Bad vibes, hearing
@balrogboogie ugh. I can attest, without bass, most music sounds much worse. I miss it a lot. I'm sure you weren't meaning to be accidentally ableist, but oof, this was painful to read. 😅
I can talk more about my quest for having music sound right, but I don't want to bore you with some sob story about hearing tech out of left field. If you're noticing that bass sounds are disappearing from your life, you might want to get checked for otosclerosis.
Regardless, you're not wrong. I can't hear bass guitars properly anymore and it's like there's a piece of my soul that's missing. Maybe not the way you wanted to be proved right, but.... 🙃
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@balrogboogie you're good, though. Your post isn't wrong, it was just hard for me to read. My condition is wildly rare, no need to pull yourself back. Just a leaning experience is totally good. I'd honestly rather you kept it so there's some context for folks.
It's the kind of thing you might cw, but even then the cw would be so strange... Just maybe rephrase next time to, like "if you don't have a bass guitarist, do you really have a band?" or something, idk.
I think you just accidentally got boosted into disability masto context, and it's super reasonable for you to have not imagined phrasing like that could be upsetting. Frankly, it shouldn't be upsetting at all. But modern audiology refuses to process frequencies below 150 Hz (bass guitar ranges), and that just makes this painful for me because technologically, it makes music sound like crap.
Anyways, hi, nice to meet you, I'm Starless. 😅 👋
I promise I'm not always sad about sound. Sometimes I paint things and sometimes I build stuff. It's nice to meet you! 💙
Bad vibes, hearing
@starless Hey I just wanted to say thank you for sharing all this stuff. 💚@balrogboogie
Bad vibes, hearing
@starless oh no, i'm so sorry, i definitely didn't mean it that way but i can totally understand where you're coming from. i'll delete it, sorry again