So I have tinnitus. Couldn't figure out how to test what frequencies were the problem area until I found this great, simple website (but more on that later).

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

HOW TO TEST YOUR HEARING RANGE:
Put on your BEST headphones and then:

1. Play the default tone given (440hz)
2. Lower volume until you can barely hear the tone at all.
3. Sweep left to right until you can no longer hear the tone at all. Mark the uppermost number down. (left or low frequencies don't matter so much ... most folks don't lose much hearing that end of the spectrum, nor do they affect mixing skills - am I wrong here?)
   THIS REPRESENTS YOUR LOW-VOLUME MINIMUM HEARING FREQUENCY RANGE
4. Reset to 440hz and turn up the volume to the point where it almost starts to hurt (but don't stay there long!) and quickly whip up to the highest frequency you can hear at that loud volume until you hear absolutely nothing. If you're able to at THAT level, turn it up a few notches more and VERY slowly, take the cursor back to the left until you start to hear something and then swing right again until the tone is gone once more.
5. THIS FIGURE REPRESENTS YOUR AT-ANY-VOLUME HEARING FREQUENCY RANGE

NOTE: Feel free to utilize any one of the 4 wave forms (sine, square, triangle, saw-tooth) during the testing ... hardly matters much to me, but maybe for other folks? Could make a difference?

MY RESULTS:
AGE: 54
@ Low-Volume, 14,500hz and above - nothing audible
@ Any-Volume, 17,400hz and above - nothing audible

So what are your numbers/scores?

PLEASE NOTE - this is NOT an official, audiologist approved hearing test. This is just a rough roundabout way of figuring out your upper hearing range and limit.

If you have hearing loss, what do you attribute it to?
Anyone with ringing in the ears/tinnitus? (My tinnitus sounds just like a saw-tooth wave and is in two ranges - 7950-8050 and 5886-5946).
Currently getting the recent 'excessive' tinnitus onset treated with prednisone (25mg day for 5 days with taper after that by 1 tablet a day) and a course of Amoxicillin. Fluid in the ear canal being treated via nasal steroid. Hoping this helps!

How loud should you be mixing? Here's a great guide for both headphone and near-field monitor mixing.
https://www.headphonesty.com/2017/03/5-ways-to-know-that-your-headphones-are-too-loud/

 

Is it normal not to hear anything below 50hz, I assume that is Sub range. I am on 1% Volume though...

Turned my headphones up on my soundcard and can hear just about down to 32.

Now let's try the uppers :P

Even at full volume I can hear much above 16k so I must have hearing loss at 30 lol... nice!

 

I am guessing that part of anyone's hearing loss is heredity (maybe it's not 'loss' so much as mere range?) but I'm guess you've been an iPhone/Android user for much of your 20's and iPods and Mp3 players before that? Headphones will be the death of all the younger generation - no matter how sexy they look in the ads. Just make sure to alternate (from now on) between headphones and monitors. Mixing at LOWER volumes often produces better results and only turn it up to hear the boo-boos and for finalizing touches for short durations.

Normal to not hear sub frequencies. You will 'feel' them though. The frequencies emitted by Sperm Whales are so low and powerful, they stun giant squid with them like a sound-cannon and eat them after the stun.

 

A great free tool for hearing training: https://harmanhowtolisten.blogspot.com/2011/01/welcome-to-how-to-listen.html

 

the headphones and levels used have far too much influence for this test to work.
you need to be in a controlled environment to be able to trust hearing test results, there is no easy/cheap way to do it online from home.
the only way would be to use known and calibrated headphones and amps with a responce that is wider than human hearing, then you would need to calibrate the volume and ensure a quiet room with no influence.

i am lucky enough to not have tinnitus, but ive always wondered if you can tune an oscillator to create beating effects with it, or if the effect will not work.
can anybody confirm if its possible? or if they have percieved it at least. it can never be proven lol

 

Or maybe better still
go to an audiologist and get a proper computer generated hearing test( i do mine every few years cos I have min 80% loss in both ears and almost 100% in one ear)

they will give you a printout of your audiogram so you can see where the loss is and how much.

 

people say I have terrible hearing, but it's only cuz I'm winning so much...