Hears from Plugin Alliance $29.99 US

[peter]

 

Overview

This is a PA_EXT plugin from an external provider. It will be available via the PA webshop for 96 hrs ONLY. PA_EXT plugins are NOT part of our subscription bundles (MEGA L, XL, XXL, etc.) They cannot be bought in conjunction with PA Loyalty vouchers.

Enhance the most important pieces of gear you own – your ears.
Designed in collaboration with one of America’s most acclaimed audiologists, HEARS fixes the hearing deficiencies affecting your ability to produce professionally. BETTER HEARING = BETTER MIXES, period

The perfect mixing environment for your ears

HEARS tests your hearing, pinpoints exactly where it’s lacking, and FIXES it. Finally, hear your mixes FLAT! Like having prescription glasses for your ears. HEARS Helps anyone, from those with the tiniest amount of hearing loss to  moderate and severe hearing loss. Create multiple profiles for multiple/different sets of monitors, headphones, or any speakers you mix on.

Features

SUPER LOW CPU processing power, so you can leave it on all the time in the background

Create individual profiles for monitors, headphones, and any system

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/hears.html

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[thesteven]

This could probably be used as another (perhaps less expensive) room/headphone/monitor compensation tool.
Other than that I don’t see this as being a tool that full time audio professionals would use, as I think that they (out of necessity) have learned to compensate for their hearing deficiencies.
But could be useful to the part time, semipro or hobbyist engineer/producer.

As, at this point, I have to count myself in the second category I would be interested to hear if anyone here has tried this and their experience.

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[peter]

I’m also curious about this. I was born with an inner ear birth defect that resulted in a significant hearing loss and some frequencies I can’t hear. My way of dealing with it has been largely to do my best and rely on AI for mastering. But it would be great if something could help me to account for what I can’t hear, if that’s at all realistic. I suppose I haven’t been too focused on it because the truth is that my listening audience is mainly confined to family,  friends and a few musicians who stumbled upon my recordings. But it would be nice to have a way to account for what my ears can’t hear so that what they hear sounds its best.

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[jude77]

I got it during the last sale.  It seems to do a good job of testing your hearing.  Is the test as good as going to an audiologist?  Probably not, but I’m guessing it does a decent job of letting you know where your hearing issues are.  I was relieved to discover I wasn’t as deaf as I thought.  You drop it on the end of your plugin chain (usually on the master buss) and it adds an inverse curve of what your hearing loss is.  It let me see I was adding a bit too much top end to my mixes to compensate for my loss there.  IMHO it was worth $29.

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