| one thing to keep in mind is that hearing, like all sensory processes, is a marriage of the physiological (the ear) with the psychological (the brain). the brain will adjust beautifully to deviations in the hardware.
if you get your ears cleaned professionally, everything sounds excessively bright and sibilant when you leave the office. wind is shrill, car keys tinkle unnaturally. by the next morning, everything sounds 'normal' again, because your brain has RTA'd to the new transducer response curve.
so if you want to change your hearing, you have to 'train' it slowly over time. it's the only way to overcome the brain's obsessive desire for homeostasis. listen to that doors mix every day, two sessions a day, at a volume that is comfortable; a session is one pass normal, one pass with the headphones reversed, one pass normal again, one pass reversed again. i'd bet good money that at the end of two weeks the differences between your ears will be *significantly* reduced.
it is interesting that everyone has some intuitive sense of which ear hears 'correctly' and which does not, because any such assessment is purely arbitrary. maybe your bad ear is actually the good one. maybe neither one is.
my right ear is less sensitive in the air band, and center images seem to skew left for me. i can hear a .5db adjustment on a channel eq in a dense mix, but i have difficulty placing things left to right in a stereo field. my friend, otoh, has difficulty hearing subtle eq changes, but can spot panning and phase anomolies a mile away. go figure!
gregoire
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