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I used my new Roger On3 mic for the first time last night with mixed results. The event was a house party with 12 very animated guests - lots of simultaneous conversations, some people sitting, others standing, Using the mic’s pointing feature seemed to work best but the backgroud chatter washed out a lot of what I was trying to hear. Any advice for dealing with such challenging situations?

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Monitoring this post as I am also new to Phonak and the Roger ON 3.

I find that the Roger On is easily overwhelmed in situations such as you describe since it picks up the background noise. It may be helpful in the pointing mode with someone near you in a one on one conversation.

@jfhatfield said:

backgroud chatter washed out a lot

the roger on has the roger on app. you can select the angles and direction of sound you are interested in with the green circle elements.

maybe find other options. play with the sound balance, roger volume your own microphone volume, I guess your own microphones still picked up a lot of chatter. trying to set your mic volume down and roger volume up might help for directionality.

One thing that can help is to go into your hearing aid’s app and change the microphone balance all to the Roger device (essentially turning off the hearing aid mics while connected to the Roger microphone)

When using roger just click the up button on your hearing aids to mute the aids each click more muting.

In reply to @MDB

You can click on the mute button in myphonak app and that will give a little more isolation than reducing the mix to as low as the mix control allows. Any change to the mix will unmute the mics.

WH

In the Myphonak app for the Roger direct adjust the ambient sound to the external mic and that turns down the hearing aids microphones.

MDB and WhiteHat gave some good advice here to try!

What model of Phonak are you using? I had my audi program the Roger in Target so it delivers more ROGER, less HEARING AID MIC. However, as raylock1 pointed out, you’ve hit the proverbial wall in hearing challenges! We all have to deal with that seemingly unsolvable challenge. Many folks here say the Phonak Infiinio and Sphere compensate better for speech comprehension in LOUD places.

But like you, I’ve also been overwhelmed with Roger sound coming at me in LOUD places. The quality of the Roger seems to deliver harsh, almost public-address-style audio, too. Ugh.

I have older Phonak Lumity Life 312 battery aids and I find the best solution is to leave the Roger at home, put my aids into Speech in Loud Noise, and then try to literally position myself facing the person I most want to talk to! In large, noisy gatherings, you can meander about, but being bombarded with a cacophony all night long is simply exhausting,

Let us know what works for you, cuz the holidays toss a plethora of these noisesome functions at us.

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Did you set adjust the Roger setting to use the external microphone only, effectively muting the hearing aids microphones?

In reply to @MDB

@MDB said:

muting the aids by pushing the down side of the left hearing aid button and holding

If I long hold the down button my aid is changing program, and then shutting off if I keep holding. You can had long press down reprogrammed to mute if you like. Successive presses up or down changes the mix by some amount of db. I think Ruth @Zebras discussed it in some technical detail a long while ago. I think clicking mute in the app is totally mute, whereas clicking the mix to the minimum is greatly reduced mix but not entirely muted. That’s my understanding, at least. I welcome informed corrections.

WH

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