A whole new feature that I believe is a great idea

Updated March 07, 2021 02:15

January 14, 2017 16:34

Hi,

I'd like to suggest a new calibration feature that would certainly be of great value to me and I believe to many other people as well. I'd love to see a function like "Calibrate your ears", by which the plug-in will make up for the frequencies that are not perceived well enough due to any kind of hearing loss based on measurements made in the same fashion that an audiogram test is done, i.e. sending sounds of specific frequencies at ever-decreasing volumes to the headphones until the user cannot hear them anymore. The plug-in then will know something about the user's hearing capabilities and adjust the EQ on each channel accordingly to make up for lost hearing. The starting volume (to initiate this kind of calibration) should not be a concern since the plug-in can calculate the corrections needed based on the most well-perceived frequencies in a relative fashion. I am sure that this would work quite well for me, being a user of your headphone correction software and owner of decent quality headphones. Such a feature, I believe, will make my work a lot easier and enjoyable, and based on my understanding I think that it should be an easy task to implement in your software.

Please consider it,

thank you!

Nikos Delidimitriou January 17, 2017 11:26

I saw that other users requested something similar, and I would like to point out that if this becomes a function of the reference plug-in, it will certainly be more beneficial than having hearing loss compensation applied on individual headphone calibration and that's because some people (like me) have fluctuating hearing loss on specific frequencies, and that will require re-measurements from time to time.

Joris Vandeberg May 25, 2017 14:43

I could not agree more. To be a really good and flexible solution it should be integrated in the plugin in the way Nikos suggested.

Nicholas McCamy March 11, 2018 18:26

Great idea!

Dana Newhouse March 13, 2018 13:03

This is a wonderful idea!

Erik Häusler November 13, 2018 13:25

Very good idea indeed!

Please excuse my present lack of insight:

Any hearing tests delivering outcome data the good people at Sonarworks could use?

I mean, if we'd deliver our hearing profile in a common data format it would potentially take some workload off Sonarwork's shoulders, right?

Suggestions?

Kārlis Stenders November 14, 2018 07:58 (Edited November 14, 2018 07:58)

Hi!

Definitely a good idea and we are already working on this! The project is in early stages so we can't give away too much, but this is one of the things we're putting a fair chunk of research and development into!

Nikos Delidimitriou January 22, 2019 08:26

That's great! What I'd like to see in that is an option to apply the eq curve to a configurable extent up to a maximum of something like 8 or 10 dbs of correction (I think if it goes beyond that it may be hurtful to the ears and we wouldn't even know it!).

Dávon Sedoc August 18, 2019 17:47

Yes, yes, yes!

Ulf Svensson October 26, 2020 12:55

Very good

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