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Post by david on May 17, 2023 19:12:36 GMT -5
For those of us with hearing aids, you know that some pitches can throw the HAs into a bad feedback ringing.
For those of you who use HAs, when you play guitar alone, do you have them in or out?
If you play in a band, do you play with them in or out?
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Post by Marshall on May 17, 2023 19:17:02 GMT -5
“WHAT ?!?!?!”
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Post by Marty on May 17, 2023 19:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 17, 2023 20:43:59 GMT -5
David, I hate rpthe way acoustic guitar sounds with my hearing aides in. I always take them out. Although, for some unexplainable reason, when I hear acoustic guitar played through a radio, it’s fine with them in. Go figure.
Mike
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2023 21:20:51 GMT -5
My hearing aids are ReSound Linx, a few years old but high-end HAs. They have a music mode that I use whenever playing or listening to music.
I remember playing a guitar and thinking the instrument was broken, with loose braces or something. It just sounded horrible and couldn't stand to listen to me play. It took a while to realize that the bad sounds weren't coming from the guitar but were being created by the HAs. As soon as I switched to music mode, the guitar was miraculously repaired and sounded wonderful again.
The "normal" setting for HAs processes incoming sounds to make human speech understandable. They are set to compensate for the hearing loss pattern your audiologist measured. The music mode bypasses the speech processing part and just flattens the EQ so music sounds the way it should.
I don't know which HAs have a music mode but mine do and Fiddlerina's top-end Phonak HAs do. Fiddlerina's HA's are provided for her by the VA Hospital where she gets her medical care, I have to buy mine. These HAs are both many thousands of dollars per pair.
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Post by TKennedy on May 17, 2023 21:42:10 GMT -5
I have Starkys, high end, and the music mode is pretty good for plugged in playing listening mainly to the amp but for straight acoustic I take ‘em out. Maybe I should see my audiologist again.
If listening for buzzes on a repair or setup in for sure! Usually in for tapping a top while voicing.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2023 21:51:36 GMT -5
I think ReSound are preferred for and by musicians.
I never have unpleasant sounds using my music mode.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 17, 2023 22:35:19 GMT -5
I think ReSound are preferred for and by musicians. I never have unpleasant sounds using my music mode. I have Signia. They have a music mode. It doesn’t work. Mike |
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Post by drlj on May 18, 2023 7:48:55 GMT -5
I have high frequency deafness. The bass strings sound good.
No hearing aids, but I should have, probably.
I realized how bad my HF deafness was after buying a coffee pot. It beeped when done. I was ticked because when I made coffee the beeper didn’t go off. Just as I started to complain, Barb came out of the bedroom and said, that is the loudest damn beeper I ever heard. Can’t you turn it off?
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2023 8:22:28 GMT -5
I have high frequency deafness. The bass strings sound good. No hearing aids, but I should have, probably. I realized how bad my HF deafness was after buying a coffee pot. It beeped when done. I was ticked because when I made coffee the beeper didn’t go off. Just as I started to complain, Barb came out of the bedroom and said, that is the loudest damn beeper I ever heard. Can’t you turn it off? Fiddlerina has that problem too. I can barely hear it when I’m standing close, she doesn’t hear it at all. My loss is in the range of the consonants in human speech so I need the HAs to understand what people are saying. With the aids in, we both experience normal hearing. |
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2023 8:41:04 GMT -5
I think ReSound are preferred for and by musicians. I never have unpleasant sounds using my music mode. I have Signia. They have a music mode. It doesn’t work. Mike I’m not familiar with Signia so don’t know how they are most often used. I do know that many HAs, especially those that are inexpensive or use older technology, are basically amplifiers that just make everything louder. The high-end ReSounds have been engineered to be programmed to deal with very specific needs. When my audiologist was “tuning” mine, including the music mode, I brought my mandolin to the office to play during the process so we could get it right. I could have brought a guitar but the mandolin is easier to tote and includes the needed frequencies. They have devices that can listen to to the output of from the HAs inside your ear to be sure they understand what you’re dealing with. I spent several years as a volunteer at the University of Iowa engaged in studies of HAs. During that time, I was given many different HAs to wear while recording details about their use and effectiveness. Most turned out to be annoying at some level but ReSound and Phonak were clearly above the rest with ReSound the clear winner for music. |
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2023 8:45:37 GMT -5
No hearing aids, but I should have, probably. You might want to consider HAs. It could be like having a whole new guitar collection. It isn’t just the treble notes, it’s the harmonic frequencies of the lower notes too. YMMV |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 18, 2023 9:04:21 GMT -5
I have high frequency deafness. The bass strings sound good. No hearing aids, but I should have, probably. I realized how bad my HF deafness was after buying a coffee pot. It beeped when done. I was ticked because when I made coffee the beeper didn’t go off. Just as I started to complain, Barb came out of the bedroom and said, that is the loudest damn beeper I ever heard. Can’t you turn it off? The best argument for HAs is that hearing is part of the nervous system, and with long term hearing loss you also lose cognitive ability. You want to keep all the pathways open and firing for as long as possible. Mike |
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Post by david on May 18, 2023 11:11:03 GMT -5
I witnessed my dad withdraw from socializing because he could not understand others. Hearing loss can be an isolating disease.
Though I have had a few different brands, I avoid social settings with much background noise. As Dub suggested, it is not volume, it is sound discrimination.
I have not met a hearing aid user who is happy with his or her HAs in situations with a lot of background noise.
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Post by jdd2 on May 18, 2023 18:50:46 GMT -5
I read something once to the effect that being blind was far 'better' than being deaf, since if blind, you'd still be thoroughly engaged with the world. (or at least that opportunity would still be there)
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