Originally Posted By: jazzmandan
Have suffered a long time with this problem. At one point I thought it would drive me insane, than thankfully, I leaned to live with it. Pretty constant in my case. Between tinnitus and general hearing loss I have concluded my ability to do a good mix is all but lost. This too I have learned to live with.


Have you tried aids? I have a young research trained audiologist who is completely intrigued by my interest in music production. She has worked with me long and patiently to get my aids to in increase gain in the exact frequency ranges that I need for mixing - and listening to music in general (also includes birds that I haven't heard in 20 years). We sit in front of her computer and play around with EQ gain.

I can immediately bump my aids up to a program that really attenuates the high end...so much that I would never leave them there except when mixing. Between that and feedback from mixers with normal hearing I've returned to mixing after a decade of doing none. And when you get them suddenly friends and family quit mumbling smile Mine are high zoot, talk to each other, and can laser beam in on a voice in a busy restaurant, etc. Like everything the technology has come a huge ways. FWIW, I was diagnosed with tinnitus and a profound high frequency loss.

And as I previously mentioned when you are able to again hear these frequencies there is a reduced tendency to "hear" the tinnitus.

Bud

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