For those who cant undertsand, some people can be mostly deaf but still have some hearing just not enough to carry conversations, safely hear danger coming, hear a phone ring, ect. When you get cochlear implants, you often lose any remaining hearing that you have, so even mostly deaf people can hear music at a loud concert and feel the vibrations and have a good time. After cochlear implants you literally have to relearn how you hear. its not an instant 100% "cure". for a long time, everything sounded robotic to people with implants, and then technology got better. Hopefully, one day her brain will make all the proper connections and she'll get the best results from her cochlear implants, but its gonna take time.
What do you mean ‘again’? If you can hear… why do you need an implant?? Or how how did having a CI ruined music for this chick when music couldn’t be heard in the first place?
@@wheresmyparade people can lose hearing? And in this girl's case, deaf people can still enjoy music!! From what I've seen they listen to songs with a lot of bass. Many deaf creators have talked about it so I recommend searching it up!! Before they got the cochlear implant it must have been a completely different experience so it's natural for her to be disappointed
My high school band director was deaf. He had cochlear implants so he could hear, but any time we were about to rehearse he would put this headband on that connected to his temples. I asked him what it was one day and he said the headband was some kind of bone conduction thing that allowed him to hear that he got when he was a kid. The headband caused lots of problems so he eventually got cochlear implants, but the headband was the first thing he ever heard music with, and the implants just never sounded the same, so even all those years later when he was ready to listen to music he had to put the headband on or it wouldn’t sound right. I always think about that.
Wow! This man's journey must have been crazy .. facing deafness from childhood only to end up as a band director! Must have been a story full of dedication and love for music, I would jump to read his autobiography
@@GhassanB he really was an incredible guy with an incredible life story! I remember him telling me the first time he was able to hear was in 4th grade, and from the moment he first heard music he wanted to be a musician himself. He Immediately started playing the trombone and practiced for hours every day - which is where the problem with the headband came in. The headband vibrated slightly when it heard sound, so him wearing it all day at school and then coming home and practicing loud music made it vibrate so hard that his head would start to bleed. He loved music so much he would play until he physically couldn’t handle the pain anymore. The cochlear implants changed his life because then he could wear them most of the day and use the headband just for music, so it didn’t hurt most of the time. As an adult he had little divots on the side of his head from where he wore the headband all his life.
@@awesomeguysuncle yeah they were super weird. He let some of us kids put it on to see what it was like and I could feel the sound of people speaking around me coming from inside my own skull
@@TheOtherBoobJustDropped thanks for giving more of the story, that's really inspiring! I'm a musician of 12 years and I love music so much It's a huge part of my life, but I can't imagine myself in these circumstances, and I don't believe I would have been as strong and dedicated to grow a passion that I felt so distant from. I'm sure that his class was wonderful, a passionate teacher makes all the difference! I also played trombone in middle school band, I never stuck with it, but I can imagine how the bell vibrating right by your head can be so effective with something like that head band (also I feel cool for having smth in common with him :D)
Hey! My girlfriends mum had cochlear implants put in about a year ago and she had to re-learn EVERYTHING! But now she hears birds, and can dance and listen to ABBA again! She hated it at first, she got migraines all the time, everyone sounded like "daleks" to her and it was a constant sensory overload. She is doing so so much better, after a horrible turn around when it stopped working after getting ill.
I love daleks and having a few people in my life who sound like daleks would be hilarious... but EVERYONE sounding like a dalek sounds like actual torture
I agree with the adjustments. My buddy had one growing up. Our first concert he was really bummed out cuz of similar issues. He and his parents did some research and found out they can be tuned/adjusted. Next summer at the next concert, he couldn't get enough 😅
@@kristaleeraffaelli5858unfortunately she’s known about this plenty and has hundreds of comments rehashing this same thing- she’s even posted videos of her getting adjustments . the main thing here she’s trying to convey is that sometimes, the sensory overload on the brain from trying to process new sounds like that is too much to handle despite everything you do . Maybe science will understand further in the future but some human factors just simply can’t be accounted for and it’s a frustrating experience she wanted to share .
My dad is deaf, and I’m a music lover and a musician. The passion gap between us has always made me sad, but he has always loved loud bass. If you’ve ever seen CODA he was just like that, bumping rap to make his ass shake. I picked up the Bass as a 13 year old, and my dad can sit on my amp and feel what I’m playing. He even bought me a huge 200w amp for my graduation way back when. So glad I can share my passion with my dad ❤
Lets ve hinest he bought hi.self that amp to enjoy time with you speaking as a dad i buy my daughter shit thats actualy for me all the time its how we get time we put ourself as the path to something you want
This sounds the way music from afar at a concert sounds like, like when you're walking towards a live music venue from the parking lot. I hope it can be adjusted somehow and you get to enjoy music again❤
I've noticed some who had and lost hearing say this is an issue at first but my daughter who was born deaf and doesn't know what natural hearing is doesn't seem t8 gave the same struggle hers is in other issues. Keep with it and hopefully you will enjoy it again soon. ❤
You do know the music we are hearing isnt showcasing what shes hearing right? Thats literally just the audio from phone she said its sound like beeping to her. Or something like that. Obviously she cant show is what shes hearing.
I work in a factory that makes these, it’s really cool to see them in action! It reminds me that no matter how hard or frustrating the work is, that I can help improve peoples’ lives in an albeit indirect way ❤
Just listening as a hearing person, there’s a lot of whine that comes off speakers on live shows that sound to me like the screech everyone knows as tinnitus. That’s probably ruining the sounds on the implant as it’s to high a pitch. You might see if they can tune it to block that upper range of sound out so it’s less messed up? We use equalizers to better balance the range of sounds in music. Apps like Spotify have equalizer options for extra bass or for acoustic & such. Maybe see if there’s any settings that can be created or used for your cochlear maybe? Live music is like nails on chalkboard though since no once knows how to manage it really. They just think loud = nice sounds.
@@Unaligned_Ant yeah, but they aren’t explaining why it’s a problem or what’s probably happening. It’s just ‘go to doctor’. She doesn’t know how a speaker sounds or that the robotic sound is something we experience. Even worse it might be allowing her to hear sounds we can’t because they’re so high pitched.
@@sherlogic1256 I saw quite a few who explained it. But even just the people saying "go to your doctor" are correct, because the doctor will know how to fix it even if the OP doesn't. The doctor who installed/manages the cochlear is an audiologist, so just by simply going to that doctor and saying "music is ruined and sounds like beeps" the doctor will know that the equalizer needs to be re-calibrated. You're not wrong, but none of them are wrong either.
You're so right about that last part. Live music is almost always too loud to enjoy and the balance of highs lows mids sucks. Like you said they just think louder is better without taking into account that high pitches are the ones that stick out the most.
@@Unaligned_Antshe never said they are wrong. And also, a lot of live music sounds like trash even from artists you like or if it’s a song you love. Especially comparing it to a well produced version of the song. Unfortunately a lot of artists are trash with AMAZING producers working literal miracles for them.
Definitely ask about adjustments! Don't worry, this isn't the end of live music- it's just a really good reason to speak to your audiologist/hearing health professional again! Your quality of life should be their focus ❤
@@nothingsurprisesmeanymore thats the saddest thing ive ever heard and also incorrect. Do you have speakers the size of your body for bass and treble? an engineer live mixing ur songs to sound perfect on ur laptop speakers or 10$ skullcrush headphones. Then, can you enjoy a festival, feel the real life energy etc. like the music is one thing but a live event makes it real. what would club, metal, techno/rave/ orchestra/ rap and so on and so on be without gritty undergound concerts. sorry m8 ur comment struck a chord
@@nothingsurprisesmeanymore Live music has a performance factor attached to it. The crowd is hyped, the vocalists show their talent live (Maurice White or Axl Rose always sounded better live on microphone), and my favorite - live drums are just awesome with solos, medleys and different drum beats than in studio songs. And that's why people go to concerts...
@@landonsss8114 I am more competent at setting my EQ at home than most FOH engineers at shows I've been to. Live shows don't sound nearly as good as studio recordings. The experience of being disappointed by live music after cochlear implants is the exact same as the experience of a hearing person attending their first live show. I know people who explore the venue to find where it sounds least muddy, and they spend the whole show in the bathroom or near the loading doors or something. People don't go to live shows to hear music.
I’m deaf, but went deaf as an adult so loved music. I can’t have CI’s as I’m not allowed the surgery for vascular reasons. I still enjoy live music with BSL interpreters. I can request them for any show and they’re amazing. I can feel the beat from the vibrations and the interpreters fill in the rest. They do so much more than just sign the words, they tell me the emotion and best of the song. They tell me what the instrumental is like (guitar, drum, mixed etc) and also any speaking done too. Shows are still super enjoyable with them
@@everydaycompress4259please, look up sign language interpreters of live music! they're incredibly skilled not only in their speed but also in the emotions they can show through it. for a while, there were a few videos of interpreters at eminem concerts going viral for their energy in their work. i'm sure there's a video of WAP being translated, but if there aren't, maybe try looking the eminem videos up if you're curious!
This is super interesting. I’m super happy that you’re not letting a massive lifestyle change stop you from doing the things you love. Out of interest what are your favourite shows that you’ve been too? (Also replying to that other comment WAP is a song by Cardi B and Meghan Thee Stallion about certain parts of their body to which they describe as quite damp. WAP stands for (I’m gonna use emojis here to try and maintain some dignity) 💦🍑🐱)
Ask about adjustments!! I can't imagine how heart broken you must have felt in this moment, but I hope they can figure it out for you!! I hope you get to hear the music ❤️
I’m getting this comment a lot, of course I’ve gotten it adjusted at the audiologist and even have videos showing me doing so… The brain just can’t magically process sounds it’s never heard and it’s frustrating comments don’t understand that. It’s been almost a year since this video, live music despite adjustments the CI just headache inducing and mushes a lot of instruments/frequencies together. I do enjoy music privately with Bluetooth💜
@@ChrissyMarshall_ damn, I'm sorry babe, I didn't mean to make things more frustrating. Again, I will never have the ability to understand what you feel, at least not in the near future, I just hoped that my comment might help. After seeing all the comments that say the same as mine, I get that too. But one thing I learned after having babies with special needs, is that science comes a long way, in a short time. I hope they figure it out for you.
