Enjoying Loud Music: A Caution for Your Hearing
Playing loud is great fun; it’s the fourth dimension of music: the gut feeling, vibrating floors under your feet, the frequencies coursing through your body… pure ecstasy! Compare it to a rollercoaster hurtling down or looping! What a great feeling! But purely hypothetically, suppose you were to rush through that same loop for 2 hours? Still just as fun (and just as healthy)? In short, excess harms! When you practice and rehearse guitar, turn down the volume! Nothing is as pleasant as rehearsing at a low volume so that you can still hear each other while playing music.
Protect Your Hearing While Playing Loud
If you want to activate the fourth dimension and turn up the volume, wear hearing protection. And not those foam plugs from the pharmacy—get custom-made -20db earbuds that filter the frequencies proportionally. Regular earbuds filter frequencies unevenly, making the sound in your ears unrealistic and unpleasant: for example, high tones are dropped more than low tones, so you tend to set the EQ incorrectly.
Invest in Custom Earbuds
Custom earbuds are expensive, but you only have one pair of ears, and they are irreplaceable. Just read about hearing loss and tinnitus, and you’ll rush to the audiologist for hearing protectors. Hum, whistle, murmur, anytime, anywhere, for the rest of your days! Hearing damage can occur quickly or slowly. You might safely process very high decibels for 30 years without experiencing any problems, but without realizing it, the hearing damage accumulates. One day, you may wake up with irreversible hearing loss or tinnitus. Another example is traumatic, where an accident or sudden high decibels immediately severely damage hearing. In this case, there is a small chance that a quick medical procedure can still remedy it. But still, better safe than sorry!
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