Singing with new hearing aids

Sorry for the late reply. Interesting you say that as I tried it the other night and I found it helped a bit. My left hearing aid is more sensitive than my right, so I might try that for a while. Thanks.

I’m not a singer, although I used to sing in choirs way back. But I spend a lot of time getting my hearing aids to sound as good as possible for listening to music and I understand quite well what is likely to be happening.

I think it is very worth while having a music program installed. Your audiologist should have done that anyway if you ever listen to music. The music programme normally has all the unnecessary processing switched off and also turns the volume down so there is headroom for loud music. Another really key point mentioned by other posters is the feedback control. Music consists of tones that can sound like feedback and the HA processing needs to be given some help in recognising what is going on. And another really key point is that any frequency shifting or lowering has to be turned off for music and that must be true for singing too. Any music program is likely to have that off by default.

Lastly I suggest turning the HAs down a bit (it could be that you only need to turn down one or other, rather than both, but it’s worth experimenting.)

Good luck and don’t give up!

Remember Johnny Ray? Circa late forties, early fifties?

IIRC he had some significant hearing issues.