@@ChrissyMarshall_Wow. I don't know what you're going through, and I don't think I could comprehend it even if I knew. I hope things get better for you, and I'm sorry that things turned out this way.
Im not ear specialist but am a fairly competent sound engineer. It’s my understanding that your implant will have a set number of inputs channels directly into your inner ear (usually 22, however I assume this depends on the quality of the implant itself), in sound terms this means you’re limited to only hearing 22 narrow bands of the frequency spectrum (likely grouped around the 500hz to 12khz region as this is where almost all human communication will take place. Now how you might approach improving this limitation. 1. Research how graphic EQ’s work, this is effectively what you have sitting in your ear. 2. Determine whether the channel bands on your eq are able to be modulated to different frequencies (likely not something made easy in order to avoid amateur tampering with the device). 3. If they can you should be able to spread the bands out between a more reasonable music range (50hz - 16/17khz should work nicely, lower frequencies you’ll feel and higher ones will likely distort such a small processor very badly). Hope there’s something here that helps you. Sucks your hearings bad, but on the bright side you’ve got a great excuse to learn about audio now which I think is pretty damn cool. Happy listening.
This is amazing.. you literally brought me to tears and the only thing I can think of as to why I started crying because if you know me I'm a pretty tough chic and it takes a lot to make me cry. I have very thick skin. I like being sarcastic so I dish it but I can take it too! Lol anyways the fact that you have this incredible knowledge that not everyone easily understands frequency and sound and how it works and you genuinely not only explained to make it understandable but then gave suggestions to help make it better for her. Since we are finding out the elites has been lying to us and keeping real education away from the masses. But that's another topic... anyways it was the way the information was given I guess... this is what we need more of!! ❤
Damn bro ur like the hero every comment section needs u explained what was happening were positive and shared a passion all in one comment ion even got bad hearing and I was like shit maybe I can do audio
Hey, I have cochlear implants biannually myself and frequently go to concerts. I even make my own music now! Time and the willingness to learn how to hear with your processor is all you need. You will notice a change, it will not be an instant click though. I’ve had my implants since 2014 and I’ve been putting them on in the morning and leaving them in until I go to bed. I always try to expose myself to new sounds and music when I can. The more you hear, the stronger your new ears get. One day, live music will sound like you remember
Dude I'm sorry I don't know what I expected when I clicked on your channel to find your music, but it actually blew me away! If you hadn't told me you were a deaf artist making music I never would've known. I listened to "through the rain", and it's very pleasing. Hoping for the best for you. Edit: went back and listened to second chance v6 and love it! Subscribed.
@@slax4884 Well I was born Hard of Hearing and always had hearing aids. I could understand music fairly well then but when I lost all my hearing in both ears around the age of 8. I was Deaf without any aid until I was 12, I learned a lot in those 4 years and I vividly remember thinking, "Man, I really miss music. I will do anything to be able to hear a tune again..." Fortunately, my parents and family helped raised money to get me cochlear implants in both of my ears just so I could hear again. Here I am now making music and chasing a dream of mine to pursue music as a career :)
I have terrible tinnitus, I feel your pain with any hearing issues, sometimes it kinda fades and everything sounds so clear it's overwhelming and brings me to tears
dito! i have three different tones and i can't even remember how it was without them that i even claim to always have had them. and tbh i have no idea, whether it's true or not. but it defenitely feels like it. plus I'm loosing hearing slowly. i can't fathom being deaf and having to hear the tinnitus all day long without any way to get away from it
@@Schrumpelkartoffelalways wear your hear protection and be careful of noises. I have a lot of hearing loss in one ear and recently the ringing started in the other ear and I have hearing loss in it now. Sometimes being deaf in one ear is nice, but I sure do miss the sound of the wind and stereo hearing. After significant hearing loss I have to sort of relearn how to hear again. At first it is no vowels then its the other sounds. I tell people to enunciate instead of speaking louder. It helps me a lot.
so sorry for you, its ok man, everybody gotta struggle with some sh*t.. for me life without proper music would be devastating - u r a true soul and i wish u the best
You’re life is not ruined. I’m 100% deaf and wear the same cochlear implants as the person in the video. I’ve learnt to live with it and the fact I can hear music is incredible. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced music with actual hearing because I was born deaf. Music is awesome. It may be hard to get used to at the beginning but you’ll learn to love your hearing for the better!
I'm actually grateful that I only have a hearing aid. I used to want cochlear implants but after knowing people who have them that go through this I feel relieved and also bad for them at the same time. I guess it's 50/50 for both. But I'm happy I can take my hearing aid out when there's feedback or I'm overwhelmed and can just enjoy the music
Yeah, I opted for hearing aids myself, they tried to get me to get them but when I said how much I love music they warned me about this. I have reverse slope hearing loss and really no hearing aid sadly is meant for it so it’s been a lot of adjustments and still nothing sounds quite right but it’ll get better!
I don't understand why it's so bad, the live music through the CIs. Is it that she can hear it normally, but before she could feel it & it's just a completely different experience, or something else? I'm just missing what's so disappointing about it & how a heating aid is different, can you explain like I'm five? 😊
@zzevonplant in another concert someone said you can still have some hearing before you get CIs and when you get them you lose what you had so things sound different.
You guys could turn this into a weekly book club and I'd still tune in. Your commentary and chemistry is just second to none. Looking forward to this series even if I can't be named after a Parental Bond Jolteon in this one! Best of luck fathers!
My mom was one of the first to undergo the first cochlear implant. She had to wear a control box on a belt and change out AA batteries all the time. Technology has come a long way since then. Now she wears the same unit you have. She has to take it off in certain situations like that too. Seeing the technology from where it was to where it is now gives me hope that the next generation will have those problems figured out.
My uncle was a celebrity spokesperson essentially for cochlear implants and I remember as a child how many issues he’d have with it. Things have come a long way!
When you say next generation, you really mean the next generation and not the current one. Because the current generation has more air inside their skulls than grey matter. 🙄
I had cochlear implants done in 2021, I have two Kanso 2s. If you’re not hearing better than you used to and if sound doesn’t sound normal after 6 months from your operation, your audiologists did something wrong and you need to go back for tuning. I’m not sure how it works In the US but I didn’t pay a penny for my surgery and I hear so much better now. After about 4 months of tuning, sound sounds normal and better than it did before (I had hearing aids for 15 years)
I got a cochlear implant at 21 and I went to lots of live music events before with two hearing aids, and I agree somewhat. However a few years have passed now and I do appreciate being able to actually talk to friends if they try talk in my ear, and I can hear songs with more clarity. Being closer to the speakers helps a lot to make it so you can feel the music, and I find watching instruments being played help me a lot too
@@haterule I have single sided deafness. It makes me hear sounds and gives me a sense of direction . It cant compare to the good ear though it's a very unpleasant experience to try to listen to music . I imagine if the other ear goes and I have to have the other ear implant id develop the same appreciation for music cause our brains will adjust to the new signals .Or I hope anyway
@@prdeereman Same! One deaf ear (my left) which is fairly mild hearing loss, but although my hearing aid can give me a sense of ambience, it all sounds like the worst microphone and speaker in existence...
@@silver_crystal if you have any hearing left take care of it cause I wish what I hear was that good . I wish had the the ability to describe the difference . I'm an older man with a very limited vocabulary. Whatever it takes to keep that bad ear at that level do it ! The 2 sounds are different and not even complimentary . I see the value of CI in completely deaf people as total value. The single sided value in my life is strictly to "aid" in a sense of sound direction and it provides some tinnitus relief.
Aww girl I’m so sorry this happened :( there’s all these helpful comments, I don’t have any experience but I feel so bad. I hope you can enjoy music in new ways ❤
This is very sad and the doctor should have very thoroughly explained this (and hopefully did). At best, you're getting a couple dozen of the hundreds upon hundreds of audio frequencies a human can normally hear. As such, tone becomes very hard to distinguish. Bass and timber almost fade together in a sense because the sound processor can only stimulate so many sections of the cochlea. It's like trying to complete a 100 peice puzzle with only 10 of the peices. You can try and guess what the image is after you're done putting those ten in place, but it'll never be whole. This is why CIs are good for at least letting people communicate in a way they're familiar with but will never be the best substitution. My hope is to move beyond the cochlear implants and develop a replicant cochlea or at least something that's a very close approximation. Bypassing the natural Cochlea and going straight to the brain will be the best option eventually. The simple fact of the matter is no matter how small our tech gets, full stimulation of the Cochlea, using CI technology, will simply never happen before an alternative is viable. I hope this helps some people understand a little better what a CI actually sounds like and am by no means diminishing your struggle.
My children have a younger sister via their dad who is fully deaf in one ear and more than 50% deaf in the other ear. She's 4 now and just mainstreamed into a regular elementary school after attending preschool at the Presbyterian Hearing Institute here in our city for 2 years. She's incredible ... Her coping skills are PHENOMENAL. She speaks mostly clearly (I say that because I believe her lisp is more because her Mom speaks with one then as a result of her hearing.) My favorite thing about her is when she's done with all the noise ... she takes her hearing aid off, plugs it up, and ignores the world. 🥰😂 Her parents are thinking about getting her a cochlear implant ... and for whatever reason it makes me nervous. She absolutely HATES the doctor at this point ... and I wonder if 1) the procedure is overly and/or unnecessarily invasive and 2) how will it impact her short and long-term. Your comment helps ME a lot ... we attack the information as far as the children go ... in a village type way in our family. This is good information. Thank you for sharing. Truly.
