Klarinet Archive - Posting 000235.txt from 2005/03

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bass pick up
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:46:39 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kurtheisig@-----.net]

> Let me give you an example of ARROGANCE:
> We had a local dance band playing in a restaurant with
> room ---if really packed for maybe 150, and possibly 36 on
> the dance floor. The leader, a drummer, one day put mics on
> the sax section and stuck speakers behind our heads. I tried
> to talk this CHILD into shutting off his CHEAP toneless, but
> loud toys with no success. FOOLISHLY, I tried to be
> professional and did not walk off the job. My ears rang for 6
> months, and were in pain MOST of that time. I lost 6 months
> of mouthpiece making and gigs. How my ears EVER recovered I
> do not understand.
>
> Now THAT is ARROGANCE!!!!!

It may be arrogance, but every musician should also own a set of good ear
plugs. The hearing you save will be your own... Eytomotic Research
"Musicians" earplus are fantastic. The sound is the best of any ear plugs
out there and you can get them with 15 and 25 dB cut filters. They sound
good enough that I can play with them and also use them when I mix front of
house on loud events. Spend the couple hundred bucks and get both filters,
have your audiologist make the ear molds and never listen to music the same
way again.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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