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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:55 pm
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I do like to rock out with my Blues Jr. at fairly high volumes but I only do that once in a while. I really like to play with the volume at a lower level. I find that I just don't enjoy playing for a long period of time with my ears having a sort of piercing feeling. I hope to still hear my music when I'm a lot older.


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I've been using these for a few years now. They're great. You don't lose the high end and they do a great job of db reduction. I'd recommend them to anyone gigging or jamming regularly.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=421214
Yeah I got some of those too
I do wear them if I am playin with a LOUD band
they do help save what's left of my hearing and
I tell people I'm goin shooting after the gig


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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:36 am
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Opening for Clapton? :shock:


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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:46 am
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Yeah Mike the Blues Junior gets very loud if you don't watch it. Often I play in a smallish music room in my house, and keep the volume up usually around 9-10 and the fat switch on to get a good blues tone with my Highway One, and so I have to keep that master between 2-3. In fact, I have to kind of micro adjust it so I get the great Blues Junior tone, without blasting it. Over 3 in that small room and my ears start to feel it. That's with the guitar turned up to about 9 and tone at 4-10 depending on my mood. To get a real clean tone that's really beautiful I can cut the volume to about 6 and cut the fat switch while upping reverb. That drops the loudness and gets some crystalline tone. Good tone at low loudness is what I need to avoid hurting the ears and the Blues Junior can deliver it. Once I build on my bigger music room then I'll be able to turn it up a bit I think.


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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:13 am
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strat--Yeah, this was a while ago when local bands had the chance to open for touring acts. This was literally Eric's first gig in America. I introduced him to Son House and Skip James as they were being managed by a friend of mine in Cambridge, Dick Waterman. In fact, Son was living at Dick's house at the time. Eric went nuts.


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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:18 am
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I am 46 Friday, and I have 24/7 tinnitus. I went to the doc this year, and he humored me by doing the head MRI and everything, but I could tell that he knew what the answer was before we even started looking.

I think he believes my ringing was powered by Sunn.....


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cryingstrat wrote:
I've been using these for a few years now. They're great. You don't lose the high end and they do a great job of db reduction. I'd recommend them to anyone gigging or jamming regularly.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=421214


I bought a set like that a number of years ago at the House of Guitars. They work great. If only I knew where I put them.....


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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:28 am
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O man, Sunn amps are merciless! Well one saving grace is that the high pitched white noise you hear are auditory cells screaming as they die. As you lose them with age, they are no longer able to produce that high-pitched white noise and the tinnitus will diminish. Jeff Beck was considering cochlear implants until his brutal tinnitus diminished with age. The down side is you no longer can hear anything at or above that frequency.

I suspect Eric can't hear anything above about 12k at this point.


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O man, Sunn amps are merciless! Well one saving grace is that the high pitched white noise you hear are auditory cells screaming as they die. As you lose them with age, they are no longer able to produce that high-pitched white noise and the tinnitus will diminish. Jeff Beck was considering cochlear implants until his brutal tinnitus diminished with age. The down side is you no longer can hear anything at or above that frequency.

I suspect Eric can't hear anything above about 12k at this point.


Oh, super. Thanks for that news.

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Where would da blooz come from if not recognition of our own mortality? :wink:


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Oh yes...I most surely be mortal. Things be dying as we speak. Luckily it's a slow process :lol:

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You folks that do have your hearing still intact do all you can to preserve it.

I was actually born with severe hearing loss and have had to wear hearing aids all of my life. That never stopped me from playing loud, but I have one advantage over you... I can turn my hearing aids down when I play and still hear what is being played. This cuts the noise level tremendously.

For those who don't have hearing issues, yet... wear those ear plugs and save your ears. Hearing aids are not cheap, and insurance does not cover them.

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I heard about this Clapton's hearing probelm a while ago. Well it's nothing strange. When you play for 40 (more/less) years it has to happen.


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Pete Townshend says he's loosing his hearing too. I found this quote by him it says:

"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes it's principle proponents deaf."

Being deaf would be horrible!!!! :(

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my father has constant ringin in his ears from driving an open top tractor for years as a kid. WHen i was in college i got a set of molded musicians ear plugs. Flat -3db cut, make a huge difference, i dont play live in them but i do re hearse in them. I am also growing a fondness toward in ears. Our church bought really good ones, and i am enjoying them MY twin in the closet, and i can still get that great tone


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