@CynthiaAgnes-Renfro-mo4xh I'm very glad I could help! 😁 as far as the procedures invasiveness, it is an invasive surgery (medically speaking). However, it's also completely removable with another surgery, so it's not the most invasive thing in the world like Elons brain chips. The long-lasting implications are there, and I'll list a few along with a website with some more good information. The primary one will be anything passing an electrical current through the body (I.E. those prank gum containers that shock you, Van Der Graaf generator cannot be touched in science class, electro-static balls (the ones that make your hair stand up) are hit or miss but should be avoided, electric fences ect.) Next major thing would be avoiding major bumps and knocks to the head without at least a helmet (martial arts, BMX, contact sports ect.). So both are things you would normally do anyway, but with electrical currents, you do need to be a bit more careful. This is a UK resource on things you need to either talk to the doctor about when getting the implant or things you need to be careful with when you have one. It's not a comprehensive list, but it's all good info to have before talking to the doctor. www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/audiology/north-east-regional-cochlear-implant-programme/adults/living-with-your-cochlear-implant/what-must-i-avoid-now-i-have-a-cochlear-implant/
"full stimulation of the Cochlea, using CI technology, will simply never happen before an alternative is viable." This would probably be a good time for you to look up optical CIs.
thanks so much for making this video it helped me a lot i starting having hearing loss at 21 last year and was feeling sad and discouraged because i am a singer and love to sing this video helped me a ton❤
Im so sorry and I hear it can get better, so Im just going to pray and manifest that for you every day and check your channel for happy news. This makes me so sad!
Tweak your implant settings with your audiologist's help for concert mode. Look for cool accessories like FM systems or remote mics to amp up your experience. Grab musician's earplugs for safety without losing the music vibe. Choose seats near speakers or away from super loud spots. Let the venue know about your implants; they might have neat accommodations. Cochlear implants are awesome but not perfect. Keep trying these tips with your audiologist for concert success! 🤘😄
it's new, it can be anxiety inducing & extremely overwhelming. one of my best friends said it takes a long long while, & u may never like it but thats okay! theres always alternatives that can be just as fun 💓
Keep your head up darlin, these good folks are here to remind you that you will get that hearing back one day soon enough. They have been through the same thing. 💪🏼
Damn I teared up and I realized how grateful I am to be able to hear normally… I hope something satisfies her heart the same way music does because idk what I would do without it. 😭
My cousin would play the music through her bluetooth when she went to live shows; she admitted it was a little disappointing not being able to 100% understand what it was like, but she also did say that she felt that as long as she could hear the music and see the show, she was happy. she got really damn good at timing the songs to play when they started playing live music.
Woke up about two months ago and didn’t have hearing in my right ear like I used to. I did everything under the sun, saw specialists, took oral and drop meds and nothing. It’s gone. I feel you queen, my heart breaks when I see the pain in your face. Stay strong.
Music is literally what keeps me alive. This video is my biggest fear come to realization. I hope you got those fixed and somehow found a way to enjoy music again.
you see someone crying about not being able to hear music and for some reason you make it about yourself and how you would die without music…….. 0 emotional intelligence
@@aIysssayou see someone resonate with the poster (empathy BTW) and who also wishes them well in resolving the issue, yet on top of that you make your own assumptions. Who hurt you? Do better.
Watch the movie " it's all gone Pete tong" about a famous dj that goes completely deaf and has to learn how to live his life without music. It's a great movie.
@@aIysssaright, yeah, the person empathising with a stranger has less emotional intelligence than someone dunking on a stranger for no reason. If this is the new you you’ve chosen for this year then send her back we don’t want her
I lost my hearing when I was 26, however since then I have learned how to interpret the world around me using vibrations. I use vibrations to understand speech, play online games with others, even to know if a truck or someone pulls into the driveway. Other things help, but I have been described as a child when I go to bed. Playing music at night lulls me to sleep like a car ride does for a baby.
@@NickMothershed They are unsure how it happened, everything seemed to be fine. However, they can't check the nerves. You have what's called the Temponic Membrane past your inner ear, on top of that their are hair cells that stick up. When Vibrations enter the ear, they move the Temponic Membrane against another nerve in such a precise way, and the hair cells move across another nerve creating electrical signals that are sent to your brain telling you what sound is what. My hair cells are laying down, so while vibrations enter and move the Temponic Membrane, the hair cells can't make any signals to send to my brain. The only thing the Dr.'s can agree on, I got shingles at a young age, afterwards my hearing just stopped working. Shingles have a possibility to cause nerve damage. They believe this was the culprit.
@@TehButterflyEffect Talk about getting a rise out of someone. It's a bit more complicated for me. Hearing people use a variety of muscles that turn vibration into electrical signals. Unfortunately for me, this muscle doesn't work, so I use my hands and body to feel what's going on around me. Don't be stupid, I have a Masters in Biology, I know what I'm talking about about and how the human body hears sound. I just use my hands instead of my ears
I just want to send a supportive virtual hug to her. Let her know to give herself grace hopefully sooner then later it won’t be overwhelming for her. I’m born with my hearing but I’m sound sensitive live concerts overwhelm me too.
What brand CI? From what I've read, the sound of music can be improved with a great deal of targeted rehab, but outcomes vary. I'm a music lover who was implanted last week. I'm ready to do the work, but also am aware that results can vary greatly between CI users. Hope over time it gets better for you!
@@niedzisiaj6645It’s Amoeba, it’s absolutely amazing. It’s been my top song on Spotify for the past 3 years in a row and is just beautiful. The whole Sling album is beautiful and I recommend it 100%. If you don’t listen to all of it, my favorites are (amoeba ofc) but also Partridge, Wade, and Little Changes. I’m sorry for the rant but this album is heavenly.
man it can all be taken away can't it, when i was born i had fucked up legs, somehow over years ive made a full recovery, doctors weren't sure id be able to walk. if things were just ever so slightly different maybe i wouldn't have been so lucky. there are people today who, have all the things that make someone human, they have joy and hope and fears and wishes, but due to cruel fate they can't feel or interact with the world to the full extent, they either have lost some sensory / motor ability or have never been born with it to begin with. it makes me so sad, and they are always the chillest flipping people mate, the perserverence, the fucking brass balls it takes to look at what has been lost and say" oh you think i can't? well guess what I can anyway"
I think I understand how you feel but for a different reason. I recently went to see Hamilton and signed out a t-coil device, and it was defective. The music was fine but I had zero idea what was going on in the story. I'm a grown ass 51 year old veteran but I was so frustrated I was on the verge of tears. I played with the device and my HAs to see if I could troubleshoot but to no avail. At the break I got a replacement and my daughter (about your age actually) gave me a recap of the story and in the second half I was actually able to understand and really enjoyed it. So yea, when you say "Low key devastated"... I totally get that.
I think it sounds static like. So when u listen to it, it sounds more robotish than human. At least this is what my cousin says who has one. I also do hope in the future they fix this.
@@yourlord5972I actually have a CI and it will take some time for your brain to get adjusted to the new sound as it’s stimulates sound using electric signals to your cochlea. Especially if you had recently gotten it activated, depending on the person; it will take a few months up to a year and it will start to sound great but not normal.
Afaik i have normal hearing but my very first concert (Jars of Clay aka not that hard) conpletely maxed out my ear drums and I heard was TV static. I had to stand there with my fingers in my ears for 2 hrs. Always bring ear plugs now. So I cant imagine what that would do to someone with implants. Yuck.
not deaf at all but i adore how everybody who can relate in some manner understood exactly the point and has nothing but advice and kind words for her. this is why i fell at my knees when i discovered the deaf community and why i went out of my way to take it as many times as possible before i graduated
man this breaks my heart for you, I hope it comes to you, it must be overstimulating and overwhelming to you, I can't imagine. Sending good vibes that some day it connects and sounds like music to you so you can enjoy it!
Hi there, I'm a musician and performer who sometimes does large concert venues like festivals. I am also hearing and neurodivergent, so I still use ASL and lip reading. I want to know all about how everyone with the implant usually goes about live music, the stimulation that occurs, and where you are/how you feel when the vibes are right and you can enjoy music. Word vomits welcome, I'll read everyone's response 😊 I just want to make sure I understand, maybe someone's response could help me create shows that are safer for the technology you all are working with.
I'm a Tinnitus and Hiperacusis sufferer the thing is mine is multiplied like 100000x times. I love music, is my life. Unfortunely i cannot perform as i used to but i still try and compose. Never give up no matter the circumstances!
You're a strong woman. Being someone who relies on music to bring me inner and physical peace, distraction from this shit world, and a sense of comfort, I wouldn't be here like you are. If music was ruined then Id quit life
This is so sad! I'm a candidate for CI but decided against it when the doc said he didn't know if it would work for me. After hearing this I'm so glad I didn't go ahead with it!
@@alexanderreiner7694 a person wouldn't be candidate for a ci unless they are severely hearing impaired. For example my daughter had no hearing in her left ear and was losing her hearing in the other ear. She was implanted as soon as she lost almost all her hearing.
My biggest regret with live music is usually buying the ticket in the first place. Ive been to over 200 shows and over 50 festivals and there are less than 10 that i still remember as being completely worth it for the music lol
I got the same mood except I'm not required and quit going to concerts after the 3rd. Good speakers are too cheap to waste time traveling and money on tickets.
