Do you regret that you tried to play tough guy I don’t need earplug ear defenders are for pussies. Wrong on many counts!
Trouble with bands and don’t take this wrong. Concerts like live PA should have a new SPL db code implemented!
One any crowd member that stats shouting or yelling is to be thrown off the premises as this encourages other people to start scream and shouting and that’s worse than listening to band! Your ears will be surrounded easily by 100db screaming and shouting yelling and whistling!
Tell me I’m dead wrong.
If the audience remains quiet like as in HUSH!! Till the band finishes each track then appalled afterwards.
This would reduce the hearing loss by many db the band can also play at softer level there’s no need for artificial amplified music to be blearing at over 100db for many hours.
I wouldn’t go near to live PA stage without earplugs and I’d be standing many meters back! Then again I don’t think I want to be near to people who screaming yelling shouting and whistling! A wolf whistle can easily peak at 10 feet at 115dba! That is not healthy for ones hearing!
You can and listen to live real orchestra it’s a whole different thing. It can only reach so loud! But the audience is HSUH! Because what are doing! They’re listening to detail of the performance. With PA its just noise! Overlapping frequencies producing random noise not music, noise!
If each member in the band is trying to out do you then you have an ego issue in the band! It has to be tamed so for fairness for yourselves and the audience listening because tinnitus is no fun at the beach!
I don’t even like high peak middle range frequencies on film soundtracks that are too bright. At home I can re-EQ balance the issue but in the cinema I have to reach for earplugs if it goes too high because, I know now that middle range tones is damaging to the ear. I’ve got my fair share of mild tinnitus that can last for days on end and its enough to put me, so far down in the dumps with deep depression.