system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is hearing loss like a noise gate (you can't hear quiet sounds), or is it like an overall volume reduction?
gpt
It's a volume reduction, but by different amounts at different frequencies. Usually in noise-induced hearing loss, the high-mid frequencies are lost first, and those provide clarity to speech. As a result, sounds start to become muffled and hard to discern.