A sound engineers’ hearing is their most important and vulnerable tool. Many professions within the music industry are considered a risk group for sound induced hearing disorders, but there is not much research specifically about how sound engineers hearing suffers from exposure. Hearing disorders not widely talked about within the audio community either, there seems to be some stigma around the subject. The main research questions for this study are: How does a known or unknown hearing disorder impact mixing decisions and what views are there within the AES community, and from professionals, on how to manage and highlight hearing disorders? This study uses an interview and a panel discussion to answer questions about how professionals deal with the subject and a mixing test to find out how hearing disorders, known or unknown, affect mixing techniques. In the mixing test, 12 participants were asked to make three mixes. Each mix with a different scenario, once with instruction to mix normally, once with a filter imitating a hearing disorder but with no different instructions and once with a similar filter imitating the same disorder but with instructions that there was a filter. The results from the study show that mixing strategies change when informed of a hearing disorder, but it does not necessarily mean that the mixers will be able to counteract the spectral difference. The interview and panel discussion showed that there is a prominent fear within the community that when you have a disorder, you will be disqualified from working. However, all the professionals agreed that you can continue working and become successful despite having a hearing disorder.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ltu-84626 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Rothstein, Rebecka |
| Publisher | Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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