing loss ?

[aciddose]

It is if you understand that the ability to produce attractive high-frequency content depends upon the ability to perceive it.

Realizing that you're dieing is called a "mid-life crisis".

The nerves are dead and unless we get cybernetic hearing implants and artificial nerves or re-grow them, (which is entirely plausible in the future at some point based upon current work) the dead aren't coming back to life.

[Michael L]

Many artists produce quality work despite impairments, because we are 99% awesome and getting more so every day. We just find creative ways to manage the 1%.

[aciddose]

How would you ever know your work is great for those who perceive more of it than you can yourself? The process becomes far less directed and much more by random chance.

Yes there are ways to "manage" that loss but you can't ever "unlose" it. It's gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence

[deastman]

How would you ever know your work is great for those who perceive more of it than you can yourself? The process becomes far less directed and much more by random chance.

Yes there are ways to "manage" that loss but you can't ever "unlose" it. It's gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence

You're depressing me! Stop it.

[deastman]

At any rate, I shall remain doggedly optimistic. This is only one of several efforts currently underway:

http://news.mit.edu/2017/drug-treatment ... -loss-0221

[kbaccki]

I could have sworn we had this same discussion two weeks ago... My hearing's fine, my brain maybe not so much...

[incubus]

I could have sworn we had this same discussion two weeks ago... My hearing's fine, my brain maybe not so much...

Causality loops are brutal.

[aciddose]

I could have sworn we had this same discussion two weeks ago... My hearing's fine, my brain maybe not so much...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to- ... ient-walk/

There are absolutely tons of studies like this being published in the last two years showing significant promise in almost all areas. As is typical it may end up being that our ideas of "growing new organs in pigs" (mmm, bacon) are totally ridiculous if we can cause our existing "permanently damaged" organs to simply repair themselves to near mint-condition.

That might sound totally ridiculous but it is beginning to look like it's far more plausible than anything we else we've dreamt of. "Fixing" a human body including all the organs and brain might really be as simple as flicking a switch labelled "activate fix-yourself mode".

[incubus]

Shoot 'em. Shoot 'em all. Then, shoot 'em again.

I'm so tired of people saying what people can and can't do. It's like that idiot thread where a guy with no arm is playing guitar, not bothered that he has one arm and then everyone here (almost everyone) ripping on him because he wasn't Steve Vai.

Honestly, from the bottom of my fart, GET OVER YOURSELF

[aciddose]

I could hear and enjoy the upper range of frequencies when I was in my teens and I no longer can as I've matured. This doesn't mean the music *cough* I produce isn't far better than it used to be. It only means that it is different and motivated in different ways. I no longer enjoy that same music because I can not and will never actually hear it again. I'm deaf to it now. So I'm interested in other aspects instead.

Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows.

[BertKoor]

I could have sworn we had this same discussion two weeks ago... My hearing's fine, my brain maybe not so much...

Nothing wrong with your memory:


http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 4&t=488036

Same / simular topic with the same graph.
Ended with a bump which wasn't followed up upon...

[aciddose]

Epic musical space opera!

[slipstick]

I have elderly friends who keep asking the same question over and over again...either bad memory or hoping to get an answer they like better next time. And I suspect some other folks have an elderly friend like that...and he's me .

But I'm still deaf in one ear, still can't hear much above about 8KHz in the "good" ear, still have irritating tinnitus and still haven't given up producing music as a hobby. It may not be objectively great but I enjoy making it and listening to the results. And when you get right down to it, who else really counts?

Steve

[NotreDame]

Hi, if I write it to you, it is because you may be the only people who can help me and understand me.

But please, be honest, don't try to reassure me.


Let explain my problem : one year ago, I found that I have a bad sensation (ear fullness) in the right ear.
One evening, in september, I was playing a keyboard.
This keyboard has a bad jack connector, wich makes that the sound was coming only from one earbud.

So I put the earbud in one ear, then I put the same in the other ear (as listening in mono is tiresome).

And here my surprise : the sound is much clearer, much in present in this ear.

So during one year I tried to resolve this problem, as I have an ear fullness sensation in the left ear since one year.

No success. Today same problems, same hearing.


Here is my audiogram also : https://www.noelshack.com/2017-33-1-150 ... gramme.png

This can be helpful to understand how I ear.


My hearing has never been a problem since, I mean I can communicate, but I have a lack in one ear.



So, I continue to see audiologists, I hope they will find an answer and resolve it.




But, where is the problem ?

The problem is that music is my passion, my reason to live. Seriously, this is not words.

I don't want to work professionally in the music or audio field, I want to keep it as a passion, however I always dreamed to achieved my goals.

My goals are "simple" : being good at mixing and composition, and publishing my work.
No matter if I am unknown, I will be unkown for sure. No matter if YOU like it. Just being in my room and creating is something fantastic for me.


So, since I have this hearing problem, I have a lot of questions : can I continue my work, could I progress and good mixing ?

I already made a topic about it, some of you spoke about their problems, their state of mind, their way to see things, and it was really interesting.


BUT !
Many peoples, even my family, said me that I should stop, that I should make something other and I will never go far in that field.
They truly said it, and it really hurt me, to the point that I cried a lot and that I am crying while writing these lines.


They said that I should keep it as a simple hobby, one friend wich is a music maker amateur hurted me a lot by saying that audio people have an excellent hearing, and that someone like me has no chance...
Like I should just making a bit of music every sunday, and keeping it as an hobby...


It is very difficult to describe what I feel, but it's like if I have to say good bye to my reason to live.
That's what people, including my family, is saying to me.


So, first question : is it true ? Does my hearing is so bad that I should stop ? Does sound engineer, or at least everyone wich make mixes seriously have to get an EXCELLENT hearing ?

Second question : there is so much people with audio system (I mean monitors and acoustic) wich are so differents, and far to be perfect, that can still produce really good tracks.

Really, see all the producers from Anjunabeats, from A state of Trance, from Armada Music : many many of them are note sound engineer, but producer. They studied sound engineering, but they didn't make any school.
As I said many of them are mixing with good material, but still in a far from perfect conditions (many pro producers are mixing in their home studio).


I mean, their tracks are sounding differents, some have a lot of medium, some of them have a lot of bass and high, some have really quiet highs.

But, so what ? Their works sounds still pretty good, I would say their tracks are sounding excellent, even if there is obvious differents in the spectrum if we compare them, they sounds good, isn't it the essential ?


The same thing applies to people with hearing loss...

[BertKoor]

Does sound engineer, or at least everyone wich make mixes seriously have to get an EXCELLENT hearing ?

I think in your TWO previous threads we nearly collectively already told you: NO, you DO NOT NEED to have excellent hearing!

Ignore what people might think of it, just do what makes YOU happy.