Hearing Protection

[jrisreal]

I always have a high pitched ringing but it's quiet and tolerable and I barely notice. I fear that it will grow worse though, if I ever go to another dr p concert again.

[Ldizzy]

Think you misread. I meant I have had tinnitus for a few years. That cure is still in the testing stage, I think they are still trying to fund it. It acts like a sort of shock so it reprograms what the brain is hearing. We get the ringing as the little hairs inside our ears have been damaged (you probs know this) so the brain transmits it as a sound. This supposedly resets that and stops the ringing. I would be all over it as well if it becomes available. No idea on the specific details as yet though.

oh my bad, thought u were some sort of guinea pig mate

humm ive heard of similar things with chronic pains and ghost limbs and stuff at school (neuropsychology that is) never thought it could be useful for tinnitus !

ill stay tuned and ill try to keep my ears safe for the next 15 years.

[Artie_Fufkin]

I fear that it will grow worse though, if I ever go to another dr p concert again.

[FSTZ]

Reso has tinnitus as well from what i recall.

EDIT : and phil collins haha

I have it too

there is hope.. they are working on a cure

now they are saying it's due to trauma to the ears but it is based in the brain

A Problem In The Brain?

For a long time, doctors thought tinnitus was a problem in the ears. But they now think it's more of a problem in the brain. In the past 10 years, brain imaging has given clues that the tinnitus "sounds" may be caused by a brain that is not connecting its various sections clearly.

Jay Piccirillo, a professor of otolaryngology at Washington University in St. Louis, is trying to reset those brain connections by holding an electromagnet to people's heads.

"We think that perhaps that electrical stimulation just clears away that pathological, or that faulty, connection," Piccirillo says, "with the hope that the reconnections are more normal and more healthy."

Source http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/138163304 ... op-ringing

[FSTZ]

and LOL at the original poster

[Ldizzy]

hey i can def tell it has nothing to do with ear canals and shit...

proof is when i block my ears i still hear it the exact same. used to make me nuts.

[tatty_b_jangles]

Get better plugs... I have got a pair of ER15's, best investment ever, never looked back.

I'm thinking of getting a set of these but I'm in two minds whether to get the ER 15 or ER 25. Do the ER 15s reduce the sound enough? I'm taking a major concern over my hearing now after developing a slight ringing in my ears. I need to be in complete silence to hear it though, so I'm trying to stop it in it's tracks.

[weedhelmet]

The sub frequencies are mostly not even picked up by our ears. An instructor at the school I went to for audio production told us our chest absorbs the bass and vibrates our body and that's how we hear the sub-bass.

Earplugs are excellent for stopping everything else from damaging the cilia.

[hasezwei]

hey i can def tell it has nothing to do with ear canals and shit...

proof is when i block my ears i still hear it the exact same. used to make me nuts.

well that can still mean your ear canals are fucked because they send impulses where there's no sound.
but then again every person has a slight beeping noise, the sound of the blood running thru your ears. i used to fear i might have tinnitus when i was a child because of it, and it prevented me from sleeping on many occasions because the quieter it gets outside the louder it seems.

its comparable to the beeping of our tv, i hate that.

inb4 thats tinnitus

[mymatedave]

I`m 32, I`ve had tinnitus for 7 years now.
I also have pressure issues because of sinus.
I still DJ but no where near to as much as before.
It just got too load.
Plus when you have to turn up your phones to hear over the system, it`s not a good thing.
Waaaay too loud.
Now I produce in shorter stints at lower volume.
Higher frequencies are more of an issue for me during build-ups n what not.
Everything just starts to sound like noisy snow, after the issue I have to equalize my ears.
Once I equalize, I get a weird snow like popping and then it releases.

It all sucks in short.

I think I have the same thing with my sinus'
I constantly have to 'pop' my ears by holding my nose and trying to breathe through it. (like kids do when they go swimming)
The doc said its basically a way for me to even the pressure on both sides of the ear drum as the sinus' are too 'blocked,' so there in an inbalance of pressure causing the eardrum to kind of be 'sucked' in. This makes everything a lot quieter and sound kinda muddy.
By forcing air through my sinus' (popping) it evens it out, but its annoying as hell & makes you look like a crack head!! ha

All the earplugs iv tried so far have been unusable when mixing.
I think im guna invest in some er 15's this week to see if this helps the problem & if not atleast they will protect my hearing.
Consider having that sinus surgery that loads of people seem to have too.
My dad had it years ago and said it made his whole life better, & he's not even involved in music or anything.

[Sharmaji]

whenever i'm on the road i keep a big-ass jar of those bright orange earplugs in my tour box... just grab a pair and get going. by the end of week one, i always have plugs in pretty much every pocket.

absolutely nothing is worth losing your hearing over. i'll take the plugs out when i'm on stage,but for anything else-- plugs in, all the time.

[Artie_Fufkin]

and LOL at the original poster

"Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass."

I absolutely hate that high tone that comes from TV's. And when a motorcycle or eighteen-wheeler drives by on the highway.
I mostly fear the sub bass being the biggest threat to my hearing. I've been using the orange plugs more frequently and nobody notices because my hair covers up my ears!

I've asked this before on another forum, but you do you think stuff outside the human hearing range can damage your hearing? Like under 20Hz and over 20kHz?

[jrisreal]

I dont think those inaudible frequencies can hurt because they dont move the ear drum, thats why you dont hear it. And sub is probably the least threat to your hearing. It takes alot more for a sub to damage than for a high-pitched tone to damage.

[FSTZ]

and LOL at the original poster

"Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass."

I absolutely hate that high tone that comes from TV's. And when a motorcycle or eighteen-wheeler drives by on the highway.
I mostly fear the sub bass being the biggest threat to my hearing. I've been using the orange plugs more frequently and nobody notices because my hair covers up my ears!

I've asked this before on another forum, but you do you think stuff outside the human hearing range can damage your hearing? Like under 20Hz and over 20kHz?