I took 2 ASL classes in highschool for a foreign language credit. There we learned about cochlear implants. They do NOT produce a clear sound, they sound very muddy and muffled. What we learned is it is best to get cochlear as young as possible so that way your body and mind adapt easier to the coch
My 12 year old who was implanted bilaterally as a toddler doesn't like music at all really. She likes dancing but not the music itself. She ended up with degenerative hearing loss with auditory neuropathy as a preemie die to the amount of oxygen needed for her survival so she never experienced music (outside of infancy) without hearing aids and then CIs. It was a hard blow to me at the time because I love music but she now has so many ways of expressing herself and her creativity (even with CIs she's still considered profoundly deaf). In the beginning I mourned what I thought should've been but now I realize there was nothing to mourn outside of my own ideals, I have an amazing daughter who is honestly an inspiration to me.
Sorry to hear this for daughter! I have lived my life for 48 years with the same condition but using hear aids with my profound lost. I'm not a big fan of music myself but I have.come to enjoy certain music later in life. We eventually adjust and do our best to fit in though I find myself Solo because either I can't understand what's said or back ground noise is too much. Someday I may have to consider cl doctor tells me I'm destroying the rest of the nerves with the amount of power I need to hear with hearing aids.😢 Hugs and smiles for your daughter!
Patient experiences I have been reading say it can take six months to a year or so for the neuro pathways to adjust to the implants. How long had it been since your surgery?
I was born with about 50% hearing loss in my left ear. I went to an ent specialist when I was about 12 or 13 and cochlear implants were discussed. Doc said I could start seriously considering them when I turned 18. I’m 23 now and I still don’t have one. Either my hearing has gotten better, (my time around race cars, country bars, and firearms makes me doubt that immensely) or I’ve figured out how to adjust to my level of hearing. But I’m not sure if I still need them. I definitely have hearing damage, I’m probably a lot closer to being deaf in my left ear than I realize, but I manage pretty well. This kinda makes me feel like I shouldn’t.
It took my mother a long time to get used to her cochlear. Live music was her goal. She ultimately goes back and forth from regretting to loving to regretting her decision to get them. Talk to your specialist, they may have a solution. My buddy is thinking about getting cochlears and he’s almost 40. I think he’s doing it because a lot of people in our extended friends group have them, and not because he wants ir needs them….We go to a LOT of live music. So I love that you posted this Long story for this question: If you were given the choice all over again, would you still? (I’m not deaf, so I’m always curious peoples personal experience)
I think deaf people are so used to hearing music completely differently (like just the bass and the vibrations) so when they actually hear the actual sound of music it’s hard to process sounds they’ve never heard before and it can just sound like a mess That’s what I got from the comments anyway
The implants are making the music sound like trash....but other people aaid rhere are ways to adjust the implants so its better ...took me a few watches and some comment reading to get this conclusion...but i could be wrong....stay safe everyone! ❤️❤️
Ci therapist/slp here: basically when I have severe hearing loss, many people prefer hearing aids or just sheer volume, as you can still hear all the frequencies that your ear can process, many times lower bass notes and rhythm are perceived more "normally". With a ci u basically reduce all the frequencies you hear to around 20 which makes many things sound robotic, but you get to hear through the whole sound spectrum again, which is amazing for speech, the main target. Music sounds like listening to it through a telephone with very bad reception, just 10 times worse. Music training with CI is doable but usually sits at the very end of your journey, as it's just so many sounds at once and she is from what I can tell not at that stage. Also she might not have access to that kind of therapy as the regulations here are very different, for example here in Germany you get infinite speech/listening therapy, idk how insurance does that in the us, but probably not so you never reach that stage of enjoying the ci. Hope that helps and feel free to ask away
@@thomask3195 thank you so much for providing the perspective of those with implants / hearing aids. It sounds like it's possibly similar to having those really bad cheap earphones. I would be devastated too if the music felt better than it sounds, especially if she had high hopes. Music is such a difficult experience to translate to deaf people (apart from when they can feel it or if they use bone conduction to play the music) - it can be a spiritual experience or one where you want to chuck the whole concept out the window (like if you have sensory issues and the music feels like it's grating against your soul)
Ugh, I may be getting hearing aids soon and a cochlea will probably follow soon after. My hearing loss is degenerative. My woman has a cochlea and a hearing aid and she cannot wear her cochlea at all because of the noise level. Everything you’re going through is tough, my partner and I live it every day. Most people will not understand. But stay strong, and good on you for doing so.
I’m a candidate to get a CI and I’m really confused about getting it and this is one of the small but many questions I have and feel about getting my CI.
My wife has implants. It has been a rough trip these past 10 years, but she’s seeing such growth now and what I’ve been telling her for 10 years is, unlike me, my hearing is getting worse, but hers improves every year. New firmware updates, better processors, better software.
For those who cant undertsand, some people can be mostly deaf but still have some hearing just not enough to carry conversations, safely hear danger coming, hear a phone ring, ect. When you get cochlear implants, you often lose any remaining hearing that you have, so even mostly deaf people can hear music at a loud concert and feel the vibrations and have a good time. After cochlear implants you literally have to relearn how you hear. its not an instant 100% "cure". for a long time, everything sounded robotic to people with implants, and then technology got better. Hopefully, one day her brain will make all the proper connections and she'll get the best results from her cochlear implants, but its gonna take time.
Felt like an a$$ for not understanding 😢 thank you for the information
Whoa this is trippie
I' mean shit it's even the same for some hearing aids. It took me a few weeks to stop hearing the electricity in my hearing aid.
Thx but still confused. Regardless if your body needs time to adjust, can it not be the implants just don’t reproduce sound well?
Thanks now I understand
It took time but one day, suddenly, it was music again. Your brain has to create that bridge.
What do you mean ‘again’? If you can hear… why do you need an implant?? Or how how did having a CI ruined music for this chick when music couldn’t be heard in the first place?
@@wheresmyparade people can lose hearing? And in this girl's case, deaf people can still enjoy music!! From what I've seen they listen to songs with a lot of bass. Many deaf creators have talked about it so I recommend searching it up!! Before they got the cochlear implant it must have been a completely different experience so it's natural for her to be disappointed
@@wheresmyparade I’ve been going deaf for years. I will remember my favourite songs. I have a brain with a memory.
@@tylerdias8323bet yours isn't
@@Catalina-Winemixeryou can still forget over time 😂
My high school band director was deaf. He had cochlear implants so he could hear, but any time we were about to rehearse he would put this headband on that connected to his temples. I asked him what it was one day and he said the headband was some kind of bone conduction thing that allowed him to hear that he got when he was a kid. The headband caused lots of problems so he eventually got cochlear implants, but the headband was the first thing he ever heard music with, and the implants just never sounded the same, so even all those years later when he was ready to listen to music he had to put the headband on or it wouldn’t sound right. I always think about that.
bone conduction headphones are weird...
Wow! This man's journey must have been crazy .. facing deafness from childhood only to end up as a band director! Must have been a story full of dedication and love for music, I would jump to read his autobiography
@@GhassanB he really was an incredible guy with an incredible life story! I remember him telling me the first time he was able to hear was in 4th grade, and from the moment he first heard music he wanted to be a musician himself. He Immediately started playing the trombone and practiced for hours every day - which is where the problem with the headband came in. The headband vibrated slightly when it heard sound, so him wearing it all day at school and then coming home and practicing loud music made it vibrate so hard that his head would start to bleed. He loved music so much he would play until he physically couldn’t handle the pain anymore. The cochlear implants changed his life because then he could wear them most of the day and use the headband just for music, so it didn’t hurt most of the time. As an adult he had little divots on the side of his head from where he wore the headband all his life.
@@awesomeguysuncle yeah they were super weird. He let some of us kids put it on to see what it was like and I could feel the sound of people speaking around me coming from inside my own skull
@@TheOtherBoobJustDropped thanks for giving more of the story, that's really inspiring! I'm a musician of 12 years and I love music so much It's a huge part of my life, but I can't imagine myself in these circumstances, and I don't believe I would have been as strong and dedicated to grow a passion that I felt so distant from. I'm sure that his class was wonderful, a passionate teacher makes all the difference!
I also played trombone in middle school band, I never stuck with it, but I can imagine how the bell vibrating right by your head can be so effective with something like that head band (also I feel cool for having smth in common with him :D)
There's an amazing movie called Sound Of Metal about this, it really helped me understand. Highly emotional, beautiful film
That movie is awesome
I've got a cochlear.... that movie is really inaccurate. Like really, really inaccurate.
@@ChuckDGard good to know
How are you able to tell? Are you talking about the audio?@@ChuckDGard
@@ChuckDGard In what way? I loved the movie so I'd love to know
Hey! My girlfriends mum had cochlear implants put in about a year ago and she had to re-learn EVERYTHING! But now she hears birds, and can dance and listen to ABBA again! She hated it at first, she got migraines all the time, everyone sounded like "daleks" to her and it was a constant sensory overload. She is doing so so much better, after a horrible turn around when it stopped working after getting ill.
Just here to say I love seeing Doctor Who in the wild
@@Dionnapolakgirl me too
@@Dionnapolaksame
The description of daleks is actually a great one because it is so illustrative
I love daleks and having a few people in my life who sound like daleks would be hilarious... but EVERYONE sounding like a dalek sounds like actual torture
I agree with the adjustments. My buddy had one growing up. Our first concert he was really bummed out cuz of similar issues. He and his parents did some research and found out they can be tuned/adjusted. Next summer at the next concert, he couldn't get enough 😅
This is a nice comment to have read!! I hope she read your comment too!!
@@kristaleeraffaelli5858unfortunately she’s known about this plenty and has hundreds of comments rehashing this same thing- she’s even posted videos of her getting adjustments . the main thing here she’s trying to convey is that sometimes, the sensory overload on the brain from trying to process new sounds like that is too much to handle despite everything you do . Maybe science will understand further in the future but some human factors just simply can’t be accounted for and it’s a frustrating experience she wanted to share .
