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My hearing was fine until a sound engineer wacked a monitor up so loud in one track that it damaged my left ear. Now I've lost 2000hz off the top end of my hearing in that ear, the one that was nearest the monitor (which was actually not a true monitor at all hence the volume). Rings permanently now.

Wish I'd walked off the stage, might have saved some hz - now it's harder to mix tracks because there are sounds I can't hear on that side.

XOR wrote:My hearing was fine until a sound engineer wacked a monitor up so loud in one track that it damaged my left ear. Now I've lost 2000hz off the top end of my hearing in that ear, the one that was nearest the monitor (which was actually not a true monitor at all hence the volume). Rings permanently now.

Wish I'd walked off the stage, might have saved some hz - now it's harder to mix tracks because there are sounds I can't hear on that side.

Its All Gone Pete Tong

Ashley wrote:

XOR wrote:My hearing was fine until a sound engineer wacked a monitor up so loud in one track that it damaged my left ear. Now I've lost 2000hz off the top end of my hearing in that ear, the one that was nearest the monitor (which was actually not a true monitor at all hence the volume). Rings permanently now.

Wish I'd walked off the stage, might have saved some hz - now it's harder to mix tracks because there are sounds I can't hear on that side.

Its All Gone Pete Tong

Nah, it's not as bad as that lol.

badger wrote:

Ashley wrote: Large up the crew who know about the fried chicken and rice inna da dance.

perfect for getting energy levels back up


check this guy out asleep/passed out on the iration rig. bet he regretted that in the morning lol

How can someone really fall asleep in front of a rig?

looks a bit like me...

nah but seriously i am scared.. of loosing my hearing.. it most certainly has been messed up a bit.. planning on cutting the exposure they get.

just wear earplugs in the dance. I seriously can't believe that people still go out to loud clubs without wearing earplugs.

ThinKing wrote:just wear earplugs in the dance. I seriously can't believe that people still go out to loud clubs without wearing earplugs.

Yeah I don't think I could enjoy myself without earplugs...would be too prang about my ears.

I once forgot my plugs, only realised as I was walking up to the club. Had to get in a taxi and head back to my house to pick them up!

Anyone who is sceptical of earplugs or doesn't like the muffling effect of cheap foam plugs, get a pair of ER-20s. You won't regret it!

Thump Rat wrote:

Battle Gong wrote:

Thump Rat wrote:Two of my mates vomited from the sheer bass of the iration rigs. Thats a fucking testimonial!!! should be on their flyers. :lol:

u sure it was the bass? more likely 2 have been that dodgy 'ital' stew those two funny white rasta blokes sell in the foyer

This weren't at Leeds, it was at the Pinch album party ;) To be honest i think it was a mixture of bass, drink and the bucket full of drugs they ingested upon arriving to the bass weight, fucking amateurs.

Allright....this might be disgustin......so if you re easily offended, stop reading....
Unfortunately, or probably luckily in this case, I was never at the Metalheadz Sessions back in the mid 90ies at Blue Note....
There was this urban legend back then though that even made it over the canal to germany that people in front of the subs on rare occasions started vomiting & losing bowel control on the drop....
giving "disgusting bassdrop" a new meaning...

Out of curiousity and since I just remembered that. I know we got some oldschool londoners n jungle headz on here that prolly went there regularly, can anyone confirm that first or second hand ?

c.

Dubstep_warrior wrote:damaged hearing? The opportunity cost of dubstep if you ask me.

do you actually not care about your hearing?!

alec.tron wrote:

Thump Rat wrote:

Battle Gong wrote:

Thump Rat wrote:Two of my mates vomited from the sheer bass of the iration rigs. Thats a fucking testimonial!!! should be on their flyers.

u sure it was the bass? more likely 2 have been that dodgy 'ital' stew those two funny white rasta blokes sell in the foyer

This weren't at Leeds, it was at the Pinch album party To be honest i think it was a mixture of bass, drink and the bucket full of drugs they ingested upon arriving to the bass weight, fucking amateurs.

