My ear sucks

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by Relax

anyone try hear-all? i sell this at my work and lots of old folks use it regularly.

yeah looks like a vitamin and folic acid complex booster. food IOW. thumbsup

[lane thaw]

I was so glad to see this thread. I recently had to give up my full time job as the Lead Sound Technician at Harrah's because I didn't want to sacrifice the quality of my work. I also play in bands and noticed I needed monitors adjusted higher than everyone else especially in the higher register. The final straw was going part way through an A list concert with one of the pink noise buttons engaged on the Yammy board. I gave my notice right after that and a Doctor confirmed my loss of high registers in my left ear. Too many years in front of amps. I am 50.

I've been to a few specialist and there is no way to repair the damage.

A few thoughts from someone who has tried it all.

Do not use the wax candles.

Do not stick q-tips in your ears. If you have that habbit, break it.

Go gentle on the water flush and your ears do need some light wax build up. If not, they will get dry and itchy.

If music is your life (like it is to me), and you are young with good ears, take care of them. Like someone said earlier, life goes on, - I'm still working as a full time musician - just keep those monitors hot!

[zimv20]

Originally Posted by lane thaw

Do not stick q-tips in your ears.

aside from the possibility of touching the eardrum, is there any other reason?

[Zeppelin4Life]

Wow. after reading all these posts it made me feel lucky that my problem is so minor. Its bad to hear about your hearing loss but at least it won't get any worse. I wear custom -25dB plugs when im playing in my band always.

[Jay Kahrs]

Originally Posted by Relax

anyone try hear-all?

I've never seen or heard of it before. It looks like it's a supliment of vitamins and antioxidents which you really can't get too many of. I drink at least two cups or three cups of green tea everyday and take a couple different vitamins so I'm not sure that it would do much for me. Some of the better organic teas are great sources of antioxidents and the warmth of the tea helps to clear your sinius out. It's also way better then drinking tons of soda, coffee, beer and whatever else while working. BTW, if your cutting vocals (or just want to be super kind to your throat, and who doesn't want to be?) then adding a little bit of honey to the tea will do wonders, especially if you need to loosen up and hit a note without killing the singer.

At this point I'm drinking a lot less alcohol then I used to and overall I feel and hear a lot better for it. Smoking is pretty bad too, especially if your injesting certain kinds of smoke...I started to notice that while I was doing FOH. Well, I actually noticed a couple of things while doing FOH. It always gets louder and brighter as the night goes on because your ears are shutting down, but their shutting down to protect themselves from further damage. I'd leave it at the same volume, or actually back the house down slightly if the room started to empty out. Nobody wants to get killed with volume...it's a lot of fun at the time but it adds up after a while.

Earplugs always kinda suck, kinda like condoms. They protect your ears and that's worth it but they always change the sound a little bit. Even the custom fit plugs with a 15dB pad (and I tried the sports plugs too) always bump the low-mids and
take some presence out. But, they are clear as hell and I can answer the phone with them in, plus they go in & out like a pair of shoes. It was well worth the $150 or so and there's no way I could've worked live for as long as I did without them. Even still, I'd pop them out every so often during a show for a 'reality check' since most of the people in the audience aren't wearing them. It took a couple months to really get the hang of hearing well with them in, but after five or six years with them there's no way I could live without them! I carry 'em everywhere, around NYC, in planes, the movies, anytime I approach a Guitarget...

[uncle duncan]

A lot of pros do most of their mixing at really low levels. It's easier to hear balance that way. If you can't hear the acoustic guitars in a low level mix, they probably aren't loud enough. Another thing you can do is put a set of small speakers together, side by side, aimed at your good ear. And make a flip switch to reverese the stereo image in your main speakers, so you can make sure the mix isn't coming out heavy on your weak ear side. Get a box, some jacks and a DP DT switch at Radio Shack.
Hearing damage affects people differently. Like sunburn. Some are more prone than others. By all means, protect what you have left. The more damage you sustain, the more susceptible you are to more damage.
On the plus side, you can use bad hearing as an excuse when you're in a boring conversation and your mind starts to wander.

