My right ear

[Mucky Beats]

wow ive got exactly the same thing in my left ear !!... it just kinda pops and is kinda like when you go thro a tunnel and sends one side of my head bit num ... it sends me nuts... about 3 months ago i got tinitus which dont help me either ive finally started using my ear plugs which give me a 15 db drop...but there useless to mix with for me as i need stuff to be 100% clear and loud... and so finally i have found a company that do all the major music people and racing car inear plug headphones... gunna set me back £500 but the moulded to my ears and cut out all outside sound and just send me the signal from the mixer...this means im gunna have to learn to mix just thro the mixer with the cue crossed over with the master but at least it means i control all sound going in my ears... does anyone else mix like this as its been driving me mad the damage ive done to my ears and i see this as on option ..unless anyone else has any advise ?

[JamieBall]

wow ive got exactly the same thing in my left ear !!... it just kinda pops and is kinda like when you go thro a tunnel and sends one side of my head bit num ...

Exactly it !

I've had RIPPING tinnitus for years, totally used to that now to the point of not really noticing it. It's real ****ing annoying when u first get it, used to piss me right off lying in bed listening to the varying, wavering hissing/grind LOL.

But aye, this poppin' pressure thing is a lot more gay.

[Numeric]

could just be bad earwax, then again...

i'm totally on top about my ears nowadays, don't have the iPod headphones on loud any more and stay as clear of the speakers as possible when i'm at a club, can't be doing with tinnitus

[JamieBall]

It was wierd when it came on though, there was a ripping pulse/buzz through my brain and I went TOTALLY DEAF for about 1 or 2 seconds, then loadsa bubblin and both ears came back on - the right one totally dead to high freqs :-S

Thought about the wax thing (i've had 'em done b4) but this ain't the same feeling, and I don't think u can get a wax landslide all of a sudden - though I remain open to convincing.

**** it, off down the docs to see what's what.

[Numeric]

hope it's not too serious man, although from what you're sayin it's not lookin good

[Jay Pace]

Thought about the wax thing (i've had 'em done b4) but this ain't the same feeling, and I don't think u can get a wax landslide all of a sudden - though I remain open to convincing.

I used in ear "canal" earphones for ages, and used to get weird things going on with my ears due to wax getting pushed down my ear canal and building up.
Have also woken up deaf in one ear having squashed a wax plug against my eardrum. Was pretty alarming, but bit of olive oil sorted it and cleaned it out.

Would check in with the docs, sounds like could be a combo of a problem then maybe some waxy trauma as well. Chuck in a cold and your ears don't stand a chance....

Proper custom moulded earplugs should cost 150 maximum. Pain in the arse losing them, but better than going deaf.

[JamieBall]

I used in ear "canal" earphones for ages, and used to get weird things going on with my ears due to wax getting pushed down my ear canal and building up.
Have also woken up deaf in one ear having squashed a wax plug against my eardrum. Was pretty alarming, but bit of olive oil sorted it and cleaned it out.

Would check in with the docs, sounds like could be a combo of a problem then maybe some waxy trauma as well. Chuck in a cold and your ears don't stand a chance....

Proper custom moulded earplugs should cost 150 maximum. Pain in the arse losing them, but better than going deaf.

Like I said already, I've lost 2 pairs. Sometimes I doubt if I could find my house keys to escape if the place was in the process of burning down ;-)

[davethedrummer]

Like I said already, I've lost 2 pairs. Sometimes I doubt if I could find my house keys to escape if the place was in the process of burning down ;-)

i've done that too
i'm on my third pair of posh earplugs , but to be honest i don't wear them much
i just duck out of the way of the sound
try not to turn it up too loud
and get out of the club as soon as i can.
i do spend most of my time backstage or out of the firing line of the rig most of the time.
and if i'm really feeling bothered about it , then the earplugs go in , i've always got them.

