@XerTheSquirrel omg I i need to know more xD. As an autistic audio engineer with a fascination about how we percieve sound, i could ask so many questions omg.
Just like, is this an all the time thing?
@eclectic It is all the time yes! The pitch in my right ear is higher. If I play a 440 Hz sine wave in my hearing aids for both my ears, my right ear has a distorted sine wave and it sounds like a rapid change in pitch going up and down I guess?
If I do a square wave, I think it goes up an entire note on my right ear.
@eclectic I guess for my right ear, I guess it is called a beat or something? Like the sine wave on my right ear has binaural beats.
But I am not an audio engineer and I do not know much about audio.
@XerTheSquirrel fascinating! 🤓
Have you talkes to your hearing aids team about it? This could be an issue with calibration, but if its not its friggin cool!
Does this then further affect the music you like? For example, would it be harder to listen to music heavily based in square waves as the pitch would be off?
Thanks for sharing btw, this is so frickin cool
@eclectic I have not talked to them at all, it is not really much of a concern for me at all. With my hearing aids off, my right ear is still higher pitched. It is more noticeable with hearing aids on due to the amplification of sound to normal.
As for music, it does not really affect me at all since I am used to it. I listen to it regardless, but I had to get used to hearing aids since everything used to be dull sounding.
@eclectic It is okies! No worries!
For directional sounds, I do not feel like there are any issues with it. The brain will happily compensate for things. However, if I got the pitched corrected in my hearing aids I would have to get used to it again.
I suppose if one sound was played in one ear and another in the other, it would sound a bit different, I would just notice the pitch being different.
@eclectic I definitely know that humans are very adaptable to many different situations, you just get used to everything. For things you cannot do, there are alternative solutions to it all.
It is fine, I have accepted that my hearing is not the best and is slowly going away. It does not bother me at all.
@XerTheSquirrel its a fucking cool part of being human honestly.
And yeah, its a hard thing to accept for sure. Im still struggling too myself, but im at peace with it.
@XerTheSquirrel that makes sense. My professors were super shitty about the minds/brains ahility to form a new understanding of such things, and it got a bit burnt into my head.
And yeah! Thats what i mean by the ears being parallel processors! Many people think of hearing as one system, but really its two separate systems being used. Survival of the fittest and all, can still hear if one ear is bitten off.
Honestly it would be an interesting experience to have that split between the ears for a day. Just long enough to percieve it and reckon with it, but not long enough to get used to it. I feel as though it would train the ears to work more independently.
Sorry, that isnt to say that your hearing loss is "cool" or that its some kind of costume. Moreso that it would be a mindflip for a day.