quoted 4 lines I'm going to the ae show at the El Rey on May 19th and I had a couple of>I'm going to the ae show at the El Rey on May 19th and I had a couple of
>questions. Would you suggest a person who would actually like to listen
>to the music and not just hear the bass wear earplugs? I ask because
>they're kinda silly and uncomfortable.
unless you have professional-quality custom made plugs (about $100),
the sound quality will suffer somewhat, usually losing a bunch of
high end (not bass). but, you know, if it's really blasting loud
sometimes I hear more detail with plugs in. I didn't need them for
most of the Autechre set at Bowery Ballroom, but my ears are
half-fried at this point and I wore 'em for awhile anyway just to
moderate the beating they were getting
anyway...it's a choice between fucking up your ears or losing some of
the immediacy of the music...so i never use them when I don't have
to, and I'm not afraid to put them in if it's seriously loud. people
i know have used all sorts of compromises, like fully plugging one
ear and only using paper in the other, or having one plug tight and
the other loose, or using the plugs only part of the time...I've
plugged my ears with gobs of cocktail napkins of varying degrees of
moisture (wetter=less sound). it sounds insane, but it's this
perennial issue in the modern age...I mean --it IS insane! it's not
like people like to go to movies that are blindingly bright or prefer
cologne that causes asphyxiation but we've developed this taste for
music that kills our ears.
avoid the wax plugs like the plague.
k
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