but the ear popping
well it's funny you should mention that because i get it too
i went to the docs and they just shrugged and told me it was something i'll have to learn to live with.
it's very random and often when i'm somewhere thats quiet
but it has happened in a club too.
don't think it's wax ..well i wasn't in my case cos the doc checked and i was clean
but with the scrunching sounds you're getting it may be different.

and the in ear monitors
no no no!
i would definitely not advise something like that
you're much better off learning to play with ear plugs that cut out the sound and wearing them the whole time your are in the club , than using an in ear monitor
as it's the direct sound being pumped into your ear that ****s it in the first place
with an in ear monitor you'll just be causing the same amount of damage really.


headphones in general are a no-no
look at what pete townsend from the who has to say about headphones.

http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/a...ography/5.html

not much help for us djs
but there you go

there is also tinnitool:

http://www.audiorelief.co.uk/shop/pr...roducts_id=128

maybe we should all chip in and buy one
we could share it and all be tinnitus free by
oh i don't know.......2050 something like that

[BDC]

+1

[Mucky Beats]

deffo go docs man.. everytime i go there like stop djing nowt we can do hahaha ! im like nice one !

yeh im not sure its wax will go get um cleared again...but ive had that done at doctors b4 a few times years ago and im not sure its that as it always comes on back end of too much loud music and like 2 nights ago it had gone and i went on decks and now its back...can wax really move from the sound of the music??

danny are you saying that you do mix just in headphones or that you had advise hehe??

its just im unsure if gettin these inear things im gunna waste £500 wich is loads of money to me... but at same time need to find some way of saving my hearing... its like i worrie that do all mixers have the function to play whats coming out of master and what your cueing up ?? like does the allen and heath have it??

HEAD BLAGGED hahaha

[Barely Human]

You could just demand a sound proofed DJ booth will a small monitor....

[TechMouse]

You could just demand a sound proofed DJ booth will a small monitor....

Yes, and you simply must have diamond encrusted Gucci headphones darling.

[Heroes]

could be glue ear

[DannyBlack]

glue ear

:lol: whats that? Sounds like a pirate name too "Cap'n Glue ear" :lol:

[RDR]

Yes, and you simply must have diamond encrusted Gucci headphones darling.

That reminds me, can i have my Cubic Zirconia butt plugs back please?

[TechMouse]

That reminds me, can i have my Cubic Zirconia butt plugs back please?

If you can get them, you can have them.

Sword in the Stone stylee.

[DannyBlack]

danny are you saying that you do mix just in headphones or that you had advise hehe??

Yeah, I learned to do it that way cos I had a naff soundsystem when I started and at a couple of gigs so I had no choice but to mix in the head phones. I only use 1 to do it though.

If I have good monitors though that don't kill my head then I do it that way for the most part.

[Mucky Beats]

yeh to be fair i lernt with ondeck crossed over into master in one headphone ...but i as time went on moved to just deck coming in in headphones.... but im bit concerned that when i go to all sound in headphnones and not having monitors its gunna be harder... but im confident i can master it and could be really in the zone way of mixing... but one issue i have is im bound to just crank volume and end up with same problems hahaha

[DannyBlack]

yeh to be fair i lernt with ondeck crossed over into master in one headphone ...but i as time went on moved to just deck coming in in headphones.... but im bit concerned that when i go to all sound in headphnones and not having monitors its gunna be harder... but im confident i can master it and could be really in the zone way of mixing... but one issue i have is im bound to just crank volume and end up with same problems hahaha

It is one of those things, just do some practice and you'll pick it right up again. 1 thing though, turn the highs down. Tis the higher freqs that kill my lugholes.

[JamieBall]

its like i worrie that do all mixers have the function to play whats coming out of master and what your cueing up ?? like does the allen and heath have it??

Allen & Heath = FAIL

For me anyways, what's the point of making a mixer that actively despises turtablism ? PFFFFT.

Not sure about the script wi pre/post fade tho. Probably does do it, surely they could at least get that right ?