Anyone here use hearing aids?

rlw

As from today I do and there's an odd thing happening.  When I pluck the top strings of the guitar, or when I use I a pick with it plugged in, the note has a wow effect to it as it decays.  It's like string pull to listen to and not good tbh.   Wondering if this is usual or not.

phil_b

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stimpsonslostson

I can’t really comment on the “wow effect” as I have really good hearing, however my daughter is deaf & wears hearing aids. 

She reports that some weird distortion is normal & that you get used to some of it. Other things you have to live with (wind noise is a big thing for us). 

I’d give it a few days to get used to it & see how you adjust. 

The systems are very programmable- we told our consultant about some issues & they modified some settings which helped. 

Sorry I can’t be any more help...

Roland

I’ve been using hearing aids for two weeks. The first thing I’ve had to cope with is reprogramming my brain. As musicians our ability to process what we hear is more sophisticated than the average person’s. So reprogramming is harder, and tiring, because of what you have to re-learn. It’s not surprising that your guitar strings will sound different initially until your brain adjusts.

There are also effects caused by the hearing aids. They have a processing delay. Manufacturers claim 6ms. I think it’s more like 10ms on mine. Every china plate or bowl I put on the table sounds as though it’s cracked. It makes some things sound as though they’re going through a Phaser.

Deafness isn’t simply absence of sound. It can include compression, especially in the higher frequencies. Some hearing aids attempt to compensate for compression, which is a possible cause of the wow.

What I don’t know at this point is how many effects my brain will eventually filter out. I’m expecting it to be several months before I can make a decision on whether they are helping more than they hinder.

Strangefan

Pardon?...... Meh that dad joke doesn't really work in the written format. 

Roland

Strangefan said:

Pardon?...... Meh that dad joke doesn't really work in the written format. 

It’s also not going to earn you any friends in this thread

Strangefan

Roland said:

Strangefan said:

Pardon?...... Meh that dad joke doesn't really work in the written format. 

It’s also not going to earn you any friends in this thread

Ffs Chill dood, I was partially deaf till I was 12. I have earned my stripes. 

guitargeek62

^ my wife’s partially and uses that joke on me daily too. Rarely catches me out, but still makes me chuckle every time!

rlw

I’m sure that it’s something that will pass quickly but it’s very strange.
Also my newly acquired Supro Blues King sounds totally shit today when it sounded great yesterday.
Clearly lots of work to be done.
Oh, and I missed the dad joke .....

rlw

phil_b said:

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Is this it?

Nitefly

I've been using the standard NHS Phonak ones for about 3 years now.  Not dead pleased with them, but I can't afford to splurge north of £3k on fancy Boots ones...

They have a little button on top, like a high-pass filter - I find that very useful for reducing the wind noise mentioned by @stimpsonslostson 's daughter.

The biggest problem I have is that I can't hear bass notes any more - anything up to about C on the low E string (8th fret) is just a thud.

thecolourbox

I ordered some after I had a hearing test but I've heard nothing since

tomajoha

My dad was recently fitted with new hearing aids and comments that he now suffers from a weird chorus effect from the top three strings when playing, so much so he doesn’t use them while playing now.

rlw

tomajoha said:

My dad was recently fitted with new hearing aids and comments that he now suffers from a weird chorus effect from the top three strings when playing, so much so he doesn’t use them while playing now.

That's it in a nutshell. Oh.

octatonic

Is it worse than regular AIDS?

johnl

rlw said:

tomajoha said:

My dad was recently fitted with new hearing aids and comments that he now suffers from a weird chorus effect from the top three strings when playing, so much so he doesn’t use them while playing now.

That's it in a nutshell. Oh.

I wonder if tuning a step down might help at all?

rlw

octatonic said:

Is it worse than regular AIDS?

Que ?

paddyb

I wear a hearing aid and I have not noticed that. However it did take a few weeks to get used to it (I have mine about 6 months now) and I went back to the audiologist a few times to tweak the hearing aid until the levels were perfect for me

guitargeek62

rlw said:

octatonic said:

Is it worse than regular AIDS?

Que ?

Whoosh

rlw

johnl said:

rlw said:

tomajoha said:

My dad was recently fitted with new hearing aids and comments that he now suffers from a weird chorus effect from the top three strings when playing, so much so he doesn’t use them while playing now.

That's it in a nutshell. Oh.

I wonder if tuning a step down might help at all?

No as all the dots will be in the wrong place...................

tomajoha

rlw said:

tomajoha said:

My dad was recently fitted with new hearing aids and comments that he now suffers from a weird chorus effect from the top three strings when playing, so much so he doesn’t use them while playing now.

That's it in a nutshell. Oh.

I’ll ask him for an update as he was planning on seeing his specialist about the issue. I suppose the question is, does your hearing loss effect your playing and if not why not just turn them off when playing too? You can then also justifiably not respond when your significant other shouts: TURN IT DOWN!