Hello team,
I am just about to complete a little project I've been turning over for a while now and I thought I'd post up the concept to see what people think.
Every few years I spend a bit of time measuring my hearing response and try to go to reasonable lengths to get it as accurate as I can. This year, in the last week, I have spent about 7 hours measuring both sides using two different methods.
I have been well aware since '97 when I was installing Meyer UPA 1-P cabinets into a major venue here in Scotland that I have a significant response difference between my ears; (it was not until I was listening to these cabinets that I realised!) I am 38 and suffered a perforated eardrum on the side with less response when I was 5.
Now that I have a current "audiogram" of my response it is my intention, in combination with Fletcher-Munson curves, to produce a counter-response curve which I can apply to a variety of monitoring situations to even out some of the inefficiencies of my hearing.
I am aware that this sounds a little nuts as the brain compensates for losses to the extent that it shouldn't matter, but I have become more and more aware that my hearing is not as good as other peoples', even older than me by some distance and am sure this has an effect on my powers of post production.
The curve would hopefully be subtractive and very mild- nothing beyond 6dB (hardly mild, admittedly!) and be used only in critical monitoring situations- through headphones. (Sennheiser HD-25s)
Does anybody have any constructive criticism of this concept?
I can measure it- but what would people say was a typical monitoring level? (with quiet background) I know this is a "how long is a piece of string" question!
Thanks
JimP
P.S. does anybody know of a FLAC player that would accomodate a complex EQ setting/program...?