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Conny
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Posted : Jan 12, 2007 18:06
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Hello Isratrance members !
For a while ago i my left ear started to ache
real bad after using headphones.It lasted some hours then it went away after a while.
The pain was really bad it felt as a needle stuck in my ear and i have never had any problems with my ears before.
I visited a nurse who looked inside my ears she said everything looked fine and she gave me the advice to skip headphones for a while.
Now i don´t use headphones but im really worried because my ears seems hypersensitive to sounds.Now i can even get this pain in my left ear while listening with my speakers at
a low volume.It lasts for some hours then the pain goes away.Anyone who knows what can have happened to my ears.What should i do not to get any further ear damages ?
Maybe the placement of my speaker is to bad
they sit about a halfmeter from my head.
Best regards Conny |
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Tomos
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Posted : Jan 12, 2007 18:09
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Have you listened to loud music for long periods of time or been to lots of parties?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus
It could be permanant damage, give it a break for a while - a couple of weeks, avoid loud sounds and let the ear-hairs stand back up again.
This is a problem for all producers unless you take specific precautions. I myself have some frequency loss in my left ear due to, amongst other things, accidentally standing near a mortar when it went off. (!)
Headphones are best avoided because there is less refernece for volume and the tendancy is to play it louder than necessary.
My tip: mix the bass first, you can play it louder as the ear is more sensitive to high frequencies, then mix upwards in frequency whilst lowering the volume. Occasional overall checks at higher volume should be fine. Don't check your completed track in your car whilst hammering it out.. car stereos are terrible for ear damage (guilty). |
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Freeflow
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Posted : Jan 12, 2007 18:57
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this is something most of us have to experience..
do like tomos said and rest your ears, be in quite places... eat healthy, rest alot..
i know its worrying, but it will pass, but im sure it will come back at some points in life aswell, just rest your ears. and wear a fur hat 
you could also try to meditate and do realx exercises. |
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Sound Surgeon
Crater / Mish-kah
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Posted : Jan 12, 2007 19:12
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On 2007-01-12 18:09, Tomos wrote:
I myself have some frequency loss in my left ear due to, amongst other things, accidentally standing near a mortar when it went off. (!)
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How the hell did you got there accidentally?
I guess those shooting and bombing in the army didnt pay off. i had too much atom bombs and now my ears hurt when the planes fly above the speed of sound.
Use headphones as less as you can!!!!!!
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Allegoric - Psynce
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Posted : Jan 12, 2007 19:28
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On 2007-01-12 18:06, Conny wrote:
Hello Isratrance members !
For a while ago i my left ear started to ache
real bad after using headphones.It lasted some hours then it went away after a while.
The pain was really bad it felt as a needle stuck in my ear and i have never had any problems with my ears before.
I visited a nurse who looked inside my ears she said everything looked fine and she gave me the advice to skip headphones for a while.
Now i don´t use headphones but im really worried because my ears seems hypersensitive to sounds.Now i can even get this pain in my left ear while listening with my speakers at
a low volume.It lasts for some hours then the pain goes away.Anyone who knows what can have happened to my ears.What should i do not to get any further ear damages ?
Maybe the placement of my speaker is to bad
they sit about a halfmeter from my head.
Best regards Conny
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bro this is really sad to hear all this....
i'll just suggest everyone to take care of their ears coz tht's the only medium for all of us in here to get a special feelng of listening music....
well i would like to share something in here....
i'm doing my audio engineering and i remember in my very few first classes our lecturars started telling us that we should not listen to loud sounds as it results to ear aches and can make big loss to ears if continued listening can make us deaf after a long time.....
trust me we also didn't believe all this but it's true that listening loud music can make anyone deaf.
so ppl the best way is to take care of the ears
there are 3 ways of protecting your ears
if you are in a party or anywhere you can really take care of your ears...
i remember there was a topic somewhere on isra abt earplugs.
tht's a very very nice way to protect your ears and there are some special ear plugs too which cut every frequency of every sound by 20dB and are really helpful.
well if u don want to spend much money for this then u can even use cotton . 
but ppl trust me on that i got to know this in my college that the sounds which are present already around us are really loud enough to effect our ears.
so i use cotton sometimes when i go out of my house coz even i feel sometimes that i'll go deaf with all that traffic's sound and horns all the sounds.
another way : if you are in a party just stay as far as you can from the speakers.
please people start taking care of your ears frm naw if u really wanna die peacefully listening to music 
thanx in advance
P.L.U.R
 Truth will always guard our souls......
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Tomos
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Posted : Jan 12, 2007 21:14
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This sounds ridiculous, but it's true. Dehydration damages your ears. I'm not sure exactly why, but it makes sense to stay hydrated anyway. Especially if you've been to or are at a party.
