General fine tuning hearing aid questions re. frequencies and adding or reducing gain

I have a pair of widex moment sheer, 440. I know my way around the fitting software now, and am ready to try some fine tuning. I’m am a music engineer and producer, so I understand frequencies etc

I think my approach will be this:

  1. Find a problem in my hearing aids to solve, for example, “I can’t hear my wife.” Create a program to address this.
  2. have her talk (or record her talking) so I can analyse at what frequencies her speech lies. I even have computer plugins that show the frequency spectrum, and curve of whatever passes through a studio quality mic into the software, including her voice. I can also use the “in-situ” view in widex software to see what it’s getting and how it’s adding gain at certain frequencies.
  3. either boost those frequencies where her voice lies, or perhaps cut some of the frequencies above and below them.
  4. test new program in conversation, in the real world

Does this make sense?

My main hangup will be how to treat, at any frequency I am fine tuning, the soft, medium and loud inputs - don’t know if I should be ducking or pushing (adding or subtracting gain) equally across all of those inout levels

Anyone that can chime in?

TIA

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