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Subject: hearing protection
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Original Message 1/6 10-Jun-01 @ 03:47 AM - hearing protection
For any of you who have never spun on a large club/rave system, you generally have to have your headphones up all the way to *kinda* hear what you are doing. My ears always ring really bad after a gig.
I have heard that Juan Atkins (the grandfather of detroit techno) has suffered hearing loss from his years of spinning and general abuse.
Is there is anything I can do to save my hearing other than to quit spinning?!
Bricks
Message 2/6 10-Jun-01 @ 06:02 AM - RE: hearing protection
anyway, how about a 'weak' ear plug that would still all0w you to hear whats going on while protecting you hearing a bit.
Message 3/6 10-Jun-01 @ 06:07 AM - RE: hearing protection
Message 4/6 10-Jun-01 @ 09:01 PM - RE: hearing protection
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Message 5/6 11-Jun-01 @ 07:31 PM - RE: hearing protection
Message 6/6 12-Jun-01 @ 04:16 AM - RE: hearing protection
Yeah, I almost got a pair of filters made by an audiologist. It was going to cost $130 even after the discount I would have gotten through my school. Ironically I couldn't get up the money because I was trying to pay for school.
See, I think here in the states (at least where i have been) has been a little bit behind in club design in comparison with europe. Almost every "club" I have played at was set up to have bands play. I don't see much as far as actual *dj booths* here. I don't know where you all are and what your scenes are like, but where I am at there are still a lot of paties being thrown in wherehouse spaces woth awful acoustics....
You hear the monitors, the mains, and the delayed reflection off of the back wall. You ar eforced to crank up the 'phones for the reference point you need to pull of the mix. I have seen pictures of european clubs that had plexiglass screens in front of where the dj was. I presume that would help clear the sound up for the dj, and keep crackheads from bunping your turntable.
Someome needs to design a portable fold up clear plexi gobo.
I hope gobo isn't just an american word.....
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