Birds are amongst the few creatures on earth that have the ability to regrow the sensitive hairs in their ears, research into human hearing shows that once your hearing depreciates, it doesn't come back. The hairs in the ear get 'bent down' when listening to high volume, like walking on grass , and it takes time for them to 'spring' back up. If they get stamped on too much, they die.
I've read that they've managed to coax mammal ear hairs to grow back in the lab using drugs.
I think that within the next 20 years or so, it may be possible to have hormone or stem-cell-type treatment to restore hearing. How cool would that be, returning your hearing to new born baby standards, everything would sound awesome and not dulled by age. Currently ear-treatment and restoration science is basically non existant and I think the current generation is going to need help more than any other what with clubbing, ipods and increasing traffic noise (it all adds up)
Berries!! Eating berries I think is good for the ears, it's a kind of super food and I think I read somewhere it can help with semi-permanant damage.
Hell, I try anything to keep my ears healthy. |
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Dharma Lab
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Posted : Jan 15, 2007 18:46
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I have tinnitus, and urge everyone to spend the $$ and get professionally molded earplugs. A few bits of info:
1) Tomos is correct, there is no way to regrow the hairs currently. The other type of hearing loss is nerve damage, which also cannot be corrected.
2) Guidelines say anything over 80 dB can damage your hearing. The louder the sound, the less time you can be exposed to it to avoid haring loss. 80 dB isn't that loud.
Continuous dB
Permissible Exposure Time
85 db
8 hours
88 dB
4 hours
91 db
2 hours
94 db
1 hour
97 db
30 minutes
100 db
15 minutes
103 db
7.5 minutes
106 dB
3.75 min (< 4min)
109 dB
1.875 min (< 2min)
112 dB
.9375 min (~1 min)
115 dB
.46875 min (~30 sec)
3) dB not only depends on how loud the sourec, but how far away you are, and the environment. Closed rooms bounce sound, making it essentially louder. dB drop exponentially with distance, I believe a drop of 6dB every time you double the distance.
4) Drugs will alter your perception of hearing, often causing you to turn the music up. Also, your ears try to protect themselves, closing off, so the same sounds won't seem as loud, also causing you to turn up the music.
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Kaz
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Posted : Jan 15, 2007 18:50
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On 2007-01-12 18:09, Tomos wrote:
I myself have some frequency loss in my left ear due to, amongst other things, accidentally standing near a mortar when it went off. (!)
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How the hell did you got there accidentally?
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I don't think many people do it on purpose, do you?
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xrust
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Posted : Jan 15, 2007 19:30
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i sometimes listen to my heartbeat in my left ear....sounds kind of noised though 
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Jan 15, 2007 21:25
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On 2007-01-15 19:30, xrust wrote:
i sometimes listen to my heartbeat in my left ear....sounds kind of noised though
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Well, i see dead people 
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xrust
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Posted : Jan 15, 2007 21:40
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heheheh i am sirius about the heartbeat though
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Elad
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Posted : Jan 17, 2007 14:33
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FaceHead
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Posted : Jan 17, 2007 16:52
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I got stabbed in the ear with a piece of hard plastic I went to the doctor because I had hardly any hearing in that ear He told me that the only likely way to permanantly damage your ear is by rupturing your eardrum be it through loud noise or stabbing of some sort every thing else will regenerate but a ruptured eardrum will not heal. so im not sure if this is entirely true but thats what I was told. Luckily after weeks of washing out scabs and giving my ears a break I could finally produce again. Even quiet sounds hurt. Apparently I got lucky and wounded the drum without rupturing it. Man drunk people and their stabbing, when will they learn. So ya give them a break and only listen to it loud when you have to! After That incident I became very serious about wearing earplugs at parties granted I wouldnt keep them in the whole time (who wants to hear their favorite act all muffled) but it did give them a break from time to time.
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Tomos
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Posted : Jan 17, 2007 19:32
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On 2007-01-17 16:52, FaceHead wrote:
He told me that the only likely way to permanantly damage your ear is by rupturing your eardrum be it through loud noise or stabbing of some sort every thing else will regenerate |
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While stabbing yourself in the ear isn't going to do it any good, and a damaged eardrum may recover. Continued exposure to loud noise WILL permanatly damage your hearing, no question. See my 'ear hair' comment above.
There are anecdotal stories of people in low pressure environments (e.g. at the top of tall mountains on ski slopes) who have spontaneous 'popping'. Whereby your hearing is restored after a loud pop in the ear. I'm sure this effect is dependant on how the ears were damaged in the first place.
There's no research into it, so don't get into an airlock and pump out the air in attempt to rectify your hearing difficulties |
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e-motion
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Posted : Jan 18, 2007 00:25
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a tip: if you feel pain in your ear or your head (even if it's small) immediatly lower the volume or better yet, stop and have a rest (half to an hour). if something hurst that means that your head\ears are tired and your perception of sound is worst. and also means you're forcing them thus you can damage them.
and don't use headphones ! Pyrex :: Traveling without moving
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