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Love this comment 🙂
why dont yall just, listen?!
This made me tear up. Hearing live music is absolutely life. Praying youll continue to heal and rock out again
"Sound of Metal" is a great movie to help cope with this. Literally a drummer learning how to cope with being deaf
My dad is deaf, and I’m a music lover and a musician. The passion gap between us has always made me sad, but he has always loved loud bass. If you’ve ever seen CODA he was just like that, bumping rap to make his ass shake. I picked up the Bass as a 13 year old, and my dad can sit on my amp and feel what I’m playing. He even bought me a huge 200w amp for my graduation way back when. So glad I can share my passion with my dad ❤
This is honestly the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read, thank you for sharing.
Lets ve hinest he bought hi.self that amp to enjoy time with you speaking as a dad i buy my daughter shit thats actualy for me all the time its how we get time we put ourself as the path to something you want
That’s awesome. Play him some “Koan Sound” very loud.
Bass is the best instrument
Rhythm section unite!
This sounds the way music from afar at a concert sounds like, like when you're walking towards a live music venue from the parking lot. I hope it can be adjusted somehow and you get to enjoy music again❤
working on it.
Yeh ots annoying then too
I've noticed some who had and lost hearing say this is an issue at first but my daughter who was born deaf and doesn't know what natural hearing is doesn't seem t8 gave the same struggle hers is in other issues. Keep with it and hopefully you will enjoy it again soon. ❤
You do know the music we are hearing isnt showcasing what shes hearing right? Thats literally just the audio from phone she said its sound like beeping to her. Or something like that. Obviously she cant show is what shes hearing.
what she is hearing cant be recorded, you are hearing literaly at the recording shes making, not what shes experiencing
I work in a factory that makes these, it’s really cool to see them in action! It reminds me that no matter how hard or frustrating the work is, that I can help improve peoples’ lives in an albeit indirect way ❤
Your experiences as patients are what medicine progress needs. It’s important that you share this ❤
Just listening as a hearing person, there’s a lot of whine that comes off speakers on live shows that sound to me like the screech everyone knows as tinnitus. That’s probably ruining the sounds on the implant as it’s to high a pitch. You might see if they can tune it to block that upper range of sound out so it’s less messed up? We use equalizers to better balance the range of sounds in music. Apps like Spotify have equalizer options for extra bass or for acoustic & such. Maybe see if there’s any settings that can be created or used for your cochlear maybe? Live music is like nails on chalkboard though since no once knows how to manage it really. They just think loud = nice sounds.
I think this is what everyone means when they are saying she should go talk to her Doctor, they can use a computer to recalibrate the equalizer.
@@Unaligned_Ant yeah, but they aren’t explaining why it’s a problem or what’s probably happening. It’s just ‘go to doctor’. She doesn’t know how a speaker sounds or that the robotic sound is something we experience. Even worse it might be allowing her to hear sounds we can’t because they’re so high pitched.
@@sherlogic1256 I saw quite a few who explained it. But even just the people saying "go to your doctor" are correct, because the doctor will know how to fix it even if the OP doesn't. The doctor who installed/manages the cochlear is an audiologist, so just by simply going to that doctor and saying "music is ruined and sounds like beeps" the doctor will know that the equalizer needs to be re-calibrated.
You're not wrong, but none of them are wrong either.
You're so right about that last part. Live music is almost always too loud to enjoy and the balance of highs lows mids sucks. Like you said they just think louder is better without taking into account that high pitches are the ones that stick out the most.
@@Unaligned_Antshe never said they are wrong. And also, a lot of live music sounds like trash even from artists you like or if it’s a song you love. Especially comparing it to a well produced version of the song. Unfortunately a lot of artists are trash with AMAZING producers working literal miracles for them.
Definitely ask about adjustments! Don't worry, this isn't the end of live music- it's just a really good reason to speak to your audiologist/hearing health professional again! Your quality of life should be their focus ❤
To be honest the auto-generated speech when it said cochlear implant that It meant something else for her
Live music is usually substandard to studio anyway so you're not missing much anyway.
@@nothingsurprisesmeanymore thats the saddest thing ive ever heard and also incorrect. Do you have speakers the size of your body for bass and treble? an engineer live mixing ur songs to sound perfect on ur laptop speakers or 10$ skullcrush headphones. Then, can you enjoy a festival, feel the real life energy etc. like the music is one thing but a live event makes it real. what would club, metal, techno/rave/ orchestra/ rap and so on and so on be without gritty undergound concerts.
sorry m8 ur comment struck a chord
@@nothingsurprisesmeanymore Live music has a performance factor attached to it. The crowd is hyped, the vocalists show their talent live (Maurice White or Axl Rose always sounded better live on microphone), and my favorite - live drums are just awesome with solos, medleys and different drum beats than in studio songs. And that's why people go to concerts...
@@landonsss8114 I am more competent at setting my EQ at home than most FOH engineers at shows I've been to. Live shows don't sound nearly as good as studio recordings.
The experience of being disappointed by live music after cochlear implants is the exact same as the experience of a hearing person attending their first live show. I know people who explore the venue to find where it sounds least muddy, and they spend the whole show in the bathroom or near the loading doors or something.
People don't go to live shows to hear music.
The Sound of Metal is a movie about this very thing. It’s excellent.
yess that’s what i was thinking when i saw this, grateful i could get some understanding of what she was experiencing here because of that film!
My heart goes out to folk who are deaf or blind & any improvements to there quality of life is brilliant
I’m deaf, but went deaf as an adult so loved music. I can’t have CI’s as I’m not allowed the surgery for vascular reasons. I still enjoy live music with BSL interpreters. I can request them for any show and they’re amazing. I can feel the beat from the vibrations and the interpreters fill in the rest. They do so much more than just sign the words, they tell me the emotion and best of the song. They tell me what the instrumental is like (guitar, drum, mixed etc) and also any speaking done too. Shows are still super enjoyable with them
I'm happy to hear you're still able to enjoy that sort of thing. ❤️😁 Keep on keeping on🙂
how do they interpret WAP from cardi b ? o.O
@@everydaycompress4259 I don’t know that song but they’ve done many songs you’d wouldn’t expect they could. They’re amazing and highly skilled
@@everydaycompress4259please, look up sign language interpreters of live music! they're incredibly skilled not only in their speed but also in the emotions they can show through it. for a while, there were a few videos of interpreters at eminem concerts going viral for their energy in their work. i'm sure there's a video of WAP being translated, but if there aren't, maybe try looking the eminem videos up if you're curious!
This is super interesting. I’m super happy that you’re not letting a massive lifestyle change stop you from doing the things you love. Out of interest what are your favourite shows that you’ve been too? (Also replying to that other comment WAP is a song by Cardi B and Meghan Thee Stallion about certain parts of their body to which they describe as quite damp. WAP stands for (I’m gonna use emojis here to try and maintain some dignity) 💦🍑🐱)
Ask about adjustments!! I can't imagine how heart broken you must have felt in this moment, but I hope they can figure it out for you!! I hope you get to hear the music ❤️
I’m getting this comment a lot, of course I’ve gotten it adjusted at the audiologist and even have videos showing me doing so… The brain just can’t magically process sounds it’s never heard and it’s frustrating comments don’t understand that. It’s been almost a year since this video, live music despite adjustments the CI just headache inducing and mushes a lot of instruments/frequencies together. I do enjoy music privately with Bluetooth💜
Sorry you broke your coch :( @@ChrissyMarshall_
@@ChrissyMarshall_it’s difficult for people to understand what a “sensory overload” is, and how overwhelming it is.
@@ChrissyMarshall_ damn, I'm sorry babe, I didn't mean to make things more frustrating. Again, I will never have the ability to understand what you feel, at least not in the near future, I just hoped that my comment might help. After seeing all the comments that say the same as mine, I get that too. But one thing I learned after having babies with special needs, is that science comes a long way, in a short time. I hope they figure it out for you.
@@ChrissyMarshall_Wow. I don't know what you're going through, and I don't think I could comprehend it even if I knew. I hope things get better for you, and I'm sorry that things turned out this way.
My grandfather had one of these, at the begining is hard to recognize music like it was before, but with time your brain learn how to decode it.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ my prayers go out to these people... I am sorry that live music is ruined... that's sad
Im not ear specialist but am a fairly competent sound engineer.
It’s my understanding that your implant will have a set number of inputs channels directly into your inner ear (usually 22, however I assume this depends on the quality of the implant itself), in sound terms this means you’re limited to only hearing 22 narrow bands of the frequency spectrum (likely grouped around the 500hz to 12khz region as this is where almost all human communication will take place.
Now how you might approach improving this limitation.
1. Research how graphic EQ’s work, this is effectively what you have sitting in your ear.
2. Determine whether the channel bands on your eq are able to be modulated to different frequencies (likely not something made easy in order to avoid amateur tampering with the device).
3. If they can you should be able to spread the bands out between a more reasonable music range (50hz - 16/17khz should work nicely, lower frequencies you’ll feel and higher ones will likely distort such a small processor very badly).
Hope there’s something here that helps you.
Sucks your hearings bad, but on the bright side you’ve got a great excuse to learn about audio now which I think is pretty damn cool.
Happy listening.
Fascinating answer. Wow
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You really try to help dude. We acknowledge you!
