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Re: Using recording equipment - with hearing aids

Subject: Re: Using recording equipment - with hearing aids
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:08:51 -0800
Arvind, you wrote,

>I wear hearing aids to correct a congenital hearing loss. While it is
>perfectly adequate for normal day to day work, when outdoors there
>are often bird sounds (or anything that nature produces) that escape
>me. Some of it may be due to the frequency, some may be because it is
>too soft for my hearing aids to amplify..
>
>I was wondering if anyone has experience hooking up hearing aids to
>recording instruments so as to be able to amplify distant sounds and
>record them. My intention is firstly to be able to apreciate the
>nuances of these sounds ... and then the possiblity of recording
>them.

Have you tried the opposite? Can you get any satisfaction out of
listening to a highly amplified stereo mike on stereo headphones?
Your hearing aids may be equalized to emphasize speech
intelligibility, and to filter out "noise" which is what you want to
hear in nature.

-Dan Dugan


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