Earplugs for clubbing...

Earplugs for clubbing...

Anyone got any advice on the best type and where to get them from?? I've noticed my hearing is fucked for an increasingly long time post a night out (especially after Crasher) and don't fancy being deaf by 30!!

I want some like. Expensive for ones that dont make the music sound shit though

No it isn't. Its expensive for the best kind but I wouldn't say that the less expensive ones made the sound shit, unless you're talking really bargain basement ones.

I've always got mine off ebay, although I have noticed a few other places that have them online now (i just can't remember where).

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELACIN-ER20-H...DVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item190064317903

tbf, after about thirty mins your ears will adjust and will, compensate for the loss in hi frequencies thats how the ears work.

you need to get some docks ear plugs, they fit to the shape of your ear and they are see through

They are only a 10er and they are fuckin awesome...

you can get them from that music shop with all the guitars and shit downstairs...cant remember the name of the shop but its right in the centre of town

windows at the arcade

the only time i have ever had hearing problems from clubbing is when we went to see Billy Nasty a few years back at the Uni and the he had the treble eq so highthat I couldnt hear hi pitched sounds for about a week

yeh I got some of them and they really work but they do show so you can look a bit of a div. But playing in bands for years and clubbing have left me unable to follow conversations in pubs when lots of people are talking. And that is really isolating cos you can't keep up with the flow of conversation.
It creeps up on you. don't think it won't happen to you. every time you have ringing in your ears after a night you have permanently damaged your ears a little bit.

the day i realised that my ears were fucked was when i went to crasher and rank 1 awakening was being played... when the main riff kicked in it sounded really wierd and i thought that doesnt sound right... then for the rest of the night and mabey a couple of days later they were still fucked...I have used ear plugs ever since and although my hearing is not the same its certainly a hell of a lot better than it was...my own stupid fault at the end of the day

i recon this has happened to so many people and i bet they carried on going without the protection...I feel sorry for them cos they are going to have serious problems in later life.

Fortunately I only go out clubbing once every few months and then over the last year or so I've been wearing earplugs, but when I go to bed and it's absolutely silent I can hear a faint ringing in my ears, the beginnings of tittinus perhaps? As a result I wouldn't consider going clubbing without earplugs and am really concious about even being in a pub where there is a liveband or whatever just because I love sound!! And I would never want my enjoyment of sound to be compromised because of me going clubbing.

The problem with that is then if you go clubbing with earplugs the night is less enjoyable with the poorer sound quality and I can't bring myself to spend a couple of hundred pound on musician earplugs.

And now I have the means to DJ myself on a fit sound system at home at lower volumes I'm beginning to lean towards reducing the frequency at which I go clubbing. Maybe only a couple of times a year. Which is a shame really

http://www.proplugs.com/

these are your boys... these shown are red but the ones i have are see through

yeh those are the babies

listening to anything over 120db for longer than a few minutes permanently damages your hearing. It is cumulative so you don't think anything is happening for ages. but it is.
I went to Habit one time without the plugs cos I forgot them and the high frequencies were really loud and have had tinnitus ever since. I thought it would go away but it hasn't.

IF ITS TOO LOUD URE TOO OLD

oh dear

you'll be posting as deaf jimmy soon

dead jimi!

i hav no intetion of living past 21 and i reckon if i do live past 21 it will surprise a few people

there's a funny pic somewhere.

Thats not what I'm saying, I currently always wear earplugs, but if you wear earplugs the quality of sound is reduced unless you shell out for some proper musician earplugs. Its not a question of if my hearing is worth £150, more of a question is the extra quality of sound in a club worth £150!?