This is amazing.. you literally brought me to tears and the only thing I can think of as to why I started crying because if you know me I'm a pretty tough chic and it takes a lot to make me cry. I have very thick skin. I like being sarcastic so I dish it but I can take it too! Lol anyways the fact that you have this incredible knowledge that not everyone easily understands frequency and sound and how it works and you genuinely not only explained to make it understandable but then gave suggestions to help make it better for her. Since we are finding out the elites has been lying to us and keeping real education away from the masses. But that's another topic... anyways it was the way the information was given I guess... this is what we need more of!! ❤
Damn bro ur like the hero every comment section needs u explained what was happening were positive and shared a passion all in one comment ion even got bad hearing and I was like shit maybe I can do audio
Hey, I have cochlear implants biannually myself and frequently go to concerts. I even make my own music now! Time and the willingness to learn how to hear with your processor is all you need. You will notice a change, it will not be an instant click though. I’ve had my implants since 2014 and I’ve been putting them on in the morning and leaving them in until I go to bed. I always try to expose myself to new sounds and music when I can. The more you hear, the stronger your new ears get.
One day, live music will sound like you remember
Thats awesome dude
That's beautiful that it eventually sounded like you remembered. How did you achieve that?
Dude I'm sorry I don't know what I expected when I clicked on your channel to find your music, but it actually blew me away! If you hadn't told me you were a deaf artist making music I never would've known. I listened to "through the rain", and it's very pleasing. Hoping for the best for you.
Edit: went back and listened to second chance v6 and love it! Subscribed.
@@bereal8253 aw I greatly appreciate it! My stuff is all over spotify, itunes and tidal. Thanks for checking it out!
@@slax4884 Well I was born Hard of Hearing and always had hearing aids. I could understand music fairly well then but when I lost all my hearing in both ears around the age of 8. I was Deaf without any aid until I was 12, I learned a lot in those 4 years and I vividly remember thinking, "Man, I really miss music. I will do anything to be able to hear a tune again..."
Fortunately, my parents and family helped raised money to get me cochlear implants in both of my ears just so I could hear again. Here I am now making music and chasing a dream of mine to pursue music as a career :)
Those are some of the most beautiful eyes. I hope eventually it’ll start sounding good enough to make her happy
32 years young, never been to a concert and Im blessed with ears. You ain't missing out on anything. Go on the back of a motorcycle, now thats fun.
Yeah.... No CI myself but that's what a friend said, she said music became like..... Robot music. That sucks. :(
It's still better than not hearing at all, only because of some stupid music.
@@naturazpolski9213I feel like that’s for the deaf person to decide, not you
@@ticcy_asexual How do you know that peeson isn't deaf?
@@ticcy_asexualWow rude
@@naturazpolski9213meh music sucks anyway might as well hear when someone's trying to get your attention
Porter Robinson is my all time favorite live performer. I’ve seen two of his shows and they will literally bring tears to my eyes.
POTER ROBINSON MENTIONED RAAAH
his bass shook my being head to toe makes all other artists' bass that performed at that festival feel like paper
Damn my favourite artist too. Language is the song of my funeral.
Porter is the goat
He has a brother called Aaron with a cool UA-cam channel too :D
I have terrible tinnitus, I feel your pain with any hearing issues, sometimes it kinda fades and everything sounds so clear it's overwhelming and brings me to tears
dito! i have three different tones and i can't even remember how it was without them that i even claim to always have had them. and tbh i have no idea, whether it's true or not. but it defenitely feels like it. plus I'm loosing hearing slowly. i can't fathom being deaf and having to hear the tinnitus all day long without any way to get away from it
@@Schrumpelkartoffelalways wear your hear protection and be careful of noises. I have a lot of hearing loss in one ear and recently the ringing started in the other ear and I have hearing loss in it now. Sometimes being deaf in one ear is nice, but I sure do miss the sound of the wind and stereo hearing. After significant hearing loss I have to sort of relearn how to hear again. At first it is no vowels then its the other sounds. I tell people to enunciate instead of speaking louder. It helps me a lot.
so sorry for you, its ok man, everybody gotta struggle with some sh*t.. for me life without proper music would be devastating - u r a true soul and i wish u the best
You’re life is not ruined. I’m 100% deaf and wear the same cochlear implants as the person in the video. I’ve learnt to live with it and the fact I can hear music is incredible. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced music with actual hearing because I was born deaf. Music is awesome. It may be hard to get used to at the beginning but you’ll learn to love your hearing for the better!
Hi there. I am studying to become a music therapist. Can you please tell me why you feel music is awesome? Thank you!
@@graceintheplace13how does music therapy work and what mental illnesses does it treat?
My life is ruined a TBI at birth, made my voice sound deaf even though I’m not
I'm actually grateful that I only have a hearing aid. I used to want cochlear implants but after knowing people who have them that go through this I feel relieved and also bad for them at the same time. I guess it's 50/50 for both.
But I'm happy I can take my hearing aid out when there's feedback or I'm overwhelmed and can just enjoy the music
I tried hearing aids but I have middle ear hearing loss, it sucks ass and I’ve been considering a cochlear for a decade now (I’m 23)
@@banina1836 mine was mastoid bone infection going into the middle ear so it still might be possible
Yeah, I opted for hearing aids myself, they tried to get me to get them but when I said how much I love music they warned me about this. I have reverse slope hearing loss and really no hearing aid sadly is meant for it so it’s been a lot of adjustments and still nothing sounds quite right but it’ll get better!
I don't understand why it's so bad, the live music through the CIs. Is it that she can hear it normally, but before she could feel it & it's just a completely different experience, or something else? I'm just missing what's so disappointing about it & how a heating aid is different, can you explain like I'm five? 😊
@zzevonplant in another concert someone said you can still have some hearing before you get CIs and when you get them you lose what you had so things sound different.
YOU ARE SO AMAZING I AM SO PROUD OF YOU YOU REALLY ARE GODS WORK OF BEAUTIFUL ART 🙏💖🙏KEEP THRIVING !!!!
You guys could turn this into a weekly book club and I'd still tune in. Your commentary and chemistry is just second to none. Looking forward to this series even if I can't be named after a Parental Bond Jolteon in this one! Best of luck fathers!
My mom was one of the first to undergo the first cochlear implant. She had to wear a control box on a belt and change out AA batteries all the time. Technology has come a long way since then. Now she wears the same unit you have. She has to take it off in certain situations like that too. Seeing the technology from where it was to where it is now gives me hope that the next generation will have those problems figured out.
my mom was one of the first too! How awesome is that
My uncle was a celebrity spokesperson essentially for cochlear implants and I remember as a child how many issues he’d have with it. Things have come a long way!
My Father invented hearing
When you say next generation, you really mean the next generation and not the current one. Because the current generation has more air inside their skulls than grey matter. 🙄
@munashemanamike4217 thats literlly imposible though
I had cochlear implants done in 2021, I have two Kanso 2s.
If you’re not hearing better than you used to and if sound doesn’t sound normal after 6 months from your operation, your audiologists did something wrong and you need to go back for tuning.
I’m not sure how it works In the US but I didn’t pay a penny for my surgery and I hear so much better now. After about 4 months of tuning, sound sounds normal and better than it did before (I had hearing aids for 15 years)
What country?
Where are you at since you said you're not in the US?
@@Commenter339 UK
Probably UK.
@@Commenter339 UK
This reminded me to the movie Sound of Metal. It’s sad how many “little” things we take for granted
I got a cochlear implant at 21 and I went to lots of live music events before with two hearing aids, and I agree somewhat. However a few years have passed now and I do appreciate being able to actually talk to friends if they try talk in my ear, and I can hear songs with more clarity.
Being closer to the speakers helps a lot to make it so you can feel the music, and I find watching instruments being played help me a lot too
I imagine it's like when someone records a concert with thier cellphone. The audio recorded always sounds like crap
It's not even that good
@@prdeeremandamn
@@haterule I have single sided deafness. It makes me hear sounds and gives me a sense of direction . It cant compare to the good ear though it's a very unpleasant experience to try to listen to music . I imagine if the other ear goes and I have to have the other ear implant id develop the same appreciation for music cause our brains will adjust to the new signals .Or I hope anyway
@@prdeereman Same! One deaf ear (my left) which is fairly mild hearing loss, but although my hearing aid can give me a sense of ambience, it all sounds like the worst microphone and speaker in existence...
@@silver_crystal if you have any hearing left take care of it cause I wish what I hear was that good . I wish had the the ability to describe the difference . I'm an older man with a very limited vocabulary. Whatever it takes to keep that bad ear at that level do it ! The 2 sounds are different and not even complimentary . I see the value of CI in completely deaf people as total value. The single sided value in my life is strictly to "aid" in a sense of sound direction and it provides some tinnitus relief.
Aww girl I’m so sorry this happened :( there’s all these helpful comments, I don’t have any experience but I feel so bad. I hope you can enjoy music in new ways ❤
Aw that face at the end gave me the feels. Wish I could just give you a hug at that moment ngl
Wow. This is really a mind bender for me as I can't imagine not being able to hear music. I'm hoping you adjust sooner rather than later ❤
This is very sad and the doctor should have very thoroughly explained this (and hopefully did). At best, you're getting a couple dozen of the hundreds upon hundreds of audio frequencies a human can normally hear. As such, tone becomes very hard to distinguish. Bass and timber almost fade together in a sense because the sound processor can only stimulate so many sections of the cochlea.
It's like trying to complete a 100 peice puzzle with only 10 of the peices. You can try and guess what the image is after you're done putting those ten in place, but it'll never be whole. This is why CIs are good for at least letting people communicate in a way they're familiar with but will never be the best substitution.
My hope is to move beyond the cochlear implants and develop a replicant cochlea or at least something that's a very close approximation. Bypassing the natural Cochlea and going straight to the brain will be the best option eventually. The simple fact of the matter is no matter how small our tech gets, full stimulation of the Cochlea, using CI technology, will simply never happen before an alternative is viable.
I hope this helps some people understand a little better what a CI actually sounds like and am by no means diminishing your struggle.
