Per Bolmstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have significant hearing loss in my left ear, so music >> tends to sound wrong without using a balance control. > >Just out of curiousity, why and how does lowering the volume of one channel >help? > >I ask because my left ear has been silent (dead hearing nerve) for 20 >years. I tend to use monophonic sound whenever possible, if anything. >That removes the strange stereo effects which only puzzle me. :-)
Well, in your case, lowering one channel would make no sense! :) Your "lucky" as you can save the file size, and just go with mono MP3s. I have about 80% hearing loss in my left ear (from a childhood infection,) but is almost completely correctable with the proper balance control. After testing, lowering the right channel about 70% (30% of original) gives me proper balance again. Why lower the right channel, and not just lower the left? Because most music is at or near 100% peaks already, and raising the left channel would just give me *extreme* clipping. I did a test CD with the 70% right channel reduction, and it sounds fantastic! Now if someone would be kind enough to add the feature to LAME (even as an unofficial, undocumented feature!) I did the tests by manually lowering the volume with a sound editor before encoding. -- BRENT - The Usenet typo king. :) Fast Times At Ridgemont High Info http://www.FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh.org Voted #87 - American Film Institute's Top 100 Funniest American Films _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
