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The irony of this is that if I ever did have an opportunity to really crank an amplifier I'd instantly want to put in earplugs to prevent my hearing getting any worse.
I did a thing with some pals a while back for a charity gig at the Black Heart in Camden. We had to rehearse for a few weeks beforehand so it was back to the rehearsal rooms for the first time in the best part of a decade.
ENTIRELY too loud. ENTIRELY. They give you these hundred watt stacks so of course the guitarist turns up loud, so then the bassist has to, so the drummer has to compete, and before you know it the singer is screaming into the PA at max volume and feedback.
I felt like putting a complaint into environmental health.
ReekBlefs-
loudest show I ever went to was at black heart, I forgot earplugs and had to leave during the first song as my ear drums actually hurt.
Managed to get some from behind the bar and go back in but watching the majority of the audience just stand there watching the whole thing was a second hand pain for their poor ears
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Yes, a small rehearsal room was what I think actually triggered my tinnitus and has slightly blunted my hearing (for speech in acoustically poor settings at least). The problem is that once it's loud everything just gets perceptually compressed so you can't hear any particular instrument over anything else, which leads to everyone playing louder just to hear themselves (I've heard of the same problem in brass band practices too). The answer is just to keep it down or hand out earplugs all round. Now I have some of these, which I've even worn to the cinema and they're really good.
rogan
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The irony of this is that if I ever did have an opportunity to really crank an amplifier I'd instantly want to put in earplugs to prevent my hearing getting any worse.