[Absolute]

What









I feel for ya..I've got some problems from 26 years of playing guitar. I can only hear hiss in the cans on one side.

[Frequency]

Zimv20 - yes, there is.

If you use Q-tips you will only push the ear wax further into the ear.

My doctor gave me an advice on how to clean my ears.

Use that Q-tip, but dip it in olive oil and put some in your ear before you're going to sleep.

I'm not joking, it's true. :-)

[zimv20]

Originally Posted by Frequency

If you use Q-tips you will only push the ear wax further into the ear.

i'll confess that i use q-tips every day. i guess i must do it right, because the last time i went to the otolaryngologist, he said my ears didn't need cleaning at all.

interesting tip on the olive oil. is it supposed to break up the ear wax?

[not_so_new]

Originally Posted by zimv20

i'll confess that i use q-tips every day. i guess i must do it right, because the last time i went to the otolaryngologist, he said my ears didn't need cleaning at all.

interesting tip on the olive oil. is it supposed to break up the ear wax?

Yep I believe so, or at least this is what I have heard anyway.

[Shotgun]

Wait wait wait wait WAIT....


In amongst all this talk about too many dee-bee in the megahurts of my ear canal did anyone happen to notice this wank-off has a "wank me chapter 1" sig file with a wank-o-riffic list of all the cool gear mumsie bought him AND A ****ING VIDEO OF HIM PLAYING ALONG WITH A TOTO CD SLIGHTLY OUT OF TIME AND TUNE!?!?!?!?


WHY HAS NOBODY POPPED AN ANYURISM LAUGHING AT THIS SILLINESS????


Anybody wanna see me on video jamming to a CD too? Cuz I got some radical footage of me playin Aeorsmith's greatest hits with all my teddy bears and barbie dolls set up like an audience. I even got one teddy bear to hold a lighter during "Dream On" but unfortunately he died in a tragic accident at the AC/DC show I did the next week.


Sweet Christmas help us all.

~S

[Zeppelin4Life]

Originally Posted by Shotgun

Wait wait wait wait WAIT....


In amongst all this talk about too many dee-bee in the megahurts of my ear canal did anyone happen to notice this wank-off has a "wank me chapter 1" sig file with a wank-o-riffic list of all the cool gear mumsie bought him AND A ****ING VIDEO OF HIM PLAYING ALONG WITH A TOTO CD SLIGHTLY OUT OF TIME AND TUNE!?!?!?!?


WHY HAS NOBODY POPPED AN ANYURISM LAUGHING AT THIS SILLINESS????


Anybody wanna see me on video jamming to a CD too? Cuz I got some radical footage of me playin Aeorsmith's greatest hits with all my teddy bears and barbie dolls set up like an audience. I even got one teddy bear to hold a lighter during "Dream On" but unfortunately he died in a tragic accident at the AC/DCshow I did the next week.


Sweet Christmas help us all.

~S

LOLOL thanks!

have you considered www.recording.org ? Some guys like JP22 are really great at the art of mixing, you might wanna drop him a line!!

oh, and by the way, it's a Toto record, you ****ing idiot. fuuck

[Shotgun]

Originally Posted by Zeppelin4Life

Just because you can't play it doesn't mean you have to hijack my thread.

oh, and by the way,
it's a Toto record (these black things with grooves), you ****ing idiot. fuuck

CD, album, 8-track, wire, reel-to-reel, casette, SACD, DVD-A, wax cylinder, whatever, you still fornicated it up and you've still got TWERP all over you so thick it's dripping into a puddle on the carpet. Hades, you coulda been jamming WITH ToTo for all I know.

And I'm not hijacking your thread. What I really meant to point out is that hell, maybe it's the wax in your ears that makes you miss notes, who knows!?

Maybe it's the wax in your ears that makes you get a hardon for owning certain pieces of inanimate objectification.