My children have a younger sister via their dad who is fully deaf in one ear and more than 50% deaf in the other ear. She's 4 now and just mainstreamed into a regular elementary school after attending preschool at the Presbyterian Hearing Institute here in our city for 2 years.
She's incredible ... Her coping skills are PHENOMENAL. She speaks mostly clearly (I say that because I believe her lisp is more because her Mom speaks with one then as a result of her hearing.)
My favorite thing about her is when she's done with all the noise ... she takes her hearing aid off, plugs it up, and ignores the world. 🥰😂
Her parents are thinking about getting her a cochlear implant ... and for whatever reason it makes me nervous. She absolutely HATES the doctor at this point ... and I wonder if 1) the procedure is overly and/or unnecessarily invasive and 2) how will it impact her short and long-term.
Your comment helps ME a lot ... we attack the information as far as the children go ... in a village type way in our family. This is good information. Thank you for sharing. Truly.
Oh I kind of get it now, since I don't have a CI and no problem hearing I really struggled to understand what the problem was, thank you.
@CynthiaAgnes-Renfro-mo4xh I'm very glad I could help! 😁 as far as the procedures invasiveness, it is an invasive surgery (medically speaking). However, it's also completely removable with another surgery, so it's not the most invasive thing in the world like Elons brain chips.
The long-lasting implications are there, and I'll list a few along with a website with some more good information. The primary one will be anything passing an electrical current through the body (I.E. those prank gum containers that shock you, Van Der Graaf generator cannot be touched in science class, electro-static balls (the ones that make your hair stand up) are hit or miss but should be avoided, electric fences ect.) Next major thing would be avoiding major bumps and knocks to the head without at least a helmet (martial arts, BMX, contact sports ect.). So both are things you would normally do anyway, but with electrical currents, you do need to be a bit more careful.
This is a UK resource on things you need to either talk to the doctor about when getting the implant or things you need to be careful with when you have one. It's not a comprehensive list, but it's all good info to have before talking to the doctor.
www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/audiology/north-east-regional-cochlear-implant-programme/adults/living-with-your-cochlear-implant/what-must-i-avoid-now-i-have-a-cochlear-implant/
@G0rilla2829 CIs are amazing tools, but they definitely have their short comings. I'm glad I could help a little bit! 😁
"full stimulation of the Cochlea, using CI technology, will simply never happen before an alternative is viable."
This would probably be a good time for you to look up optical CIs.
when I heard clairo singing I got tears, so sad :(
I hope that one day you will be able to go to concerts again
I recognized Clairo’s voice too!!! So sad fr😢
@@lunashootingstar15who or what is a Clairov
@@casedistorted Clairo is a popular Indie artist-singer/songwriter & it’s her singing for like 3 seconds in the last song of the short
what
@@casedistortedclairo is the glorious queen that invented music
thanks so much for making this video it helped me a lot i starting having hearing loss at 21 last year and was feeling sad and discouraged because i am a singer and love to sing
this video helped me a ton❤
Im so sorry and I hear it can get better, so Im just going to pray and manifest that for you every day and check your channel for happy news. This makes me so sad!
Tweak your implant settings with your audiologist's help for concert mode. Look for cool accessories like FM systems or remote mics to amp up your experience. Grab musician's earplugs for safety without losing the music vibe. Choose seats near speakers or away from super loud spots. Let the venue know about your implants; they might have neat accommodations. Cochlear implants are awesome but not perfect. Keep trying these tips with your audiologist for concert success! 🤘😄
Concert mode isn't a thing.
it's new, it can be anxiety inducing & extremely overwhelming. one of my best friends said it takes a long long while, & u may never like it but thats okay! theres always alternatives that can be just as fun 💓
Keep your head up darlin, these good folks are here to remind you that you will get that hearing back one day soon enough. They have been through the same thing. 💪🏼
I never knew about this! Thank you for spreading the message
Damn I teared up and I realized how grateful I am to be able to hear normally…
I hope something satisfies her heart the same way music does because idk what I would do without it. 😭
You didn’t though
@@Solid_Jackson what?
My cousin would play the music through her bluetooth when she went to live shows; she admitted it was a little disappointing not being able to 100% understand what it was like, but she also did say that she felt that as long as she could hear the music and see the show, she was happy. she got really damn good at timing the songs to play when they started playing live music.
Omg you handled this better than i would have. My heart goes out to you.
That’s too bad, I’m sorry to hear that :( prayers 🙏
Woke up about two months ago and didn’t have hearing in my right ear like I used to. I did everything under the sun, saw specialists, took oral and drop meds and nothing. It’s gone. I feel you queen, my heart breaks when I see the pain in your face. Stay strong.
The same happened with my left ear. Profoundly deaf in one ear and the doctor suggested not to go for CI unless my right ear has any issues.
Music is literally what keeps me alive. This video is my biggest fear come to realization. I hope you got those fixed and somehow found a way to enjoy music again.
you see someone crying about not being able to hear music and for some reason you make it about yourself and how you would die without music…….. 0 emotional intelligence
Literally? Lmao. Clown
@@aIysssayou see someone resonate with the poster (empathy BTW) and who also wishes them well in resolving the issue, yet on top of that you make your own assumptions. Who hurt you? Do better.
Watch the movie " it's all gone Pete tong" about a famous dj that goes completely deaf and has to learn how to live his life without music. It's a great movie.
@@aIysssaright, yeah, the person empathising with a stranger has less emotional intelligence than someone dunking on a stranger for no reason. If this is the new you you’ve chosen for this year then send her back we don’t want her
My brother got his when he was very young, it was still experimental at that time. He loves music now as an adult
Music keeps us all alive in our souls.. Your ears and brain will adjust over time and re-teach itself don't lose hope. Wish you a speedy recovery🙏🤍🕊
I lost my hearing when I was 26, however since then I have learned how to interpret the world around me using vibrations. I use vibrations to understand speech, play online games with others, even to know if a truck or someone pulls into the driveway. Other things help, but I have been described as a child when I go to bed. Playing music at night lulls me to sleep like a car ride does for a baby.
I’m so sorry, how did you lose it?
@@NickMothershed They are unsure how it happened, everything seemed to be fine. However, they can't check the nerves. You have what's called the Temponic Membrane past your inner ear, on top of that their are hair cells that stick up. When Vibrations enter the ear, they move the Temponic Membrane against another nerve in such a precise way, and the hair cells move across another nerve creating electrical signals that are sent to your brain telling you what sound is what. My hair cells are laying down, so while vibrations enter and move the Temponic Membrane, the hair cells can't make any signals to send to my brain. The only thing the Dr.'s can agree on, I got shingles at a young age, afterwards my hearing just stopped working. Shingles have a possibility to cause nerve damage. They believe this was the culprit.
Everyone uses vibrations to interpret the world around them, bud.
@@TehButterflyEffect Talk about getting a rise out of someone. It's a bit more complicated for me. Hearing people use a variety of muscles that turn vibration into electrical signals. Unfortunately for me, this muscle doesn't work, so I use my hands and body to feel what's going on around me. Don't be stupid, I have a Masters in Biology, I know what I'm talking about about and how the human body hears sound. I just use my hands instead of my ears
@@HOTAStudioshow did you lose your hearing
Dans les concerts la musique est toujours trop forte et rarement de très bonne qualité ( question audio pas les artistes)
I just want to send a supportive virtual hug to her. Let her know to give herself grace hopefully sooner then later it won’t be overwhelming for her. I’m born with my hearing but I’m sound sensitive live concerts overwhelm me too.
Human's can do unbelievable things when faced with adversity. You'll hear beautiful live music again.
What brand CI? From what I've read, the sound of music can be improved with a great deal of targeted rehab, but outcomes vary. I'm a music lover who was implanted last week. I'm ready to do the work, but also am aware that results can vary greatly between CI users. Hope over time it gets better for you!
Yoo, I'm jealous, thats a Clario Concert?! I'm sad you didn't get to enjoy it
Just what I was about to comment.
Do you know what that last song is?
@@miintcoffee1008 thank you sm
@@niedzisiaj6645It’s Amoeba, it’s absolutely amazing. It’s been my top song on Spotify for the past 3 years in a row and is just beautiful. The whole Sling album is beautiful and I recommend it 100%. If you don’t listen to all of it, my favorites are (amoeba ofc) but also Partridge, Wade, and Little Changes. I’m sorry for the rant but this album is heavenly.
@@squis_sling is so good
When things are going good💕, it’s a sign that even better things are coming 🌷🥰
man it can all be taken away can't it,
when i was born i had fucked up legs, somehow over years ive made a full recovery, doctors weren't sure id be able to walk.
if things were just ever so slightly different maybe i wouldn't have been so lucky.
there are people today who, have all the things that make someone human, they have joy and hope and fears and wishes, but due to cruel fate they can't feel or interact with the world to the full extent, they either have lost some sensory / motor ability or have never been born with it to begin with.
it makes me so sad, and they are always the chillest flipping people mate,
the perserverence, the fucking brass balls it takes to look at what has been lost and say" oh you think i can't? well guess what I can anyway"
Thanks for showing me just your face without explaining anything, I learned a lot
I think I understand how you feel but for a different reason. I recently went to see Hamilton and signed out a t-coil device, and it was defective.
The music was fine but I had zero idea what was going on in the story. I'm a grown ass 51 year old veteran but I was so frustrated I was on the verge of tears. I played with the device and my HAs to see if I could troubleshoot but to no avail.
At the break I got a replacement and my daughter (about your age actually) gave me a recap of the story and in the second half I was actually able to understand and really enjoyed it.
So yea, when you say "Low key devastated"... I totally get that.
The only way to enjoy music that loud is to be somewhat deafened. Ear plugs are a must if you have average hearing.
Your confidence is inspiring.
Is the music too loud now? Or is it just very muddled? I hope in the future theres some solution so you can enjoy Live music again!!
