noisyhumbucker


Great info from all, thank you. Yes I have true tinnitus, and yes I'm only running one eq at a time (not compounding).
The two biggest things (other than jacked-up ears) are that I'm a guitarist by nature and suffer from hate-my-own-recorded-voice-itus. Only doing it all myself because my partner in crime is too busy raising three kids and maintaining a house, if I can't get him to sing then hopefully I can borrow his ears long enough to get an objective opinion.  Figures I wouldn't be this motivated to do all the work to make music until after my ear went to hell.
Thanks again, I'll rest when I die :) (okay not really but I've got to at least finish this one song soon or I'm going to go crazy)

One thing you might want to look into as a permanent solution would be to get a room correction system, and set it up with help from a friend whose ears you trust.  I use the ARC2 system from IK Multimedia and have been quite happy with it.  It might help in your situation.  Once you have a correction that you trust and train yourself to it, you would stick the ARC2 VST as the final plug on your Master bus every time and you would have the same EQ for Listening applied (besides correcting for room acoustics).

I haven't tried this for this purpose and there might be some pitfall I'm overlooking, but it seems like it would be worth a shot.

Anyone else have ideas/comments/opinions on trying this?