playing loud music/hearing loss
StuffnJunk
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my head was pounding all day from last nights practice
i do believe, basically any time you experience loud noise to the point it hurts or your ears ring, you suffer hearing loss - which is permanent and not coming back
i used to wear headphones listening to a cassette player every single day in high school and college...once i learned about hearing loss, never wore them again....don't own an i-pod
been trying to be careful, but now i'll be deaf as hell, thanks to my band....then again, neil young, pete townshend, etc still have some hearing in their 60's
and i kept saying in practice my ears were hurting, but no one else said they felt the same....maybe my ears are sensitive cuz i had swimmers ear this summer
huh? what?
i do believe, basically any time you experience loud noise to the point it hurts or your ears ring, you suffer hearing loss - which is permanent and not coming back
i used to wear headphones listening to a cassette player every single day in high school and college...once i learned about hearing loss, never wore them again....don't own an i-pod
been trying to be careful, but now i'll be deaf as hell, thanks to my band....then again, neil young, pete townshend, etc still have some hearing in their 60's
and i kept saying in practice my ears were hurting, but no one else said they felt the same....maybe my ears are sensitive cuz i had swimmers ear this summer
huh? what?
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plugs.
pete can barely hear anything.
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1) Never use a full stack. You are better off using a half stack that you are not standing directly next to. David Gilmour did this for years and he still has a great deal of his hearing.
2) If you practice or play in small areas, make your drummer play lighter. Stick pillows in the kick drum and place towels over the toms if you have to.
Everyones different though, depends on the individuals susceptibility and for how loud you are going at it and for how long. The closer you get to your eardrum, the less volume you need to hear because the sound has less distance to travel, and if you are using headphones they are just going over your ear (not inside) so the potential to screw your hearing up is going to be less because the volume is escaping out. Bit of a different story with earbuds, cause all the volume is in your ear canal. When i have my ipod crammed in my ear it's so tempting to crank it up even louder because you can hear the 'outside noises' as well and that's when you can do the damage because the ear bud is closer to the tympanic membrane. (on a side note, is it bad that it actually feels real good when you do jam it in there, like gah get rid of that itch dammit!)
I wear ear plugs nearly all the time now when we're practing up loud. You can still hear everything, and the quality of what we are putting out is not reduced (assuming we are on our game
They cut out certain frequencies for drums and other instruments, which make it a lot more bearable to play/listen when in small spaces or if it's loud. These aren't those cheap foam ear plus either. These are made of rubber/plastic, and actually SCREW into your ear, making sure there's a good seal.
As far as basic common sense...if it hurts, stop doing it. Guess Darwin's Theory will weed you out!
Those are what I use too.
They work damn well.
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