Then again, maybe it's the sopping, green wad of half-congealed, buffalo vomit wrapped around the wax in your ears that makes you such a pissant little twerp.

Your thoughts?

~S

[Zeppelin4Life]

my thoughts? LOL. Missing notes??! At least my post count is higher than my age, you talentless wanker !! Im jumping out before this thing hits the ground! Peace!

[Goes211]

Wow...I'm actually impressed. What's your problem with that performance, Shopgun ?

Keep it up, Zep.
Nice Tokai. That bend is out of tune, BTW.
Mwaaaha ha ha ha.

[Zeppelin4Life]

Thanks. I think hes just jealous that I can hardly hear out of one ear and still play a relatively difficult rock solo quite well. Not to sound like an idiot of course. He enjoys playing Eminem covers in Twisted Sister costumes.

[Shotgun]

Originally Posted by Zeppelin4Life

my thoughts? LOL. Missing notes??! At least my post count is higher than my age, you talentless wanker !! Im jumping out before this thing hits the ground! Peace!

ell-oh-ell indeed my little friend. So, when you fire up that ax in public and miss notes and play off-time, do you quickly tell your audience that you've got a really killer post count at GearSlutz and that makes it all better? You friggen vagina. I was playing gigs when you were still suckling at the teat of the sow that bore you, son, I don't wanna hear a dang thing about talentless this or wanker that from some guy who films himself playing solos along with records in his momma's basement. When people look up "wanker" on www.m-w.com they see your video. Certain groups of the "cool" kids at certain high schools already say "Johnny is in the bathroom Zeppelin4Lifing off!" now-a-days. When you get near lesser wankers, they begin to orbit you, caught inside your immense wankerness.

And what's better...the homo doesn't play the WHOLE SONG...he plays JUST PART OF THE SOLO. How wank-a-riffic can one bedwetter be? I'm reminded of a quote from BB King..."I don't know no chords...somebody else gonna haffa play the chords!"


And by the way, Goes211 is a troublemaking rapscallion!!!


~S

[Shotgun]

Originally Posted by Zeppelin4Life

Thanks. I think hes just jealous that I can hardly hear out of one ear and still play a relatively difficult rock solo quite well. Not to sound like an idiot of course. He enjoys playing Eminem covers in Twisted Sister costumes.

No seriously...that's a difficult passage? And you played it quite well? Like...really? No, seriously. Dude, you gotta lay off the crack pipe.


~S

[Zeppelin4Life]

Originally Posted by Shotgun

And what's better...the homo doesn't play the WHOLE SONG...he plays JUST PART OF THE SOLO. How wank-a-riffic can one bedwetter be? I'm reminded of a quote from BB King..."I don't know no chords...somebody else gonna haffa play the chords!"



~S

Exactly! and Last I checked, B.B. King wasn't a talentless wanker


Im sorry I dont have any boss metal zones in my signature for you.

anad
I gotta watch out tho, your post count is approaching your age..actually, i think we passed it now..what are you...9?


hahahahaha you funny !

I would record me playing the entire chord melody of 'Take 5' or 'Esther and Frank' or something, but I don't waste my time on troooooollls.

[Shotgun]

Originally Posted by Zeppelin4Life

I am only 17, what the hell do I know?

This explains your fascination with age, post count and videos of yourself playing along with records.


I bet you're one of those twits that plays every note of "Stairway..." in the Banjo Depot too, ain't ya sonny boy?


~S

[redroom]

wankarific now that's funny

Seems like your a regular comedian! maybe you should consider comedy instead of music! you mongzoid

[Zeppelin4Life]

Originally Posted by Shotgun

I bet you're one of those twits that plays every note of "Stairway..."

~S

nah, I skip notes cuz I got wax in my ear, remember? Don't go into law, politics, public speaking, or air traiffic (and of course music) and I think maybe could maybe make some $ in your life. Maybe. Peace, bro! I am no longer in existance!

you know, trolls usually make me laugh and feel good. you did, but you are probably the lamest troll ever. you give up way too easily!

