Witterings
Silver Member
I've had d 6 year break from playing but dug out one of my kits just before Xmas and have been absolutely loving playing again.
The only thing is I'd forgotten how bad one of my ears had got and it had improved from not having played for so long.
It feels like when you've got water in the ear and can't clear it or when you’re descending in an airplane and can't balance the pressure ... combined with some ringing although that's not too bad.
If I’m playing normally I put in a pair of hero earplugs and then a pair of protective headphones (no music just sound isolating) over the top and that doesn’t really help much, it’s worse though if I play with a pair of in-ear sound isolating monitors with music going through them and then the ear muffs over the top to reduce the noise level of the drums so the I can keep the level of the music lower but I wonder if it’s the music level going in the ear that it doesn’t like rather than the drums.
I was thinking about getting a set of higher isolation headphones that play music and then something else in the ear to see if that makes any difference.
If anybody else have similar and if so have you found any effective way of managing it and still being able to play … I feel as though I’m at that cross roads of having to decide whether my love of playing is worth the damage it’s probably doing to my hearing or whether to have to give up for good which would be a very sad day.
Any help / input would be much appreciated.
The only thing is I'd forgotten how bad one of my ears had got and it had improved from not having played for so long.
It feels like when you've got water in the ear and can't clear it or when you’re descending in an airplane and can't balance the pressure ... combined with some ringing although that's not too bad.
If I’m playing normally I put in a pair of hero earplugs and then a pair of protective headphones (no music just sound isolating) over the top and that doesn’t really help much, it’s worse though if I play with a pair of in-ear sound isolating monitors with music going through them and then the ear muffs over the top to reduce the noise level of the drums so the I can keep the level of the music lower but I wonder if it’s the music level going in the ear that it doesn’t like rather than the drums.
I was thinking about getting a set of higher isolation headphones that play music and then something else in the ear to see if that makes any difference.
If anybody else have similar and if so have you found any effective way of managing it and still being able to play … I feel as though I’m at that cross roads of having to decide whether my love of playing is worth the damage it’s probably doing to my hearing or whether to have to give up for good which would be a very sad day.
Any help / input would be much appreciated.