I think it sounds static like. So when u listen to it, it sounds more robotish than human. At least this is what my cousin says who has one. I also do hope in the future they fix this.
@@yourlord5972I have em and I find live music fine. Being near the speakers kinda sux tho
@@yourlord5972I actually have a CI and it will take some time for your brain to get adjusted to the new sound as it’s stimulates sound using electric signals to your cochlea. Especially if you had recently gotten it activated, depending on the person; it will take a few months up to a year and it will start to sound great but not normal.
Afaik i have normal hearing but my very first concert (Jars of Clay aka not that hard) conpletely maxed out my ear drums and I heard was TV static. I had to stand there with my fingers in my ears for 2 hrs. Always bring ear plugs now. So I cant imagine what that would do to someone with implants. Yuck.
All music will sound out of tune. Cochlear implants don’t give full tonal range
not deaf at all but i adore how everybody who can relate in some manner understood exactly the point and has nothing but advice and kind words for her. this is why i fell at my knees when i discovered the deaf community and why i went out of my way to take it as many times as possible before i graduated
man this breaks my heart for you, I hope it comes to you, it must be overstimulating and overwhelming to you, I can't imagine. Sending good vibes that some day it connects and sounds like music to you so you can enjoy it!
Thanks for speaking your truth. Thats heavy. So sad.
Hi there, I'm a musician and performer who sometimes does large concert venues like festivals. I am also hearing and neurodivergent, so I still use ASL and lip reading. I want to know all about how everyone with the implant usually goes about live music, the stimulation that occurs, and where you are/how you feel when the vibes are right and you can enjoy music. Word vomits welcome, I'll read everyone's response 😊 I just want to make sure I understand, maybe someone's response could help me create shows that are safer for the technology you all are working with.
I really hope more people will read this comment!! Hopefully the comment section does it's thing!! ❤❤❤
if I missed clairo's set I would cry too tbh
Real
I'm a Tinnitus and Hiperacusis sufferer the thing is mine is multiplied like 100000x times. I love music, is my life. Unfortunely i cannot perform as i used to but i still try and compose. Never give up no matter the circumstances!
You're a strong woman.
Being someone who relies on music to bring me inner and physical peace, distraction from this shit world, and a sense of comfort, I wouldn't be here like you are.
If music was ruined then Id quit life
This is so sad! I'm a candidate for CI but decided against it when the doc said he didn't know if it would work for me. After hearing this I'm so glad I didn't go ahead with it!
Why do U want a CI if U hear better without one ahhaha xD
I highly recommend talking to people who have been implanted. My daughter was implanted bilaterally and loves music more now.
@@alexanderreiner7694 a person wouldn't be candidate for a ci unless they are severely hearing impaired. For example my daughter had no hearing in her left ear and was losing her hearing in the other ear. She was implanted as soon as she lost almost all her hearing.
Can’t you take the outer piece of equipment off when you want to?
hmmmm something dodgey about this statement
FR MY HEARING AID STARTS SQUEALING AT ME ANYTIME I GO NEAR A MF SPEAKER AT ANY EVENT
My mom got a cochlear when I was 4. My first words she could actually hear me say were “I love you mommy”😊
I'm so sorry love 😓 this is really heartbreaking
My biggest regret with live music is usually buying the ticket in the first place. Ive been to over 200 shows and over 50 festivals and there are less than 10 that i still remember as being completely worth it for the music lol
Damn you must have trash taste or too wasted to remember 😂
But the Ls make em worth it.
Bad regret if You got to over 250 with this complaint in mind.
Just sounds like you're going to wrong shows and festivals 🤔
I got the same mood except I'm not required and quit going to concerts after the 3rd. Good speakers are too cheap to waste time traveling and money on tickets.
I took 2 ASL classes in highschool for a foreign language credit. There we learned about cochlear implants. They do NOT produce a clear sound, they sound very muddy and muffled. What we learned is it is best to get cochlear as young as possible so that way your body and mind adapt easier to the coch
Can't blame that gadget after hearing what was being played... it sounded like shit with or without that thing.
My 12 year old who was implanted bilaterally as a toddler doesn't like music at all really. She likes dancing but not the music itself. She ended up with degenerative hearing loss with auditory neuropathy as a preemie die to the amount of oxygen needed for her survival so she never experienced music (outside of infancy) without hearing aids and then CIs. It was a hard blow to me at the time because I love music but she now has so many ways of expressing herself and her creativity (even with CIs she's still considered profoundly deaf). In the beginning I mourned what I thought should've been but now I realize there was nothing to mourn outside of my own ideals, I have an amazing daughter who is honestly an inspiration to me.
Sorry to hear this for daughter! I have lived my life for 48 years with the same condition but using hear aids with my profound lost. I'm not a big fan of music myself but I have.come to enjoy certain music later in life. We eventually adjust and do our best to fit in though I find myself Solo because either I can't understand what's said or back ground noise is too much. Someday I may have to consider cl doctor tells me I'm destroying the rest of the nerves with the amount of power I need to hear with hearing aids.😢 Hugs and smiles for your daughter!
My daughter has a CI and she said it's sounding better after a few years.
I'm so excited for this channel! I would love to see someone cover "no end house", it's a creepypasta
What is it about these implants that ruin music? Do they distort the pitch so melodies sound wrong?
Patient experiences I have been reading say it can take six months to a year or so for the neuro pathways to adjust to the implants. How long had it been since your surgery?
Over 3 years since she had the implants placed.
I was born with about 50% hearing loss in my left ear. I went to an ent specialist when I was about 12 or 13 and cochlear implants were discussed. Doc said I could start seriously considering them when I turned 18. I’m 23 now and I still don’t have one. Either my hearing has gotten better, (my time around race cars, country bars, and firearms makes me doubt that immensely) or I’ve figured out how to adjust to my level of hearing. But I’m not sure if I still need them. I definitely have hearing damage, I’m probably a lot closer to being deaf in my left ear than I realize, but I manage pretty well. This kinda makes me feel like I shouldn’t.
It took my mother a long time to get used to her cochlear. Live music was her goal. She ultimately goes back and forth from regretting to loving to regretting her decision to get them. Talk to your specialist, they may have a solution.
My buddy is thinking about getting cochlears and he’s almost 40. I think he’s doing it because a lot of people in our extended friends group have them, and not because he wants ir needs them….We go to a LOT of live music. So I love that you posted this
Long story for this question:
If you were given the choice all over again, would you still?
(I’m not deaf, so I’m always curious peoples personal experience)
Poor girl, you can see she is on the verge of tears. Heartbreaking, hope things improve.
Love the explanation on what exactly is happening ❤
Is this sarcasm?
@@TheSergio1021I have no clue what this is myself. Am I supposed to know what a cochlear implant is. Is it like cyberpunk or something
@hymiecamp1559 just use your kiroshi optics to scan it 🤣
@@hymiecamp It's for deaf people
@@hymiecampcrazy how you have the name of it, so you can just put it into google. but seriously, it’s an implant for deaf people
Was the music just bad or did it sound wierd through the implant? Everyone in the comments seems to know what's going on but I'm so lost
I think deaf people are so used to hearing music completely differently (like just the bass and the vibrations) so when they actually hear the actual sound of music it’s hard to process sounds they’ve never heard before and it can just sound like a mess That’s what I got from the comments anyway
The implants are making the music sound like trash....but other people aaid rhere are ways to adjust the implants so its better ...took me a few watches and some comment reading to get this conclusion...but i could be wrong....stay safe everyone! ❤️❤️
Ci therapist/slp here: basically when I have severe hearing loss, many people prefer hearing aids or just sheer volume, as you can still hear all the frequencies that your ear can process, many times lower bass notes and rhythm are perceived more "normally". With a ci u basically reduce all the frequencies you hear to around 20 which makes many things sound robotic, but you get to hear through the whole sound spectrum again, which is amazing for speech, the main target. Music sounds like listening to it through a telephone with very bad reception, just 10 times worse. Music training with CI is doable but usually sits at the very end of your journey, as it's just so many sounds at once and she is from what I can tell not at that stage. Also she might not have access to that kind of therapy as the regulations here are very different, for example here in Germany you get infinite speech/listening therapy, idk how insurance does that in the us, but probably not so you never reach that stage of enjoying the ci. Hope that helps and feel free to ask away
@@thomask3195 thank you so much for providing the perspective of those with implants / hearing aids. It sounds like it's possibly similar to having those really bad cheap earphones. I would be devastated too if the music felt better than it sounds, especially if she had high hopes. Music is such a difficult experience to translate to deaf people (apart from when they can feel it or if they use bone conduction to play the music) - it can be a spiritual experience or one where you want to chuck the whole concept out the window (like if you have sensory issues and the music feels like it's grating against your soul)
maybe an audiophile company like Focal, KEF or Sonus Faber should get into producing those implants. I guess its a huge market.
Ugh, I may be getting hearing aids soon and a cochlea will probably follow soon after. My hearing loss is degenerative. My woman has a cochlea and a hearing aid and she cannot wear her cochlea at all because of the noise level. Everything you’re going through is tough, my partner and I live it every day. Most people will not understand. But stay strong, and good on you for doing so.
One of my CI programs is made just for music. Big improvement but still working on it.
I’m a candidate to get a CI and I’m really confused about getting it and this is one of the small but many questions I have and feel about getting my CI.
My dyslexic ass was wondering what a Coachella implant could be
My wife has implants. It has been a rough trip these past 10 years, but she’s seeing such growth now and what I’ve been telling her for 10 years is, unlike me, my hearing is getting worse, but hers improves every year. New firmware updates, better processors, better software.
It doesn't sound very good to the rest of us either!
Does it sound good to anyone? All outdoor concerts sound so bad.
Dont you speak about clairo like that 👹👹👹