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Actually digital hearing aids are quite amazing and carry on-board feedback control. But the greater your loss, the more gain you need and the tighter the earmold has to fit and the greater the feedback issue because of the proximity of mic and speaker.
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One thing to consider about the hearing aid situation is feedback


HAids also carry T-coils which enable the sound to bypass the microphone into the aid from the headphone speakers magnetic field thus eliminating microphone feedback and background noise. But the T-coil program also needs to be setup like the audio program rather than the speech enhancement program. The only problem with the T-coil is the frequency limits of the HAid - nothing below 120 Hz which might interfere with root frequencies of some instruments - still not untweakable.

Since both of my ears have differing frequency loss, I'm wondering if I should be monitoring the backing tracks monaurally if I go with the headphones and no HAid. Rather than trying to eq each ear separately with its own eq. Theoretically would one eq unit do the job if all backing tracks are panned center in stereo, or delivered in monaural - same effect basically? A stereo signal in my case might be tougher to tweak. In mono wouldn't the weaker frequencies drop out of the equation in each ear as the monaural signal tricks the brain, and then you eq what are the stronger frequencies remaining in the monaural signal. Hard to explain this because I don't have the techno vocabulary.
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the thing would literally scream with feedback ring that he could not hear

Been there, done that. Boy when those church sounds echo around, clarity is almost impossible especially if your pastor has a "big" voice. HAids were never meant to hear from room to room, let alone in an auditorium. And if you've got your hearing aid turned that far up, you're in trouble with a sneeze or a cough "next door".

Do you think there is more advantage to monaural or center-panned ideas, as opposed to tweak for each ear individually? Remember all of this is to provide enough melodic info to enable me to get a handle on my pitch drift and vocal control.

Thanks for the input - Ian

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