Ear's - Our most prized possession. How do you protect them?

Danny-B · 2010-01-28T20:58:15+00:00

After repeatedly saying 'what?' in nearly every conversation, I realized that I may have damaged my hearing from playing guitar and performing in shows. Had...

Ear's - Our most prized possession. How do you protect them?

Manfred-Klose

I always have earplugs with me.
Even when i just go out for the night, you never when there would be a 22'' bass speaker around........

Rene@ i will be joining you in golden circle, but with my earplugs dough.......

21Fretter

It's a pity most of us only realize to protect our ears once they are already screwed. I got myself a nice bit of tinnitus going from the Metallica coke fest a couple of years ago. I just use those general yellow squishy ear plugs for when i play drums or go out. I do have DOC Pro-plugs which are for surfing but they apparently are pretty solid for music as well though.

DonovanB

I always practice with ear plugs now.

I asked Brady Blade this question once at a seminar and everyone laughed at me. He said it was very important to protect your ears (obviously) and that he uses plugs in practice and the in-ear monitroing at gigs helps cos you can keep it at your own level as desired

doc-phil

I use Macks foam earplugs... they're not as good as the custom made ones, but they do claim to reduce the volume by 32dB. I use them whenever I go to any clubs or gigs. It's taken my ears a good year and a half to recover from the last bad experience I had with loud music; and I feel naked without them if there's anything playing louder than a Vuvuzela! My friends laugh at me now... too bad they won't be able to hear me laughing at them when they're 60. ?

FatBoy

I've also caught myself saying "What? Huh?" etc a lot these days. I have booked an appointment with an Audiologist for Monday. Want to get me ears tested and will probably then get earplugs too.

DonovanB

My wife is partially deaf in one ear, I find myself shouting sweet nothings instead.

Its not fun.

IceCreamMan

I have lost hearing in both ears (right side more so) from years of riding motobikes without wearing protection...in the early days no one thought to wear ear plugs. Additionally walkmans on high volumes playing van halen did not help either ...

I now ride wearing plugs and scoping out ear protection when jamming

excellent topic by the way

Riaan

I've also caught myself saying "What? Huh?" etc a lot these days. I have booked an appointment with an Audiologist for Monday.

Every now and then, my wife would say "it's time to have your ears syringed, you don't hear me when I talk". To which I usually reply "there's nothing wrong with my ears, you're mumbling". So I asked a colleague to look in my ears, thinking it was a wax problem. My ear canals were clear, and he sent me off to the audiologist. I have a noticable drop off in the frequencies where speech occur. Probably the result of 30 odd years of working with power tools and some shooting without ear protection. And listening to loud music on my iPod.

And I've never even played in a band... ☹

Garth-S

I recently got myself a pair of Etymotic ear plugs, and wow, they work great. The overall volume comes down without losing the high frequencies. I got them from Take 2.

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The great thing is that getting fitted for custom plugs at an audiologist will (almost certainly) be paid for by your medical aid. And they're the best plugs to get. ?

Danny-B

Stratisfear wrote: The great thing is that getting fitted for custom plugs at an audiologist will (almost certainly) be paid for by your medical aid. And they're the best plugs to get. ?

It's weird having your head filled with that rubbery stuff though ?

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Hahaha, yes. Unless you get off on that kind of thing...

Heath

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