Lots of good advice here. Seems to me simply going to a concert could cause hearing damage.
It does. I tell people, "We cause permanent hearing loss."
It's not a joke. We do. We sell our audience lasting harm. We're like tobacco tycoons!
Well as a consumer of the music industry and a consumer of the tobacco industry. I thank you on behalf of all us consumers. Life would suck with out either.
We push about 24,000 watts at people, if we're outside. We can go quite a bit louder, but that's adequate. We've got spare stacks and can toss 'em in.
Yeah, you can get a 'sound level meter' for your cell phone - for free. Using that, you can see what the dB rating is and then see how long you can be exposed to it before it causes hearing loss.
They aren't 100% accurate, but they're close enough. We have a fancy one at the booth. They're not expensive, but most folks don't really have a call for one and probably aren't going to buy one. But, most folks seem to have a cell phone and that will do the job well enough for most applications.
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