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bollemanneke
7th October 2022, 14:49
Hello everyone! Am I glad I remembered this forum. I am in need of your good counsel.

Two years ago, my right eardrum inexplicably partially burst. I had surgery to close the hole, but of course my ear wouldn’t recover like a normal one and it got stuck at around 80% of the process. The low frequencies have come back, but the higher ones didn’t. So to put it in context, the s and t sound rather vague in speech, while the ‘ticking’ sounds of a harpsichord are nearly inaudible, but a double bass is no problem.

I just had a hearing aid adjustment, but it sounds rather unnatural and truth be told, I’m just tired of messing around with a hearing aid at the age of 29 and I only need it for listening/watching things on my Windows computer anyway.

So I was wondering: is there a simple equalizer that I can use to boost these frequencies on just the right channel? I say simple because my braille display sometimes struggles with fancy-looking programs.

I’ve tried APO or something, but that didn’t come through at all and it seemed overly complicated anyway. Also, more problematically, it kept turning off my amazing built-in Dolby Atmos normalise settings, which I really love.

So basically, I’m looking for a way to increase the high frequencies on the right channel only without that program interfering with anything else. Preferably in a GUI and not through complicated Notepad instructions. Ideally for every sound my pc produces, but only in Media Player Classic would be fine too.

tebasuna51
8th October 2022, 10:15
- When play from PC with MPC (or similar) you can send the audio track passtrough or decoded. If is send passtrough (forced for Atmos or DTS:X, or selected for AC3,DTS,EAC3,TrueHD or DTS-MA) only the AVR can do the job. If always is decoded you can add external filters, maybe the AC3 Filter. (https://www.videohelp.com/software/AC3-Filter)

- For only music stereo you have Foobar2000 and the component Equalizer split (https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_eqsplit)