From: "Barb Beck" <>
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> Another thing to remember when removing hiss from recordings you want others
> to hear is that if your high hearing is going even somewhat you can create
> something which sounds just fine to your ears but "dead" and unnatural to
> somebody who hears the high stuff well. You can even find some commercial
> stuff which has been overprocessed.
Or, conversely, there are lots of folks who think their high hearing is
perfect and adjust their recordings accordingly. Making way too much
high frequency emphasis and poor low frequencies. There are probably far
more folks like that than ones who, by some miracle, still have the high
frequency hearing of their youth.
Overprocessing works both ways. It's amazing how many folks will get
into painful detail about their equipment, process the sound to their
taste using their hearing, and don't have a clue to what their own
hearing is like in detail. If you are haggling over the lint on the
sound, you should haggle even more over the lint on your hearing. Get
tested, at all frequencies, know what your ears are doing. And don't
just test once and think it does not change. There are inexpensive kits
available to self test that can do a fairly decent job of tracking it.
I know my high frequency hearing is far worse than it was when I was
young. It's one of the reasons why I process with a realtime sonogram
display in the chain. Helps a lot. Also helps to deal with that
impression there is a lot of high frequency stuff to worry about. Only
in real close recordings, not the norm for nature recording. And even
there it's a minor component.
A sort of hiss or ringing is another thing that can happen to folks
hearing when they age, or abuse their hearing. I expect some are trying
to remove something that's not in the recording. Find what you want to
remove in a sonogram first. If it's not in the sonogram, it may be you.
Walt
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