Bits & Peaces — tinnitus

Are you due for a checkup? Musicians are 57% more likely to have tinnitus than the general public and should get their hearing tested at least once a year.

From high school to NFL football stadiums, the volume is turned up to LOUD. The crowd at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City broke the record at 142.2 decibels. This is as loud as an airport runway and isn't safe for any amount of time. The right move is to protect your hearing and wear ear plugs. 

This article originally appeared on residentadvisor.net.  ***** Tinnitus is a bigger issue in dance music than we'd like to admit. Angus Finlayson lays out some clear ways to prevent it, and to cope with it. Debi Ghose was always careful with her hearing. She has unusually sensitive ears, meaning that being in loud environments without earplugs can be physically painful, and her uncle, an ENT surgeon, lost his hearing on one side from an ear infection, making her "hyper aware of how fragile hearing is." All of which made her doubly alarmed when things started to go wrong. She'd been booked...