[iomegaman]

Originally Posted by Zeppelin4Life

nah, I skip notes cuz I got wax in my ear, remember? Don't go into law, politics, public speaking, or air traiffic (and of course music) and I think maybe could maybe make some $ in your life. Maybe. Peace, bro! I am no longer in existance!

you know, trolls usually make me laugh and feel good. you did, but you are probably the lamest troll ever. you give up way too easily!

Trolls make you feel good?


Ahh misery loves company....


Well this explains your totally professional level of training and experience.


I cannot for the life of me understand why someone would post a video of themselves playing so incredibly poorly.

Do you get aroused by your own mom or something, cause there is no reasonable explaination for your total lack of standards.

Dude, getta a life.

[Jay Kahrs]

hahahahaha

You'ze guyz are killin' me!!!

Man, I've heard shortgun rip the banjo (and a couple other stringed instruments) to shreads, he knows his poo.

He also knows to just toss 'em out there, ouch...man...you gotta be fast to hang with that crowd.

Schwing batter batter schwing!!!

[not_so_new]

Where the hell have the mods been for the last couple of days. This place has been sh*t for a week with crap threads like this.

Look man the kid played a classic solo from a great guitar player. Kinda cheesy to put it on a sig but so be it, who am I to judge. All in all not a bad bit of playing at all for a post MTV genreation young'n.

Most guys his age are playing Playstation, watching DVD's or listening to tasteless music not sitting at home working on chops. I give him some credit, he has good taste in guitar players, at least one, and his playing was pretty damn good for his age, hell any age.

When I started playing guitar 30 some odd years ago that is probably how I sounded, you probably did as well so cut him some slack.

Why the hell do people get off on making other people feel bad about themselves? I just don't understand how someone can feel better about making someone else feel bad......

[Jay Kahrs]

Originally Posted by not_so_new

Where the hell have the mods been for the last couple of days. This place has been sh*t for a week with crap threads like this.

Recovering from AES.

Didn't 'ya see those party pics? dfegad

Look man the kid played a classic solo from a great guitar player. Kinda cheesy to put it on a sig but so be it, who am I to judge. All in all not a bad bit of playing at all for a post MTV genreation young'n.

Most guys his age are playing Playstation, watching DVD's or listening to tasteless music not sitting at home working on chops. I give him some credit, he has good taste in guitar players, at least one, and his playing was pretty damn good for his age, hell any age.

Truth.

Either the X-Box has 'em or they're imitating some horrible Scream-O that couldn't play a game of pick-up football let alone an instrument.

At least he knows who Steve Lukeathor is even if I can't spell his name!

[not_so_new]

Originally Posted by Jay Kahrs

Recovering from AES.

Didn't 'ya see those party pics? dfegad

Yeah I figured as much... bunch-a-drunks!!! Probably sleeping it off in an alley some place for all we know.

Truth.

Either the X-Box has 'em or they're imitating some horrible Scream-O that couldn't play a game of pick-up football let alone an instrument.

At least he knows who Steve Lukeathor is even if I can't spell his name!

LOL

[Jay Kahrs]

Originally Posted by not_so_new

Yeah I figured as much... bunch-a-drunks!!! Probably sleeping it off in an alley some place for all we know.

Well, I woke up today and stumbled into the kitchen around 12:30...

"Whuddau doing home?"

"It's Friday, I don't work on Friday."

"Today's Friday!?!?

[not_so_new]

Originally Posted by Jay Kahrs

Well, I woke up today and stumbled into the kitchen around 12:30...

"Whuddau doing home?"

"It's Friday, I don't work on Friday."

"Today's Friday!?!?

LOL.. Funny SH*T man... been there, done that, don't wanna do that again anytime soon......

[Zeppelin4Life]

if anything, this is inspiring. That was about 6 months ago. I should rerecord it, just for you guys or not.