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You might try earplugs. There are nice sets that are made for concerts that preserve the tone, they just reduce the volume (and background noise). Even regular

by orev 4y ago

You might try earplugs. There are nice sets that are made for concerts that preserve the tone, they just reduce the volume (and background noise). Even regular foam ones work pretty well. You can still hear people close to you, as they mainly take care of the background noise.

teeray 4y ago
For loud bar earplugs, you’d probably want ones that would blunt lows and highs pretty aggressively, but preserve a band around 2.5 khz. I attended a presentation from Bob Heil about EQing for understandability on HF, and that was more-or-less his recommendation.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
  Yup, just filtering out everything except the old-school telephone frequency range will make human voices much more intelligible in a noisy environment. EQ alone is quite primitive though compared to the computing power that we have available. If you're capturing audio from both ears, it wouldn't be hard to filter out anything other than directly in front of you. If you're sitting across a table from someone in a loud restaurant, you could let all the audio in normally, vibe to the music, but duck the volume on all the background noise when a human voice is detected directly in front of you.
  - teeray 4y ago
    Doppler Labs[0] was getting there with their Here buds. I have a pair that I miss dearly at concerts (they were sadly bricked when the company shut down and yanked their iOS app). They didn’t do “virtual sidechaining” like you describe, but possibly could have with the DSPs in the earbuds. I’d love to find a replacement for them. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_Labs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_Labs
    - the_third_wave 4y ago
      Just get yourself an Android device and install the app on it: https://m.apkpure.com/here-one/com.dopplerlabs.hereone https://m.apkpure.com/here-one/com.dopplerlabs.hereone Run it through VirusTotal if you're in sight about the APK's provenance, Don't let this type of planned obsolescence rule your access to your devices. That is, assuming the app works without some sort of cloudy backing - but then I guess it should of it was to be used in places where network access can be spared or non-existent?
  - eru 4y ago
    > EQ alone is quite primitive though compared to the computing power that we have available. If you're capturing audio from both ears, it wouldn't be hard to filter out anything other than directly in front of you. It's not quite a walk in the park, because you only have very small latency budgets.

by orev 4y ago

teeray 4y ago

For loud bar earplugs, you’d probably want ones that would blunt lows and highs pretty aggressively, but preserve a band around 2.5 khz. I attended a presentation from Bob Heil about EQing for understandability on HF, and that was more-or-less his recommendation.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
Yup, just filtering out everything except the old-school telephone frequency range will make human voices much more intelligible in a noisy environment. EQ alone is quite primitive though compared to the computing power that we have available. If you're capturing audio from both ears, it wouldn't be hard to filter out anything other than directly in front of you. If you're sitting across a table from someone in a loud restaurant, you could let all the audio in normally, vibe to the music, but duck the volume on all the background noise when a human voice is detected directly in front of you.
- teeray 4y ago
  Doppler Labs[0] was getting there with their Here buds. I have a pair that I miss dearly at concerts (they were sadly bricked when the company shut down and yanked their iOS app). They didn’t do “virtual sidechaining” like you describe, but possibly could have with the DSPs in the earbuds. I’d love to find a replacement for them. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_Labs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_Labs
  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    Just get yourself an Android device and install the app on it: https://m.apkpure.com/here-one/com.dopplerlabs.hereone https://m.apkpure.com/here-one/com.dopplerlabs.hereone Run it through VirusTotal if you're in sight about the APK's provenance, Don't let this type of planned obsolescence rule your access to your devices. That is, assuming the app works without some sort of cloudy backing - but then I guess it should of it was to be used in places where network access can be spared or non-existent?
- eru 4y ago
  > EQ alone is quite primitive though compared to the computing power that we have available. If you're capturing audio from both ears, it wouldn't be hard to filter out anything other than directly in front of you. It's not quite a walk in the park, because you only have very small latency budgets.