If you can't hear (or barely hear) certain frequencies, how do you know when you have it EQ'd so they are right?

fireberd
If you can't hear (or barely hear) certain frequencies, how do you know when you have it EQ'd so they are right?

I'm guessing that the graph will show a frequency plot with dips where you hearing is not an ideal flat response. Most likely there will be a low pass filter in your hearing that rolls off at some frequency, (i.e. Say 6 KHz0 with a given slope. You can insert a EQ filter at the end of the chain that boosts those frequencies to compensate.

You've been through the test. When they perform the test, do you have to say "that sounds about about 20 dB down from 1Khz"? What if you're having a "bad hear day!"... :-)

Walt

Sure it's guess work but what I'm proposing is you make a mirror image of the frequency chart. 
If your hearing test shows a dip of 20 db at 1,000 hz you boost that frequency by 20 db.. ?? 
I know it probably more complicated than this , but that is what I saw the technician doing. 
The difference was he could somehow adjust this with the aids on my wife and see the results on the screen with the software. 

I didn't get any graph from the hearing aid provider.  He showed it to me, briefly, but that was all.  It wasn't enough that I would remember how much loss and what frequencies.  I do remember that both ears did not have the same general hearing loss and did not have the same frequency loss curve.  To properly compensate I would have to set the Right and Left channels differently.  The hearing aids is a better approach, as they compensate and equalize the losses.
 

With the amount of bass in some of today's music, investing in hearing aid companies might not be a bad idea either.

patm300e
With the amount of bass in some of today's music, investing in hearing aid companies might not be a bad idea either.

When I worked at On Semiconductor in the 80s, I designed a very sophisticated integrated circuit for a hearing aid for a company in Indiana that contained (believe it or not) one transistor and one resistor. The yields were very high!

Walt

I will turn 55 in December. I find myself going down this road as well, therefore I am watching this thread with great interest. I have already been tested and the results were that my left ear has more hearing damage than the right ear. I did a lot of shooting as a young man.

Right now, they said I was considered borderline as far as needing hearing aids. Would it improve my hearing right now, yes. I hear bass pretty well. Highs were about normal for a man my age. Mids I had a dip in the chart.

Customizing the EQ for your ears would probably work better with headphones than studio monitors.  But, as most (including me) have different response curves for each ear, the left and right channels would have to be individually EQ'd to get the right response.

How good are the online hearing tests? Some of them don't give you much output but here's one that gives you an audiogram.
 
http://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_hearingtestaudiogram.php
 
gabo

I think if you asked they would print the graph for you.