05-07-2014, 03:01 PM
Oddly enough, I AM a young man and had my hearing tested recently because I take a medication that causes reversible (upon discontinuation) tinnitus in some people... And I heard frequencies up to 17.something kH, which is far better than average even for my age.
I'm well aware of the high frequency content of the mix, but the fact that it's not making me uncomfortable has nothing to do with hearing loss, I assure you... And my monitoring is significantly toppier than yours, I imagine.
There is some compression that's fatiguing for me, personally, but I generally choose not to mention that unless it's extreme because to a point that's a matter of taste, and I prefer less compression than most modern listeners.
However, as I've noted many times on various mixes of this song, there is some very severe comb filtering on the rhythm guitars that's quite obvious to me, so I'm sure you can hear it, too, and I'm willing to bet that's fatiguing you more than anything else. Bandpass the low mids and then the upper mids and you'll see what I mean. Not one mix I've heard (including yours) has introduced a 100 percent satisfactory solution to the problem... But that's because there isn't one. It's a duff recording, and nobody's going to be able to get those acoustics to an appropriate level without fatigue resulting from the near constant, super distracting tonal modulations that are occurring exactly where our ears are the most sensitive.
So we do what we can with what we're given... And fix what we can and have the courage to accept there are some things we can't, and printed-on comb filtering is by and large one of those things.
No beef, but it's a point worth making. If you could be a little more specific as to what you think is fatiguing you, your observations would be a lot more valuable.
I'm well aware of the high frequency content of the mix, but the fact that it's not making me uncomfortable has nothing to do with hearing loss, I assure you... And my monitoring is significantly toppier than yours, I imagine.
There is some compression that's fatiguing for me, personally, but I generally choose not to mention that unless it's extreme because to a point that's a matter of taste, and I prefer less compression than most modern listeners.
However, as I've noted many times on various mixes of this song, there is some very severe comb filtering on the rhythm guitars that's quite obvious to me, so I'm sure you can hear it, too, and I'm willing to bet that's fatiguing you more than anything else. Bandpass the low mids and then the upper mids and you'll see what I mean. Not one mix I've heard (including yours) has introduced a 100 percent satisfactory solution to the problem... But that's because there isn't one. It's a duff recording, and nobody's going to be able to get those acoustics to an appropriate level without fatigue resulting from the near constant, super distracting tonal modulations that are occurring exactly where our ears are the most sensitive.
So we do what we can with what we're given... And fix what we can and have the courage to accept there are some things we can't, and printed-on comb filtering is by and large one of those things.
No beef, but it's a point worth making. If you could be a little more specific as to what you think is fatiguing you, your observations would be a lot more valuable.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!