[78-L] Jack Towers, truncating the high frequencies

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Back in the 80s I ran a professional 16 track studio and I purchased a 
programmable graphic equalizer for the studio. It was used to match the 
engineers individual hearing curves to "flat".
I'd get each of my engineer's hearing tested and then, using that curve, 
modify the EQ on the graphic so that, no matter what hearing losses or 
gains each engineer had, what he heard was flat on the recording/mixing 
board in front of him with all the EQ controls zeroed.
Simple.
Malcolm

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On 12/26/2010 3:41 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 12/26/2010 3:40 PM, Graham Newton wrote:
>>
>> It is a well documented medical phenomenon, that as we get older our high
>> frequency hearing ability declines, such that at 65 years of age the upper
>> limit is about 1/2 of what an 18 year old person could hear.
>>
>> I make more and more reference to the frequency displays in my equipment to
>> confirm what is there and what I am hearing (or not hearing).
>> The DK Audio Spectrum display or CEDAR Cambridge's Spectrum Analyzer (which is
>> a lab quality device) are invaluable to make sure I am not making errors based
>> on what I know that I can't hear any more.
>>
>> Often, taking a known-to-be-excellent recording and displaying it's
>> characteristics gives a good reference for what decisions you could or should
>> be making when working on recordings.  Without these tools, older audio people
>> can easily make errors that would be blatantly obvious to younger ears.
>>
>>
> My hearing is still fine, but my SPEAKERS are totally shot. That makes for
> interesting speculative adjustments.
>
> Alan Jay Lerner relates a wonderful story about Irving Berlin playing a new
> song he'd written for a score, and how with Irving's piano technique it sounded
> terrible. The producer looked worried, till someone said "Irving..play Blue
> Skies."  IT sounded terrible. The producer shouted "It's a great song, Irving."
>
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