Allright....this might be disgustin......so if you re easily offended, stop reading....
Unfortunately, or probably luckily in this case, I was never at the Metalheadz Sessions back in the mid 90ies at Blue Note....
There was this urban legend back then though that even made it over the canal to germany that people in front of the subs on rare occasions started vomiting & losing bowel control on the drop....
giving "disgusting bassdrop" a new meaning...

Out of curiousity and since I just remembered that. I know we got some oldschool londoners n jungle headz on here that prolly went there regularly, can anyone confirm that first or second hand ?

c.

Haha nah i can't confirm but i fuckin wish i could

Someone chuddin theirself in a rave would be the height of hilarity!! Especially if it was like synchronised!! Oh my days!!

alec.tron wrote:

Thump Rat wrote:

Battle Gong wrote:

Thump Rat wrote:Two of my mates vomited from the sheer bass of the iration rigs. Thats a fucking testimonial!!! should be on their flyers.

Allright....this might be disgustin......so if you re easily offended, stop reading....
Unfortunately, or probably luckily in this case, I was never at the Metalheadz Sessions back in the mid 90ies at Blue Note....
There was this urban legend back then though that even made it over the canal to germany that people in front of the subs on rare occasions started vomiting & losing bowel control on the drop....
giving "disgusting bassdrop" a new meaning...

Out of curiousity and since I just remembered that. I know we got some oldschool londoners n jungle headz on here that prolly went there regularly, can anyone confirm that first or second hand ?

c.

Haha, that's an urban myth mate. Saying that, there's some horribly suspect odours in the post smoking ban dances these days so...

Ed G wrote:

ThinKing wrote:just wear earplugs in the dance. I seriously can't believe that people still go out to loud clubs without wearing earplugs.

Yeah I don't think I could enjoy myself without earplugs...would be too prang about my ears.

I once forgot my plugs, only realised as I was walking up to the club. Had to get in a taxi and head back to my house to pick them up!

Anyone who is sceptical of earplugs or doesn't like the muffling effect of cheap foam plugs, get a pair of ER-20s. You won't regret it!

I wish I wore earplugs to fabric

Haha basslines that make you sick

Wel... I think I have been convinced to wear some plugs... still want to be decent at mixing and mastering for at least another decade...

MaximumSolidarity wrote:I'm afraid that since getting into Dubstep my headphones have been damaged; I now have a permanent rattle in the left headphone speaker
Paul

Ha ha, funny me too - I'm a Jungle head too and been rinsing these HP25's for years.

Although something of an urban legend now, this did happen.
At the first Dark Crystal event, with the mighty Sama Roots Sound System, one guy cussed his mate for putting in ear-plugs as the bass started shaking and moved closer to the rig. He promptly started bleeding from the nose. The bass had ruptured a vein!

dubluke wrote:

MaximumSolidarity wrote:I'm afraid that since getting into Dubstep my headphones have been damaged; I now have a permanent rattle in the left headphone speaker.

Chalk up another casualty for the bass.

I will be suing the entire Dubstep community for damages.

You have been warned.

X
Paul

i have a permanent rattle in my ear from all that bass bruv, no joke, i'm pretty sure my hearing has been damaged over the last year or so

damn me and my want to stand RIGHT NEXT to the sub

#

same!

i have definitely felt physically ill before from the gramps rig in brighton.

yet another reason why my mates think i'm mental. vomiting is humanly possible but i haven't seen any.

VALVE SYSTEM! get to close to tht an ur fokd its like stikin ur head out the window ov a plane!

I thought Hitler organised experiments with crowd control by using extremely high amplitude and low frequency bass.

Looking that up I found this:

http://www.lowertheboom.org/trice/infrasound.htm

Which says:
Waves of infrasound are invisible, but slam into living tissue and physical structures with great force.
The sensation vibrates internal organs and buildings, flattening objects as the sonic wave strikes.
At certain pitches, it can explode matter.

EXPLODE MATTER!