Who Knew Guitars Were So Loud.

[mongers]

So a few years ago I found out I had an odd form of hearing loss, about one or two people in a hundred with deafness has this type. Turns out it's probably congenital, something I've always had, or I may have lost it to something like meningitis as a child. I tried out a hearing aid, but it wasn't much use so gave up with.

Fast forward a couple of years, and some of my friends are complaining that I really should get my hearing tested, as they're getting pretty board endless repeating themselves ! 

So I recently went for a new test, the good news nothing's gotten any worse, but the better new was I might benefit from some high tech aids. So 3 or 4 weeks ago I went to pick them up and they made a real difference, I could now here quite a bit more, understanding quite a bit more of conversations, music seemed more natural etc.

And on Tuesday afternoon, I went for a check-up/ debrief at the hospital; which was interesting as it mainly involve downloading all the data the aids have been recording and then using this feedback to update the sound modification/amplification the devices use.

And it's been a bit of a revelation as now the enhancement seems dramatically better.  Yesterday I visited a mate of mine, of whom I'd generally have to guess at least 50% of what he was saying, now I'm getting virtually everything he says, even though he's a somewhat softly spoken guy, I can even hear him when I'm not directly looking at him. 

I never knew guitars sound, just So loud, whether live or on cd. I shall have to start attending gigs again and listen to all the music I've acquired over the long years.

Up until now I never knew peoples shoes make all sorts of weird noises, up until know I've only hear the loud clippity-clops made by heavy footed women wearing hard high heels. 

Flooring and floor board creaking is a surprise along with all sorts of more mechanical noises, and the clicking made by using a keyboard is proving somewhat annoying.

On the plus side, I've a whole list of things I need to try out, one of the first of which is birdsong, so I've stayed up especially so I can hear the dawn chorus, and whilst it's something I've have 'heard' before, I gotta say what I've just heard at 4am BST is something pretty special, the complexity and detail is amazing.

So my first 36 hours of hearing approximate normally has been a bit of an eye opener, I was intending to go on holiday for a bit in a few days, but I think I should concentrate on working through my checklist of things to do.


And of course, like with most adult experiences, there's a downside, somewhat hard to explain, especially at this late hour, and probably something some of you won't 'understand' anyway, but when I'm a bit more a live I'll endeavor to explain. 

By the way, I have a feeling this will become, mine and in someway the attention whore thread to end them all ??

[11B4V]

I have a Mesa Boogie F50, 50 watt tube amp, and its LOUD. Especially when my Boss Super Overdrive SD-1 pedal is hooked up.

[mongers]

I have a Mesa Boogie F50, 50 watt tube amp, and its LOUD. Especially when my Boss Super Overdrive SD-1 pedal is hooked up.

I used to have a Gordon Smith Gypsy III, which I used to run through an old Peavy classic tube-hybrid thingy, you know the one you could kick when you playing and so get the reverb springs to clang.

Which of course I'm now wondering what it really sounded like. 

Yes, I always loved Boss stuff, had an old analogue delay that you could get some nice soft sounds out of. 

[garbon]

Interesting.

[Capetan Mihali]

I've had ringing ears since I went to a friend's semi-loud show maybe 6 weeks ago.  Which is troubling, since I used to blow my ears out and recoup in a couple of days max.

[mongers]

I've had ringing ears since I went to a friend's semi-loud show maybe 6 weeks ago.  Which is troubling, since I used to blow my ears out and recoup in a couple of days max.

Yeah that sounds somewhat serious, maybe you should get it checked out, as there are some forms of hearing loss attributed trauma and extremely high sound pressure levels.  I think taking a lot of magnesium or is it manganese can mitigate some of the damage, so it's not necessarily permanent.

And yeah, I also get quite a lot of Tinnitus, but these things seem to quite effectively mask most of that. 

[Eddie Teach]

And of course, like with most adult experiences, there's a downside, somewhat hard to explain, especially at this late hour, and probably something some of you won't 'understand' anyway, but when I'm a bit more a live I'll endeavor to explain. 

You hear a lot of things you'd rather not.

[jimmy olsen]

And yeah, I also get quite a lot of Tinnitus, but these things seem to quite effectively mask most of that. 

Me too, that's the one side effect that I seem to have gotten from the chemo. What exactly are you using!?

[mongers]

And yeah, I also get quite a lot of Tinnitus, but these things seem to quite effectively mask most of that. 

Me too, that's the one side effect that I seem to have gotten from the chemo. What exactly are you using!?

Nothing just the hearing aids, I presume as soon as I take them off, it will be very much more obvious again; that's why I always listen to the radio or only sleep when I'm dead tired so, I never have to sit or lie down in silence, because it soon very much more apparent.

I do know that runs in my family, my mother had it pretty much all her adult life, but from what see said certain food or situations made it noticably worse. All I get is constant low level white/pink noise with random whistles and feedback sounds thrown in.

As for what model/type they are, I've no idea, as it's Socialised Medicine FTW.   

[HisMajestyBOB]

I used to have tinnitus. Turned out it was from compacted ear wax and once the doc flushed it out, everything was okay.

[Brazen]

I'm getting anti-deafness with age. I'm always the one who walks in a room and runs the TV down.

My friends who are too vain to wear glasses amuse me. They say, "How can you see that? I can't, and you wear glasses!"

[Ed Anger]

I used to have tinnitus. Turned out it was from compacted ear wax and once the doc flushed it out, everything was okay.

gross

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I've had ringing ears since I went to a friend's semi-loud show maybe 6 weeks ago.  Which is troubling, since I used to blow my ears out and recoup in a couple of days max.

blowing out your ears doesn't undo the damage taken.
The damage is there, even if you don't notice it. Until the point where you do.

[mongers]

Incidentally one of the things on my list I  ticked off today was to tune and play a guitar; rather interesting experience, sounded very different and there seemed a lot more gaps/silence between the notes.   

[KRonn]

I've had ringing ears since I went to a friend's semi-loud show maybe 6 weeks ago.  Which is troubling, since I used to blow my ears out and recoup in a couple of days max.

blowing out your ears doesn't undo the damage taken.
The damage is there, even if you don't notice it. Until the point where you do.

I have tinnitus, got it about a year and a half ago. I always had a very low amount, barely noticeable. I had to concentrate to hear it, if it was there at all. About a year and a half ago I was testing my home alarm and took one too many blasts of it, and it triggered tinnitus which became loudish. I'm sure the damage is cumulative, and that was just the last straw. But I've always been careful about loud noise, avoided loud noise. Just luck of the draw.

Millions of people have tinnitus. Lots of returning soldiers are being diagnosed with it, so the government is putting a lot of money into researching it.

About a year ago I started using a device from Neuromonics. It play sounds in a way to help accustom the brain to the lack of sounds, geared to the tinnitus, to decrease the perception of it. It's not a sure cure, but it's helped a lot of people to some extent, lesser or more. I'm not getting a huge relief but recently for the last couple of months I do feel it may be better more often.

I also got hearing aids a few months ago. I can hear conversational sounds fine but I lack certain frequencies. I've gotten used to the hearing aids, and really like them. I don't have to strain so much to hear. These are ones that go behing the ear with a thin transparent to the receptacle inside the ear canal. Very hard to see. I could use those because my hearing issues weren't so bad that I needed them for normal sounds. Otherwise I would have needed the ones that sit in the ear itself.

Now though, I hear sounds in music that I wasn't really picking up before! At first I thought the hearing aids might be messed up, but lol, they were allowing me to hear things I couldn't hear so well before.