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As you get older, most people know your upper hearing frquency limit lowers - I can hear 14Khz, but it falls away pretty sharply above this. Some people exposed to loud noises - music or work type noise have hearing loss too, so when you mix, do you accidentally add too much HF for other people?
This video includes test tones so you can assess if your hearing is compromised, plus some music tracks with HF content with an absolute top limit cutoff starting at a low 4KHz and going up in 2K steps to 20K, so you can hear and see what is going on and assess your own hearing.
In my case, using an app on my phone, I see that 10KHz is visible on the phone, but not at all loud in my ears, then it's back at 12 and 14, before going again. Even if your hearing is good, it shows how we are used to gentle roll offs of frequency, rather than an abrupt cut-off. Try it out and see how you respond to what you are seeing AND hearing. I suggest decent speakers of headphones. I blamed my speakers for the dip at 10K, until my phone app revealed it was present, but I was struggling. Makes all the shouting about hearing protection suddenly important.
Ironically - the audio has a hum, it's not there on the test material, but the studio small speakers didn't reveal it!! SM7B pre-amp had fallen onto the 13A 4 way - a very easy fix! Sorry.