Is there some method, device or even software that can be used to protect one's hearing when involved in monitoring music mixing? Perhaps the system would even know what frequencies and volumes (of those frequencies) are unexceptable without even needing to set the volume yourself....so you would get the best possible "listen" to the mix but without the risk of damage even over a long time. I know it is common sense but I find it difficult to tell and accidents can happen when experiementing. Thanks!
2006-07-02 12:22:50 · 2 answers · asked by chromascope 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Hi! I'm an Audiologist and music lover (and lover of musicians - LOL)
There are the ear-level monitors that many profeccional musician's are wearing these days - they block the amplified sound, but are wired to allow you to hear what's coming through the sound board.
There are also musician's earplugs - they are designed to attenuate sound more evenlyacross the frequencies than standard earplugs so there is less distortion of the sound quality. The filters are available in different amounts of attenuation (e.g. 15 or 25 dB).
Hearing aids, or those hunting devices are able to reduce loud sounds by compression or output limiting -- however, this would result in distortion of the sound quality.
2006-07-02 13:24:35 · answer #1 · answered by HearKat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well I don't know how well this will work but I have a really cool set of headphones for target shooting, they have some thing in them that lets you hear everything as you normally would, like some one talking, but it cuts out all the damaging really loud stuff (such as the gunshots lol), really cool, cost me about $50 or so
2006-07-02 19:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